SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BINDING MULTIPLE INTERPOLATED DATA OBJECTS

• US 20120136880A1
• Filed: 11/29/2010
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Williamson, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 8,364,687 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for binding multiple interpolated data objects. A database management system can store operational data, such as financial, medical, or other information. A user can access a set of target data, representing an output desired to be generated from an interpolated set of input data. Thus, the average air temperature of a region may be known for ten years, along with other inputs including water temperature, wind speed, and other data. The interpolation engine can receive a target temperature for the current year, and generate water temperatures, wind speeds, or other inputs that will produce the target temperature. The interpolation engine can also be configured to access and combine two or more sets of interpolated data using a set of data bindings into one multiply-bound interpolation object. The combined or multiply-bound interpolation object can be operated on by the interpolation engine or accessing application(s) on a unified and updateable basis.

Claims

1. A method of generating data bindings in sets of interpolated input data, comprising:

accessing a first set of combined input data, the first set of combined input data comprising a first set of predetermined input data and a first set of interpolated input data, the first set of interpolated data being generated to conformally map the first set of combined input data to a first set of target output data;

accessing a second set of combined input data, the second set of combined input data comprising a second set of predetermined input data and a second set of interpolated input data, the second set of interpolated data being generated to conformally map the second set of combined input data to a second set of target output data;

generating a set of data bindings between the first set of combined input data and the second set of combined input data to create a multiply-bound interpolated data object; and

configuring the multiply-bound interpolated data object for access by an accessing application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the set of data bindings comprising generating an alignment of dimensions between the first set of combined input data and the second set of combined input data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of bindings comprises a set of class bindings defining an object class for the multiply-bound interpolated data object.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the multiply-bound interpolated data object comprises an extensible markup language (XML)-based object.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the object class is accessible to the accessing application at least in a memory of a processing executing the accessing application.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the multiply-bound interpolated data object to a data store.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically updating the multiply-bound interpolated data object based on an update to at least one of the first set of combined input data or the second set of combined input data.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a set of data bindings between the multiply-bound interpolated data object and one or more additional sets of combined input data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the accessing application comprises at least one of a spreadsheet application, a database application, a modeling application, a statistical application, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, or an interpolated application.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of combined input data comprises at least one of a set of financial data, a set of medical data, a set of demographic data, a set of engineering data, a set of network operations data, or a set of geographic data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of target output data and the second set of target output data comprise the same data.

12. A system for processing a set of interpolated input data, comprising:

an interface to a database storing—

a first set of combined input data, the first set of combined input data comprising a first set of predetermined input data and a first set of interpolated input data, the first set of interpolated data being generated to conformally map the first set of combined input data to a first set of target output data, and

a second set of combined input data, the second set of combined input data comprising a second set of predetermined input data and a second set of interpolated input data, the second set of interpolated data being generated to conformally map the second set of combined input data to a second set of target output data

a processor, communicating with the database, the processor being configured to-