Appliance for enterprise information integration and enterprise resource interoperability platform and methods

• US 20060271563A1
• Filed: 02/23/2005
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Objectstore Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Metatomix, Inc. (ESW Capital, LLC)
• Inventors: Kaufman, Noah W. M., Angelo, Robert F., Azmi, Amir, Kumar, Ashok, Raybourn, Darren, Britton, Colin P., Bajpai, Chandra
• Granted Patent: US 7,890,517 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

The invention provides apparatus, platforms and methods according to the invention provide a surveillance, monitoring and real-time events platform to (i) enable the integration and communication of information between government agencies and organizations specifically tasked with ensuring the security and safety of our nation and its communities, (ii) to integrate information systems from federal, state and/or local agencies (from disparate data sources if necessary) in order to obtain a single, real-time view of the entire organization, and (iii) to extract more complete, actionable information from their existing systems, thereby dramatically improving decision making speed and accuracy.

Claims

1. A method of enterprise integration, the method comprising:

A. obtaining data from one or more first data sources, the data being encoded in a first set of RDF triples;

B. executing a rules engine to process the first set of RDF triples in order to classify data from the one or more first data sources; and

C. responding to at least selected data classifications by obtaining data from one or more second data sources, the data being encoded in a second set of RDF triples;

D. executing the rules engine to process at least the second set of triples in order to any of further classify the data, generate an alert, generate a broadcast, and generate a message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein any of the first and second data sources is a data stream.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein any of the first and second data sources is a database.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the rules engine identifies RDF triples that are related to a selected criteria.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the rules engine generates alerts and/or messages for presentation to an operator based on the classification of the data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising extracting data from one or more data sources, and a converting the data into the RDF triples.

7. A method of enterprise integration, the method comprising:

receiving one or more RDF data streams comprising data encoded in RDF triples;

executing a rules engine to find related RDF triples; and

responding to related RDF triples by the rules engine applying further processing of the data when certain relationships between the RDF triples are detected by the rules engine.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the rules engine identifies RDF triples that are related to criteria in a query.

9. The method of claims 8, wherein the rules engine generates alerts and/or messages for presentation to an operator based on the identified RDF triples.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising a extracting data from one or more data sources, and a converting the data into the RDF triples.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the rules engines determines a classification level of data in the RDF data streams, where the classification level determines the further action taken by the rules engine.

12. A method of enterprise integration, the method comprising:

receiving one or more RDF data streams comprising data encoded in RDF triples;

executing a rules engine to process the RDF triples in order to classify the data and to find related RDF triples;

responding to the classification of the data and the related RDF triples by the rules engine applying further processing of the data when certain conditions are detected by the rules engine.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the rules engine identifies RDF triples that are related to criteria in a query.

14. The method of claims 13, wherein the rules engine generates alerts and/or messages for presentation to an operator based on the identified RDF triples.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising a extracting data from one or more data sources, and a converting the data into the RDF triples.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the rules engines determines a classification level of data in the RDF data streams, where the classification level determines the further action taken by the rules engine.

17. A data processing system for enterprise integration, the system comprising:

a plurality of data sources;

conversion functionality to convert data from the data sources into RDF triples;

a rules engine couple to the data sources to process the RDF triples, the processing comprising classifying the RDF triples to be ignored, stored, logged for alert, and/or other classifications;

wherein the classification of the RDF triples can trigger additional function of the rules engine.