Generating portable interpolated data using object-based encoding of interpolation results

• US 9,489,439 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Williamson, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): HUANG, MIRANDA M
• Application Number:
  US13/037,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,080 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/84 Mapping; Conversion

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating portable interpolated data using object-based encoding of interpolation results. A database can store sets of operational data, such as financial, medical, climate or other information. For given data, a portion of the input data can be known or predetermined, while for a second portion can be unknown and subject to interpolation. The interpolation engine can generate a conformal interpolation function and interpolated input sets that map to a set of target output data. In aspects, the interpolation engine can interact with an object encoder module to access, extract, and encode the interpolated inputs and/or other data in an object-based format or schema, such as the extensible markup language (XML). The object encoder can generate an object-oriented interpolated data container to transmit to a local or remote database, and expose that container to sets of applications for access and use by those applications. The applications can include other interpolation packages, and/or conventional applications such as databases or spreadsheets which do not have native interpolation capability. The applications can share, exchange, and/or modified the object-based interpolation data container(s), and can request further interpolation processing on updated objects via interpolation requests to remote interpolation engines.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing operative data comprising a set of input data and a set of output data, wherein the set of input data comprises a set of interpolated input data generated to conformally map the set of input data to the set of output data;

decomposing the operative data into a set of component objects comprising at least one interpolated component object derived from the interpolated input data;

generating, by a processor and in view of a determination that the set of output data can be generated with multiple combinations of elements from the set of input data, an object-oriented interpolated data container storing at least a portion of the set of component objects, the portion comprising at least one interpolated component object;

exposing the object-oriented interpolated data container to a set of applications via an application interface, wherein the set of applications operates on the object-oriented interpolated data container to generate an updated object-oriented interpolated data container; and

in response to a request from one application from the set of applications that corresponds to a variable in the updated object-oriented interpolated data container whose value is invalid, performing further interpolation operations on the updated object-oriented interpolated data container.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object-oriented interpolated data container comprises an extensible markup language (XML) container.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the object-oriented interpolated data container to a remote data store.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising serializing the set of component objects.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the application interface comprises a directory service.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of applications operates on the object-oriented interpolated data container to generate an updated object-oriented interpolated data container.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two of the set of applications operate on different portions of the object-oriented interpolated data container.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two of the set of the applications operate on a same portion of the object-oriented interpolated data container.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the further interpolation operations are initiated via an interpolation command received from the set of applications.

10. A system comprising:

an interface to a database to store operative data comprising a set of input data and a set of output data, wherein the set of input data comprises a set of interpolated input data generated to conformally map the set of input data to the set of output data; and

a processor, to communicate with the database via the interface, the processor to;

decompose the operative data into a set of component objects comprising at least one interpolated component object derived from the interpolated input data,

generate, in view of a determination that the set of output data can be generated with multiple combinations of elements from the set of input data, an object-oriented interpolated data container storing at least a portion of the set of component objects, the portion comprising at least one interpolated component object,

expose the object-oriented interpolated data container to a set of applications via an application interface, wherein the set of applications operates on the object-oriented interpolated data container to generate an updated object-oriented interpolated data container, and

in response to a request from one application from the set of applications that corresponds to a variable in the updated object-oriented interpolated data container whose value is invalid, perform further interpolation operations on the updated object-oriented interpolated data container.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the object-oriented interpolated data container comprises an extensible markup language (XML) container.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further to transmit the object-oriented interpolated data container to a remote data store.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is to serialize the set of component objects of the set of operative data.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the application interface comprises a directory service.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the set of applications operates on the object-oriented interpolated data container to generate an updated object-oriented interpolated data container.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein at least two of the set of applications operate on different portions of the object-oriented interpolated data container.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein at least two of the set of the applications operate on a same portion of the object-oriented interpolated data container.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the further interpolation operations are initiated via an interpolation command received from the set of applications.