Integrated environment for developing information exchanges

• US 8,769,480 B1
• Filed: 07/11/2013
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crossflo Systems, Inc. (Patriot Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Crossflow Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Wagner, Winfield J., Toto, Andrew P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bullock, Jr., Lewis A
• Assistant Examiner(s): APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER
• Application Number:
  US13/940,037
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• Field of Search: 717101-178, 705 50-912, 707600-999206
• US Class Current: 717/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data

Abstract

Systems and methods for facilitating an integrated environment for developing information exchanges are disclosed. In such environment, a global registry of conceptual objects for developing information exchanges may be provided. In such an environment, a local registry of conceptual objects may be provided for facilitating a local information exchange standard established for an individual domain. Under the environment, exchange objects may be composed based on the objects in the global registry and/or local registry. The exchange objects may be stored in a repository associated with the individual domain for developing the information exchanges. Exchange artifacts conforming to multiple exchange standards may be generated based on the exchange objects in the repository. The conceptual objects and exchange objects in the local registry and repository associated with the individual domain may be promoted to the global registry; and may be imported from and/or exported to enteral resources.

Claims

1. A system configured to provide a global registry to facilitate information exchanges, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising;

a global registry management module configured to manage a global registry of conceptual objects corresponding to data elements and/or object types of a global information exchange standard;

a promotion receipt module configured to receive promotion requests for promoting conceptual objects in local registries associated with individual domains to the global registry such that the promotion receipt module receives a first promotion request for promoting a first conceptual object in a first local registry to the global registry;

a promotion review module configured to obtain review information indicating approvals of the promotion requests received by the promotion receipt module such that responsive to the first promotion request being received by the promotion receipt module, the promotion review module obtains review information indicating an approval of the first promotion request; and

a global registry provision module configured to provide conceptual objects in the global registry to client computers associated with developers of the information exchanges such that responsive to the review information indicating the approval of the first promotion request as obtained by the promotion review module, the global registry provision module provides the first conceptual object in the global registry to client computers associated with developers of the information exchanges.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the global registry management module is configured such that the conceptual objects in the global registry managed by the global registry management module represent entity-relationship concepts and business use semantics for the entity-relationship concepts as established by the global information exchange standard.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the conceptual objects in the global registry representing entity-relationship concepts comprise information corresponding to entities, roles, actions, elements, or enumerations for facilitating the information exchanges.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the promotion receipt module is further configured such that the first conceptual object being requested to be promoted to the global registry comprises information corresponding to an entity, a role, an action, an element, a term, or a value list.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the registry management module is further configured such that the global registry managed by the global registry management module further comprises product objects corresponding to the global information exchange standard.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the product objects in the global registry indicate relationships of entities, the relationships of the entities being represented by the conceptual objects in the global registry.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein

the promotion receipt module is further configured to receive promotion requests for promoting product objects in repositories associated with the individual domain to the global registry such that the promotion receipt module receives a second promotion request for promoting a first product object in a first local repository to the global registry;

the promotion review module is further configured such that responsive to receiving the second promotion request, the promotion review module obtains review information indicating an approval of the second promotion request; and

the global registry provision module is further configured to provide product objects in the global registry to facilitate the information exchanges between the users such that responsive to the review information indicating the approval of the second promotion request as obtained by the promotion review module, the global registry provision module provides the first product object in the global registry to client computing platforms to facilitate the information exchanges.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the promotion receipt module is further configured to generate one or more promotion requests to promote conceptual objects included in the first product project.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the computer programs further comprising an object importation module configured to import from resources external to the system information indicating one or more conceptual objects and/or product objects to the global registry.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer programs further comprise an interface module configured to generate information for providing graphical user interfaces implemented on client computing platforms associated with users to enable user actions to manage the promotion requests received by the promotion receipt module.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the interface module is configured such that the enabled user actions for managing the promotion requests received by the promotion receipt module comprise an action to approve the promotion requests.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein

the promotion receipt module is further configured such that the promotion receipt module receives a third promotion request for promoting a second conceptual object in a second local registry to the global registry;

the promotion review module is further configured such that responsive to the third promotion request being received by the promotion receipt module, the promotion review module obtains review information indicating an approval of the third promotion request; and

the global registry provision module is further configured such that responsive to the review information indicating the approval of the third promotion request as obtained by the promotion review module, the global registry provision module provides the second conceptual objects in the global registry to client computing platforms to facilitate the information exchanges.

13. A system for providing a repository and a local registry for facilitating information exchanges of a domain, wherein the system comprising:

one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising;

a repository module configured to manage a repository of exchange objects, the exchange objects including a first product object;

a local registry module configured to manage a local registry of conceptual objects corresponding to data elements of an information exchange standard for the domain, the local registry having a first conceptual object; and

a promotion request module configured to obtain promotion requests for promoting conceptual objects in the local registry managed by the local registry module, and/or for promoting product objects in the repository managed by the repository module to a global registry that facilitates a global information exchange standard such that the promotion request module obtains a first promotion request for promoting the first conceptual object and/or for promoting the first product object to the global registry;

a promotion review module configured to obtain review information indicating approvals of the promotion requests obtained by the promotion request module such that responsive to the first promotion request being obtained by the promotion request module, the promotion review module obtains review information indicating an approval of the first promotion request; and

a global registry provision module configured to provide conceptual objects in the global registry to client computers associated with developers of the information exchanges such that responsive to the review information indicating the approval of the first promotion request as obtained by the promotion review module, the global registry provision module provides the first conceptual object in the global registry to client computers associated with developers of the information exchanges.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the local registry module is configured such that the conceptual objects in the local registry managed by the local registry module comprises conceptual objects representing entity-relationship concepts.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the conceptual objects in the local registry representing entity-relationship concepts comprises information corresponding to entities, roles, actions, elements, terms, or enumerations for facilitating the information exchanges.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the repository module is configured such that the product objects stored in the repository managed by the repository module indicate relationships of entities, the relationships of the entities being represented by the conceptual objects in the local registry.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the computer programs further comprising an object importation module configured to import from resources external to the one or more conceptual objects to the local registry and/or one or more product objects to the repository.