Communication system for processing data

• US 8,700,647 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2007
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Neuneier, Ralph, Skubacz, Michal
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Shiow-Jy
• Application Number:
  US11/763,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20070294261A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,497 Days
• Field of Search: 707/100, 707/101, 707/104.1, 707/756, 707/809, 709/203, 709/219, 709/201, 709/206
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

In a plurality of sub-systems, a respective sub-system processes data according to a logic system specific to the respective sub-system. At least some of the sub-systems respectively include at least one acquisition unit which is configured in such a way that it acquires information relating to the processed data of the respective sub-system and converts it into a predefined data structure which is the same for at least some of the sub-systems. the acquisition units are connected to a common analysis unit which during operation of the communication system receives information from the acquisition units relating to the processed data in the predefined data structure and analyzes it in relation to predefined criteria.

Claims

1. A communication system for processing data, comprising:

a plurality of sub-systems that are web systems, a respective sub-system processing data according to a logic system specific to the respective sub-system and different from each of the other logic systems such that the logic systems of the respective sub-systems do not understand each other, at least some of the sub-systems respectively including;

a computer processor;

a content supplying unit that supplies the data of the respective sub-system;

a content management unit that manages the data of the respective sub-system and augments the data with additional information that is available only locally in the respective sub-system to create augmented data; and

an acquisition unit that acquires the data and the augmented data of the respective sub-system and produces converted information in a predefined data structure by converting the augmented data of the respective sub-system into a uniform data structure that is the same for all of the sub-systems and stores the converted information in a local database; and

a common analysis unit, connected to the acquisition units, receiving the converted information from each local database of the at least some of the sub-systems over a common standardized interface, during operation of the communication system, and analyzing the converted information in relation to predefined criteria, wherein

the communication system provides web contents for a plurality of users and the data supplied by the content supplying unit includes web contents of the respective sub-system retrieved by the users with web browsers.

2. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the web systems communicate with the web browsers of the users via the HTTP protocol.

3. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the web contents retrieved by the users is acquired at least partially via requesting of the web contents by the web browser.

4. The communication system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the web contents retrieved by the users is at least partially transmitted through to the acquisition units by way of redirection from links into HTML web pages displayed by the web browser.

5. The communication system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the links are links to other web pages or links for downloading documents.

6. The communication system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the web contents retrieved by the users is at least one of a URL, storage location or author of a retrieved web page or file, and/or a time at which the web page or file was retrieved.

7. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional information comprises meta information on the web contents, including at least one of the storage location, the author and a storage name of the retrieved web page or file.

8. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common analysis unit statistically analyzes the converted information in the predefined data structure.

9. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of at least one acquisition unit of the at least some of the sub-systems is divided into at least one first acquisition sub-unit acquiring the data and the augmented data of the respective sub-system and at least one second acquisition sub-unit further processing the data and the augmented data of the respective sub-system.

10. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the sub-systems comprises a plurality of content supplying units supplying the web contents for retrieval by the web browser, each content supplying unit containing a first content sub-unit and all first content sub-units splitting a common second content sub-unit.

11. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the sub-systems comprises a plurality of content supplying units supplying the web contents for retrieval by the web browser, each content supplying unit containing a first content sub-unit and at least one of the content supplying units also containing a second content sub-unit.

12. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the sub-systems comprises a plurality of content supplying units supplying the web contents for retrieval by the web browser, each content supplying unit comprising one of the acquisition units.

13. The communication system as claimed in claim 12, wherein at least one of the sub-systems comprises at least two redundant acquisition units.

14. A method for processing data in a communication system, comprising:

processing data in each of a plurality of sub-systems, which are web systems, in the communication system according to a logic system specific to the respective sub-system, each of the logic systems being different from each of the other logic systems such that the logic systems of the respective sub-systems do not understand each other;

supplying, by at least some of the sub-systems, the data of the respective sub-system using at least one content supplying unit in each case;

managing, by at least some of the sub-systems, the data of the respective sub-system and augmenting the data with additional information that is available only locally in the respective sub-system to create augmented data using at least one content management unit in each case;

acquiring, by at least some of the sub-systems, the data and the augmented data of the respective sub-system and producing converted information in a predefined data structure by converting the augmented data of the respective sub-system into a uniform data structure that is the same for all of the sub-systems and storing the converted information in a local database using at least one acquisition unit in each case;

during operation of the communication system, sending the converted information from each local database of the at least some of the sub-systems over a common standardized interface from the acquisition units to a common analysis unit; and

analyzing the converted information in relation to predefined criteria, by the common analysis unit, wherein

the communication system provides web contents for a plurality of users and the data supplied by the content supplying unit includes web contents of the respective sub-system retrieved by the users with web browsers.