SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATED DATA DISCOVERY SERVICE

• US 20130080536A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Rolia, Jerome, Jacobsen, Mark, Moloney, Gary, Simske, Steven J.
• Application Number:
  US13/702,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080536A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]

Abstract

The present disclosure includes a system and method for an automated data discovery system [701] in a collaborative information system [222]. One example method includes authorizing, by a number of participants, a query service having specified data inputs and outputs, the query service comprising a group of queries [703]. One or more models are configured, by the number of participants, to constrain the group of queries to restricted portions of a plurality of communicatively coupled participant data sources [709]. An automated data discovery service is to authorized by the number of participants [711], and the discovery service is invoked by the number of participants to execute the group of queries subject to constraints of the configured models to obtain discovered information [713].

Claims

1. A method for an automated data discovery service [701] in a collaborative information system [222], comprising:

authorizing, by a number of participants, a query service having specified data inputs and outputs, the query service comprising a group of queries [703];

configuring, by the number of participants, one or more models to constrain the group of queries to restricted portions of a plurality of participant data sources [709];

authorizing, by the number of participants, an automated data discovery service [711]; and

invoking the automated data discovery service, by the number of participants, to execute the group of queries subject to constraints of the configured models to obtain discovered information [713].

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising caching the discovered information in an index [586, 692] of the plurality of participant data sources [240, 572].

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the discovered information is an indication of one or more of the plurality of participant data sources [240] having data results of the group of queries therein.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising invoking the query service [226, 446], by a particular one of the number of participants [238], to execute the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N], wherein each query is respectively constrained to the one or more of the plurality of participant data sources [240, 572] having data results for a particular query therein.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising re-configuring, by a particular one of the number of participants [238], the one or more models to differently constrain the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of the query service [226, 446], wherein the automated data discovery service [584] is simultaneously differently constrained according to the re-configured one or more models.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the invoked automated data discovery service [584] periodically executes the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] with respect to one of the plurality of participant data sources [240, 572], a cached index [586, 692] being updated with the discovered information.

7. A collaborative information system [222], comprising

a plurality of individually-controlled data sources [240, 572] provided by respective data providers [238];

a computing platform [224] communicatively coupled to the plurality of data sources [240, 572], the computing platform [224] programmed with a number of services, including;

query services [226, 446], each query service [226, 446] comprising a group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] having predefined data inputs and outputs;

an authorization configuration service [230] to limit the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of respective query services [226, 446] to corresponding authorized portions of the plurality of data sources [240, 572] as previously indicated to the computing platform [224] by respective data providers [238]; and

an automated data discovery service [584] to periodically execute the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of respective query services [226, 446] according to the authorization configuration service [230] and cache the discovered information in an index [234, 692].

8. The collaborative information system of claim 7, wherein changes to the authorization configuration service [230] simultaneously limit execution of the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] with respect to respective query services [226, 446] and the automated data discovery service [584].

9. The collaborative information system of claim 7, wherein the discovered information includes the data results of the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of respective query services [226, 446] involving corresponding authorized portions of the plurality of data sources [240, 572].

10. The collaborative information system of claim 7, wherein the discovered information includes an indication of one or more of the plurality of data sources [240, 572] having data therein that is pertinent to the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of respective query services [226, 446].

11. The collaborative information system of claim 7, wherein the discovered information includes an indication of one or more of the plurality of data sources [240, 572] having data results of the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of respective query services [226, 446].

12. The collaborative information system of claim 7, wherein the computing platform [224] is implemented by a cloud computing system 100, and the index is a cloud index [586, 692].

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium [107] having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

authorize, by a number of participants, a query service having specified data inputs and outputs, the query service comprising a group of queries [703];

configure, by the number of participants, one or more models to constrain the group of queries to restricted portions of a plurality of communicatively coupled participant data sources [709];

authorize, by the number of participants, an automated data discovery service [711]; and

invoke the automated data discovery service, by the number of participants, to execute the group of queries subject to constraints of the configured models to obtain discovered information [713].

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium [107] of claim 13, further including computer-readable instructions stored thereon that are executed by the processor to cache the discovered information in an index [586, 692] of the plurality of communicatively coupled participant data sources [240, 572].

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium [107] of claim 13, further including computer-readable instructions stored thereon that are executed by the processor to re-configure, by a particular one of the number of participants, the one or more models to differently constrain the group of queries [227-1, 227-2, . . . , 227-N] of the query service [226, 446], wherein the automated data discovery service [584] is simultaneously differently constrained according to the re-configured one or more models.