System and method for providing a content distribution network with data quality monitoring and management

• US 9,591,052 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Marins, Sergejs, Ritchie, Grant
• Primary Examiner(s): Bengzon, Greg C
• Application Number:
  US14/173,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222966A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing a content distribution network. In an embodiment, the system and method helps organizations share content as a content source, and manage multiple feeds of content from various other content sources, keeping specific information private while integrating shared updates. For example, the content may be local business information kept by numerous different organizations for their own locality. By sharing this location information through a shared content distribution network, the organizations are able to update the location information of their users and obtain a higher quality of data. In an embodiment, an organization may prioritize the content in a private feed in order to override crowd sourced external data. The network, system and method further includes one or more tools or features for monitoring and managing data quality.

Claims

1. A computer system implemented method comprising:

calculating, by one or more computers, a number of profiles for auditing, each profile including information corresponding to a respective business entity represented in a content feed, the content feed having one or more data fields and being associated with an estimated feed accuracy value;

selecting, by the one or more computers and according to the number, a subset of one or more profiles from a plurality of profiles in the content feed, the content feed having one or more data fields and being associated with an estimated feed accuracy value;

providing, by the one or more computers, the selected one or more profiles for display in an auditing interface, wherein each profile in the selected subset is displayed in association with a user interface item for receiving a respective user verification or for receiving a respective user correction of a corresponding profile;

determining, by the one or more computers, a data accuracy value of the content feed based on an aggregation of verified profiles or an aggregation of corrected profiles;

presenting, in the auditing interface, the data accuracy value of the content feed, wherein presenting the data accuracy value comprises presenting a difference between the data accuracy value and the estimated feed accuracy value; and

receiving a user input from the auditing interface, the user input confirming the data accuracy value or changing at least a portion of the one or more data fields.

2. The computer system implemented method of claim 1, wherein the data accuracy value indicates whether data in a content repository is accurate, the method further comprising determining a data depth value of the content feed and a data coverage value of the content feed, the data depth value indicating whether in a provided across a feed, whether information is available for fields of a profile, and the data coverage value indicating whether data is available across a universe that is relevant to the data.

3. The computer system implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content feed is one among a plurality of content feeds of a composite data feed that are from a plurality of data sources, and the composite data feed aggregates the plurality of content feeds and provides the aggregated content feeds to a client.

4. The computer system implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content feed is associated with a decay rate of the estimated feed accuracy value, and presenting the data accuracy value of the feed comprises presenting a difference between the data accuracy value and the estimated feed accuracy value adjusted for the decay rate.

5. The computer system implemented method of claim 1, comprising, upon determining that the data accuracy value falls below a threshold, providing, through a dashboard, a suggestion for improving the data feed by replacing the content feed with another data feed.

6. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions operable to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

calculating, by the one or more computers, a number of profiles for auditing, each profile including information corresponding to a respective business entity represented in a content feed, the content feed having one or more data fields and being associated with an estimated feed accuracy value;

selecting, by the one or more computers and according to the number, a subset of one or more profiles from a plurality of profiles in the content feed;

providing, by the one or more computers, the selected one or more profiles for display in an auditing interface, wherein each profile in the selected subset is displayed in association with a user interface item for receiving a respective user verification or for receiving a respective user correction of a corresponding profile;

determining, by the one or more computers, a data accuracy value of the content feed based on an aggregation of verified profiles or an aggregation of corrected profiles;

presenting, in the auditing interface, the data accuracy value of the content feed, wherein presenting the data accuracy value comprises presenting a difference between the data accuracy value and the estimated feed accuracy value; and

receiving a user input from the auditing interface, the user input confirming the data accuracy value or changing at least a portion of the one or more data fields.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the data accuracy value indicates whether data in a content repository is accurate, the operations further comprising determining a data depth value of the content feed and a data coverage value of the content feed, the data depth value indicating whether in a provided across a feed, whether information is available for fields of a profile, and the data coverage value indicating whether data is available across a universe that is relevant to the data.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the content feed is one among a plurality of content feeds of a composite data feed including data from a plurality of data sources, and the composite data feed aggregates the plurality of content feeds and provides the aggregated content feeds to a client.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the content feed is associated with a decay rate of the estimated feed accuracy value, and presenting the data accuracy value of the feed comprises presenting a difference between the data accuracy value and the previously estimated feed accuracy value adjusted for the decay rate.

10. The system of claim 6, the operations comprising, upon determining that the data accuracy value falls below a threshold, providing, through a dashboard, a suggestion for replacing the content feed with another data feed.

11. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions operable to cause one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

calculating, by the one or more computers, a number of profiles for auditing, each profile including information corresponding to a respective business entity represented in a content feed;

selecting, by the one or more computers and according to the number, a subset of one or more profiles from a plurality of profiles in the content feed;

providing, by the one or more computers, the selected one or more profiles for display in an auditing interface, wherein each profile in the selected subset is displayed in association with a user interface item for receiving a respective user verification or for receiving a respective user correction of a corresponding profile;

determining, by the one or more computers, a data accuracy value of the content feed based on an aggregation of verified profiles or an aggregation of corrected profiles;

presenting, in the auditing interface, the data accuracy value of the content feed, wherein presenting the data accuracy value comprises presenting a difference between the data accuracy value and the estimated feed accuracy value; and

receiving a user input from the auditing interface, the user input confirming the data accuracy value or changing at least a portion of the one or more data fields.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the data accuracy value indicates whether data in a content repository is accurate, the operations further comprising determining a data depth value of the content feed and a data coverage value of the content feed, the data depth value indicating whether in a provided across a feed, whether information is available for fields of a profile, and the data coverage value indicating whether data is available across a universe that is relevant to the data.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the content feed is one among a plurality of content feeds of a composite data feed including data from a plurality of data sources, and the composite data feed aggregates the plurality of content feeds and provides the aggregated content feeds to a client.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the content feed is associated with a decay rate of the estimated feed accuracy value, and presenting the data accuracy value of the feed comprises presenting a difference between the data accuracy value and the estimated feed accuracy value adjusted for the decay rate.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, the operations comprising, upon determining that the data accuracy value falls below a threshold, providing, through a dashboard, a suggestion for replacing the content feed with another data feed.