Method for indexing file structures in an enterprise data system
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1. A method for associating a plug-in with a data file, the method comprising:
- storing measurement data in a data file in an enterprise system, wherein said storing measurement data includes storing meta-data associated with the measurement data, wherein the meta-data describes characteristics of the measurement data;
identifying a plurality of plug-ins for extracting the meta-data from the data file;
for each respective one of the plurality of plug-ins, performing an attempt to extract the meta-data from the data file using the respective plug-in, wherein a successful attempt comprises receiving the meta-data from the respective plug-in of the plurality of plug-ins;
associating a first plug-in from said plurality of plug-ins with the data file based on said performing, in response to a successful attempt using the first plug-in; and
identifying the data format of the data file, wherein the data format is determined by the data format associated with the first plug-in.
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Abstract
A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual plug-ins, which are specific to a given data file format, meta-data for each data store in the enterprise may be indexed in a unified manner. The unified indexing, in turn, provides the ability to browse and query the indexed measurement data without requiring the opening or reading from a source data file.
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1. A method for associating a plug-in with a data file, the method comprising:
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storing measurement data in a data file in an enterprise system, wherein said storing measurement data includes storing meta-data associated with the measurement data, wherein the meta-data describes characteristics of the measurement data; identifying a plurality of plug-ins for extracting the meta-data from the data file; for each respective one of the plurality of plug-ins, performing an attempt to extract the meta-data from the data file using the respective plug-in, wherein a successful attempt comprises receiving the meta-data from the respective plug-in of the plurality of plug-ins; associating a first plug-in from said plurality of plug-ins with the data file based on said performing, in response to a successful attempt using the first plug-in; and identifying the data format of the data file, wherein the data format is determined by the data format associated with the first plug-in. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 15)
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6. A computer system comprising:
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a memory; a processor; and computer-readable code stored on said memory and processable by said processor, said computer-readable code including instructions for causing said processor to; store measurement data in a data file in an enterprise system, wherein said storing measurement data includes storing meta-data associated with the measurement data, wherein the meta-data describes characteristics of the measurement data; identify a plurality of plug-ins associated with a data format of the data file; for each respective one of the plurality of plug-ins, perform an attempt to extract the meta-data from the data file using the respective plug-in, wherein a successful attempt comprises receiving the meta-data from the respective plug-in of the plurality of plug-ins; associate a first plug-in from said plurality of plug-ins with the data file based on said performing, in response to a successful attempt using the first plug-in; and validate the data format of the data file based on the successful attempt, wherein the data format is validated based on the data format being associated with the first plug-in. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A non-transitory computer-readable memory medium comprising program instructions executable to:
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store measurement data in a data file in an enterprise system, wherein said storing measurement data includes storing meta-data associated with the measurement data, wherein the meta-data describes characteristics of the measurement data; identify a plurality of plug-ins for extracting the meta-data from the data file; for each respective one of the plurality of plug-ins, perform an attempt to extract the meta-data from the data file using the respective plug-in, wherein a successful attempt comprises receiving the meta-data from the respective plug-in of the plurality of plug-ins; associate a first plug-in from said plurality of plug-ins with the data file based on said performing, in response to a successful attempt using the first plug-in; and identify the data format of the data file, wherein the data format is determined based on the data format being associated with the first plug-in. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 16)
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13. A method for associating a plug-in with a data file, the method comprising:
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storing measurement data in a data file in an enterprise system, wherein said storing measurement data includes storing meta-data associated with the measurement data, wherein the meta-data describes characteristics of the measurement data; identifying a plurality of plug-ins associated with a data format of the data file; performing a plurality of attempts to extract the meta-data from the data file using the plurality of plug-ins, wherein a successful attempt comprises receiving the meta-data from a plug-in of the plurality of plug-ins; associating at least one first plug-in from said plurality of plug-ins with the data file based on said performing, in response to at least one successful attempt using the at least one first plug-in; and validating the data format of the data file based on the successful attempt, wherein the data format is validated by the data format associated with the at least one first plug-in. - View Dependent Claims (14, 17)
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