Knowledge discovery tool extraction and integration

• US 20080147590A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Bechtel, Michael E., Mathur, Sanjay, Arago, Jordi
• Granted Patent: US 8,356,036 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/254 Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Abstract

A method for integrating a data item into a knowledge model is provided. The method may include retrieving the data item from a data source, determining if the data item has been previously integrated into the knowledge model, and integrating the data element into the knowledge model if the data item has not been previously integrated.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

retrieving a first document from a data source, the first document having a first data item and an identifier;

generating a first hash value based on the first document;

integrating the first data item into a knowledge model in a data storage device;

retrieving a second document having the same identifier as the first document and having a second data item;

generating a second hash value based on the second document;

comparing the first hash value to the second hash value to determine whether the second document is different than the first document;

replacing the first data item with the second data item in the knowledge model if the first hash value is different than the second hash value, or maintaining the first data item in the knowledge model if the first hash value is identical to the second hash value; and

displaying from the knowledge model either the first data item or the second data item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein integrating the first data item into the knowledge model in the data storage device further comprises

comparing the identifier of the first document to a table of identifiers generated for previously integrated data items.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing the identifier in the table if the identifier is not in the table.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier includes a document title and a data source identifier.

5. A method comprising:

retrieving a first data item from a first data source, the first data item including a first type of information;

determining a first reliability value for the first data source for the first type of information;

integrating the first data item and the first reliability value into a knowledge model in a data storage device;

retrieving a second data item from a second data source, the second data item including the first type of information;

determining a second reliability value for the second data source;

comparing the second reliability value to the first reliability value and replacing the first data item and first reliability value with the second data item and the second reliability value in the knowledge model only if the second reliability value is greater than the first reliability value; and

displaying from the knowledge model either the first data item or the second data item.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising inserting the first or second data item into a field of the knowledge model.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the first and second reliability values are based in part on an external ranking of the first data source reliability and the second data source reliability, respectively.

8. A system comprising:

a server adapted to;

retrieve a document from a data source, wherein the document has a data item and an identifier,

generate a first hash value based on the document, and

compare the first hash value to a second hash value having the same identifier to determine whether the document has been modified; and

a display to display the data item.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the server is further adapted to compare the identifier to a table of identifiers generated for previously integrated data items.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the server is further adapted to store the identifier in the table if the identifier is not in the table.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the identifier includes a document title and a data source identifier.