SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE DATA MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MACHINES

• US 20180032327A1
• Filed: 02/09/2016
• Published: 02/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eurotech S.p.A.
• Original Assignee: Eurotech S.p.A.
• Inventors: ADAMI, STEFANO, AZZONI, PAOLO
• Granted Patent: US 10,324,711 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2455 Query execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A method and a system for data management in the interaction between machines in a deployed system in which a plurality of devices are made to use a Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform that stores ontologies, wherein the ontologies comprise semantic representation of datasets, the method providing automatic linking of datasets and devices.

Claims

1. A method for data management in the interaction between machines in a deployed system in which a plurality of devices are linked to a Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform that stores ontologies, wherein the ontologies comprise semantic representation of datasets, the method providing automatic linking of datasets and devices;

wherein the method comprises the following steps;

i) initiating, by at least one device of a plurality of devices, a requesting for a dataset, wherein the request is made to the DSB platform and said request includes the ontology of the requested dataset;

ii) redirecting, by the (DSB) platform, the request to a Dataset Link Manager (DLM);

iii) identifying, by the, a matching dataset;

iv) notifying, by the DSB platform, the at least one device with the ontology of the matching dataset, wherein said ontology allows the device to access the matching dataset related data;

v) using, by the at least one device, said ontology of the matching dataset and/or said matching dataset related data to perform an operation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication between the at least one device and the DSB platform is provided by a communication manager, wherein the communication manager implements one or more of a plurality of protocols to communicate with the at least one device operating in the deployment environment and wherein the communication manager utilizes either a Service Oriented Protocol (SOP) or an Application Programming Interface (API) to communicate with DSB.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein ontologies are datasets ontologies and user ontologies, and wherein user ontologies comprise system ontologies, device ontologies and dataset ontologies related to the user application:

system ontologies describe a system deployment specific to the user while the device ontologies describe the different devices being part of the deployed system.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the requesting step comprises:

subscribing, by the at least one device, to user ontologies stored in the DSB;

inserting, by the at least one device, the ontology of a requested dataset into the dataset requests ontology, stored on the DSB platform.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the redirecting step comprises notifying the DLM, by the DSB platform, about the requested dataset by the at least one device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying step comprises:

querying, by the DLM, the dataset ontologies stored on a relational database DBMS and identify the matching dataset ontology to the requested dataset;

inserting, by the DLM, said ontology of the matching dataset ontology into user ontology.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said ontology of the matching dataset comprises a link to the database containing the raw data.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising an automatically upgrading step comprising:

determining, by the Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform, at least one change in a semantic representation of a dataset to which the at least one device is linked;

notifying, by the DSB platform, the at least one device and a developer of the application program software running on the at least one device about said change in a semantic representation of a dataset;

waiting, by the at least one device, for a new application program software version;

updating, by the developer, the application program software to a new version;

inserting, by the developer, a dataset ontology of the new version of the application program software, into the DSB platform;

notifying, by the DSB platform, the at least one device about availability of the new version of the application program software;

downloading, by the at least one device, the new version of the application program software.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising a dataset virtualization step comprising:

initiating, by at least one device of a plurality of operating devices, a request for a dataset, wherein the request is made to the Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform, and the DSB platform facilitating linking of datasets with the devices even if a dataset corresponding to the request is not available in the DSB platform;

analyzing, by a Dataset Virtualizer, existing dataset ontologies, wherein the existing dataset ontologies are stored on the DSB platform;

creating, by the Dataset Virtualizer, a virtual dataset by using at least subsets of the existing dataset ontologies, wherein the virtual dataset is obtainable by direct mapping on subsets of existing datasets or inferred with reasoning algorithms from subsets of existing datasets,

providing, by the DSB platform, the ontology of the virtual dataset to the at least one device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the Dataset Virtualizer uses the semantics representation of the existing dataset ontologies to determine the possibility to create a virtual dataset.

11. A system for data management in the interaction between machines, comprising:

a Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform storing ontologies, the ontologies comprising semantic representation of datasets;

at least one device configured to initiate a request for a dataset, wherein the request is made to the DSB platform and said request includes the ontology of the requested dataset;

wherein the DSB platform is configured to redirect the request to a Dataset Link Manager (DLM);

wherein the DLM is configured to identify a matching dataset corresponding to said request for a dataset;

wherein the DSB platform is configured to notify the at least one device with the ontology of the matching dataset;

wherein said ontology allows the device to access the matching dataset related data;

wherein the at least one device is configured to perform an operation by producing and/or consuming data to/from said ontology of the matching dataset and/or said matching dataset related data, wherein the DSB platform is a software server that at least stores semantic representation of datasets.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein ontologies are datasets ontologies and user ontologies, and wherein user ontologies comprise system ontologies, device ontologies and dataset ontologies related to the user application:

system ontologies describe a system deployment specific to the user while the device ontologies describe the different devices being part of the deployed system.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein a communication manager provides a communication between the at least one device and the DSB platform, wherein the communication manager utilizes one or more of plurality of protocols for providing the communication between the at least one device and the DSB platform.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the protocol between the DSB and the communication manager is one of SOP protocol or an Application Programming Interface.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the DLM is subscribed to the dataset requests ontology, stored on the DSB platform.

16. The system of claim 11, for providing automatic upgrade of application program software running on at least one device, the system comprising:

the Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform configured to determine at least one change in a semantic representation of a dataset;

wherein the DSB platform is configured to notify the at least one device and a developer of the application program software running on the at least one device, about said change in a semantic representation of a dataset;

wherein the developer is configured to update the application program software to a new version;

wherein the developer is configured to insert a dataset ontology of the new version of the application program software into the DSB platform;

wherein the DSB platform is configured to notify the at least one device about availability of the new version of the application program software;

wherein the at least one device is configured to download the new version of the application program software.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one device and the developer are subscribed to the dataset ontologies on the DSB platform.

18. The systems of claim 11, for providing dataset virtualization, the system comprising:

at least one device initiating a request for a dataset related to the at least one device, wherein the request is made to the Dataset Semantic Broker (DSB) platform, and the DSB platform facilitating linking of datasets with the devices;

a Dataset Virtualizer analyzing existing dataset ontologies stored on the DSB platform;

the Dataset Virtualizer creating a virtual dataset by using at least subsets of the existing dataset ontologies, wherein the virtual dataset can be obtained by direct mapping on subsets of existing datasets or inferred with reasoning algorithms from subsets of existing datasets, the DSB platform providing the ontology of the virtual dataset to the at least one device.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the Dataset Virtualizer uses the semantics of the dataset ontologies to determine the possibility to create a virtual dataset.