Method and apparatus for searching and resource discovery in a distributed enterprise system

• US 7,949,660 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2009
• Issued: 05/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Green, Stephen J., Lamere, Paul B., Haberl, Karl R., Alexander, Jeffrey L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Wilson
• Application Number:
  US12/557,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327250A1
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 707737-740, 707708-712, 709224-228, 705/14.14, 705/14.27
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for searching and resource discovery in a distributed enterprise (DE), the method including: generating a first classifier for a first repository in the DE; generating a second classifier for a second repository in the DE, where the second classifier has a vector element identifying a location of the second repository; submitting a copy of the second classifier to a web server of the first repository; obtaining a resource at the first repository after submitting the copy of the second classifier; matching the resource to the copy of a second classifier; sending a copy of the resource to the second repository using the vector element; and storing the copy of the resource in the second repository.

Claims

1. A method for searching and resource discovery in a distributed enterprise, the method comprising:

generating a first classifier for a first repository in the distributed enterprise;

generating a second classifier for a second repository in the distributed enterprise, wherein the second classifier comprises a vector element identifying a location of the second repository;

submitting a copy of the second classifier to a web server of the first repository;

obtaining a resource at the first repository after submitting the copy of the second classifier;

matching the resource to the copy of a second classifier;

sending a copy of the resource to the second repository using the vector element; and

storing the copy of the resource in the second repository.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

indexing the copy of the resource at the second repository after storing the copy.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

notifying the first repository that a copy of the resource is stored in the second repository.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

posting a notification to a public distribution area after the copy of the resource is stored in the second repository; and

polling the public distribution area to discover based on the notification that the copy of the resource is added to the second repository.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the vector element identifying the location of the second repository after generating the second classifier; and

inserting the vector element into the second classifier.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the vector element is a uniform resource identifier (URI).

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a classifier tree for the second repository from all classifiers that are generated for the second repository and for all classifiers submitted to the second repository by other repositories; and

comparing the copy of the resource to the classifier tree.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

matching the copy of the resource to the second classifier based on a dot product comparison of a weighted feature vector representation of the resource and the second classifier.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a comparison between the resource and the first classifier after obtaining the resource at the first repository; and

identifying a mismatch based on the comparison.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

comparing a copy of the resource with a copy of the first classifier in the second repository prior to storing the copy of the resource.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

submitting a copy of the first classifier from the first repository to a web server of the second repository prior to obtaining the resource at the first repository.

12. A system for searching and resource discovery in a distributed enterprise comprising:

a processor;

a memory operatively connected to the processor and storing instructions comprising functionality to;

generate a first classifier for a first repository in the distributed enterprise;

generate a second classifier for a second repository in the distributed enterprise, wherein the second classifier comprises a vector element identifying a location of the second repository;

submit a copy of the second classifier to a web server of the first repository;

obtain a resource at the first repository after submitting the copy of the second classifier;

match the resource to the copy of a second classifier;

send a copy of the resource to the second repository using the vector element; and

store the copy of the resource in the second repository.

13. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

index the copy of the resource at the second repository after storing the copy.

14. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

notify the first repository that a copy of the resource is stored in the second repository.

15. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

post a notification to a public distribution area after the copy of the resource is stored in the second repository; and

poll the public distribution area to discover based on the notification that the copy of the resource is added to the second repository.

16. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

generate the vector element identifying the location of the second repository after generating the second classifier; and

insert the vector element into the second classifier.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the vector element is a uniform resource identifier (URI).

18. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

generate a classifier tree for the second repository from all classifiers that are generated for the second repository and for all classifiers submitted to the second repository by other repositories; and

compare the copy of the resource to the classifier tree.

19. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

match the copy of the resource to the second classifier based on a dot product comparison of a weighted feature vector representation of the resource and the second classifier.

20. The system of claim 12, the instructions further comprising functionality to:

generate a comparison between the resource and the first classifier after obtaining the resource at the first repository; and

identify a mismatch based on the comparison.