System and method for optimized filtered data feeds to capture data and send to multiple destinations

• US 8,335,793 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Fong, Nathan, Steen, Henrik, Sudanagunta, Srinivasan, Young, James R. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHONG H
• Application Number:
  US12/229,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20100049710A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,579 Days
• Field of Search: 707/758, 707/780, 707/782, 709/238
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

There is provided a system and method for optimized filtered data feeds to capture data and send to multiple destinations. There is provided a system comprising a memory and a processor. The memory has a database associating data feed patterns to one or more of a plurality of destinations. The processor captures data from a data feed having a data feed destination, stores the data in the memory, compares the data feed with the data feed patterns in the database to determine matched patterns, retrieves one or more destinations associated with the matched patterns, and sends the data to the data feed destination and the retrieved destinations. There is also provided a system comprising data feed sources, destinations, a network connected to the data feed sources and the destinations, and a server configured to intercept and route network traffic on the network, the server including a memory and a processor.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring data feeds and directing data in the data feeds to a plurality of destinations, the system comprising:

a memory having a database including data feed patterns, wherein each of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with one or more of the plurality of destinations;

a processor configured to;

capture data from a data feed having a data feed destination specified by a source;

store the data in the memory;

compare the data feed with the data feed patterns in the database to determine one or more matched patterns between the data feed and the data feed patterns;

retrieve one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns;

send the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

send the data also to the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns other than patterns indicative of any destination specified in the data feed by the source;

wherein the database further includes destinations, each destination associated with a desired representation, and wherein the processor is further configured to query the database and convert the data from a defined representation to an associated desired representation prior to sending the data to each associated destination in a destination set comprising the data feed destination and the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the desired representation is one of Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), comma separated values (CSV), Structured Query Language (SQL), or binary data in a defined schema.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the desired representation is a different version or revision of the defined representation.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data feed patterns in the database include a data teed destination of a data feed.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the identifier is a portion of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), a portion of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or an XML Path Language (XPath) expression.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the data pattern within the data of the data feed comprises a string of text, a binary data, and a regular expression.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the data feed patterns comprise an identifier and a data pattern within the data of the data feed.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein:

at least one of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with two or more of the plurality of destinations; and

the processor is configured to;

retrieve two or more destinations associated with the at least one of the data feed patterns;

send the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

send the data also to the two or more destinations associated with the at least one of the data feed patterns.

9. A system for monitoring data feeds and directing data in the data feeds to a plurality of destinations, the system comprising:

a memory having a database including data feed patterns, wherein each of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with one or more of the plurality of destinations;

a processor configured to;

capture data from a data feed having a data feed destination specified by a source;

store the data in the memory;

compare the data feed with the data feed patterns in the database to determine one or more matched patterns between the data feed and the data feed patterns;

retrieve one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns;

send the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

send the data also to the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns other than patterns indicative of any destination specified in the data feed by the source;

wherein the processor is further configured to negotiate an encrypted secure data channel prior to sending the data to each destination in a destination set comprising the data feed destination and the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns.

10. A system for monitoring data feeds and directing data in the data feeds to destinations, the system comprising:

a plurality of data feed sources;

a plurality of destinations;

a network connected to the plurality of data feed sources and the plurality of destinations;

a server configured to intercept and route network traffic on the network, the server comprising;

a memory having a database including data feed patterns, wherein each of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with one or more of the plurality of destinations;

a processor configured to;

capture data from a data feed having a data feed destination specified by a source;

store the data in the memory;

compare the data feed with the data feed patterns in the database to determine one or more matched patterns between the data feed and the data feed patterns;

retrieve one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns;

send the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

send the data also to the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns other than patterns indicative of any destination specified in the data feed by the source;

wherein the database further includes destinations, each destination associated with a desired representation, and wherein the processor is further configured to query the database and convert the data from a defined representation to an associated desired representation prior to sending the data to each associated destination in a destination set comprising the data feed destination and the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the data feed patterns comprise an identifier and a data pattern within the data of the data feed.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein:

at least one of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with two or more of the plurality of destinations; and

the processor is configured to;

retrieve two or more destinations associated with the at least one of the data feed patterns;

send the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

send the data also to the two or more destinations associated with the at least one of the data feed patterns.

13. A method monitoring data feeds and directing data in the data feeds to a plurality of destinations, the method comprising:

capturing data from a data feed having a data feed destination specified by a source;

storing the data in a memory, the memory having a database including data feed patterns, wherein each of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with one or more of the plurality of destinations;

comparing the data feed with the data feed patterns in the database to determine one or more matched patterns between the data feed and the data feed patterns;

retrieving one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns;

sending the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

sending the data also to the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns other than patterns indicative of any destination specified in the data feed by the source;

wherein the database further includes destinations, each destination associated with a desired representation, and wherein the method further comprises querying the database and converting the data from a defined representation to an associated desired representation prior to sending the data to each associated destination in a destination set comprising the data feed destination and the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the desired representation is one of Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), comma separated values (CSV), Structured Query Language (SQL), or binary data in a defined schema.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the desired representation is a different version or revision of the defined representation.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the data feed patterns in the database include a data feed destination of a data feed.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the identifier is a portion of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), a portion of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or an XML Path Language (XPath) expression.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the data pattern within the data of the data feed comprises a string of text, a binary data, and a regular expression.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the data feed patterns comprise an identifier and a data pattern within the data of the data feed.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with two or more of the plurality of destinations, and the method further comprising:

retrieving two or more destinations associated with the at least one of the data feed patterns;

sending the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

sending the data also to the two or more destinations associated with the at least one of the data feed patterns.

21. A method monitoring data feeds and directing data in the data feeds to a plurality of destinations, the method comprising:

capturing data from a data feed having a data feed destination specified by a source;

storing the data in a memory, the memory having a database including data feed patterns, wherein each of the data feed patterns in the database is associated with one or more of the plurality of destinations;

comparing the data feed with the data feed patterns in the database to determine one or more matched patterns between the data feed and the data feed patterns;

retrieving one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns;

sending the data to the data feed destination specified by the source; and

sending the data also to the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns other than patterns indicative of any destination specified in the data feed by the source;

wherein the method further comprises negotiating an encrypted secure data channel prior to sending the data to each destination in a destination set comprising the data feed destination and the one or more destinations associated with the one or more matched patterns.