Adaptive data transformation engine

• US 9,230,039 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CommWorks Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Rateze Remote Mgmt. L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Richard, Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): YI, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US14/223,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20140297671A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90 Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/42 Anonymization, e.g. involving pseudonyms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/60 Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/68 Special signature format, e.g. XML format
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures

Abstract

Information streams are integrated with context information objects and processing instruction objects. The integrated information streams are received by a solution manifold and transformed in accordance with the context information objects, the instruction objects, and logic inherent in the solution manifold. The transformed information is then viewed by a client of the solution manifold. The client may also impose different transformation rules and context information on the transformed information and return those transformation rules and context information to the solution manifold to revised the manner in which integrated data is subsequently transformed. Additionally, the solution manifold logic may be overruled by the instruction objects and/or updated by the instruction objects.

Claims

1. A computer-readable device whose contents are adapted to cause a computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:

transmitting a data stream and transformation code as separate streams for receipt by a client system, the data stream is encoded using one or more metatags and the transformation code describing manipulation to be performed at points identified by the one or more metatags in the data stream to convert the data stream into transformed information; and

producing active code that is to be executed as part of the transformation code based on feedback received from the client system, the active code being executable to revise analysis operations performed by a solution manifold through execution of the transformation code.

2. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transformation code is configured to, in response to being executed, convert the data stream into transformed information in real time as the separate streams that include the data stream and the transformation code are received.

3. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transmitting is performed such that the data stream is processable using the transformation code in real time.

4. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transformation code includes at least one partial header that comprises information that describes a frequency at which full headers appear in the transmitted stream of the transformation code.

5. The computer-readable device of claim 4, wherein at least one of the full headers comprises one of:

information regarding a version, information regarding routing, and information regarding security permissions.

6. The computer-readable device of claim 4, wherein the full headers indicate points at which data in the data stream is to be read.

7. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transformation code includes inline stream processing instructions (ISPI).

8. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transformation code includes a chain of custody fingerprint within an object data structure that identifies where analysis operations in the transformation code were derived.

9. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transformation code is written in an extensible stream markup language (XSML).

10. The computer-readable device of claim 1, wherein the transformation code or the data stream is written in compliance with Base 85.

11. The computer-readable device of claim 10, wherein a five character block in base 85 maps directly to a 32 bit double word.

12. A system comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a data stream and transformation code as separate streams for receipt by a client system, the data stream is encoded using one or more metatags and the transformation code describing manipulation to be performed at points identified by the one or more metatags in the data stream to convert the data stream into transformed information; and

a data processor configured to produce active code that is to be executed as part of the transformation code based on feedback received from the client system, the active code being executable to revise analysis operations performed through execution of the transformation code.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the transformation code is configured, in response to being executed, to convert the data stream into transformed information in real time as the separate streams that include the data stream and the transformation code are received.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the data stream transmitted by the transmitter includes a first header that comprises information concerning cryptographic traits of a second header in the data stream, the second header comprising license information.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the data stream transmitted by the transmitter is comprised of a plurality of data objects, each of which is directly associated with a corresponding security policy that is not obtained from a global configuration file.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the direct association of the plurality of data objects is configured such that a change made to the corresponding security policy of a first said data object of the data stream does not affect the corresponding security policy of a second said data object of the data stream.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the data stream transmitted by the transmitter is comprised of a plurality of data objects, each of which having an embedded security policy and digital signature.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the data stream transmitted by the transmitter includes raw streaming data obtained from a plurality of sources and the metatags describe inherent relationships between the data.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein at least one of the inherent relationships is time.

20. A computer-readable device whose contents are adapted to cause a computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a data stream and transformation code as separate streams from a solution manifold, the data stream is encoded using one or more metatags and the transformation code describing manipulation to be performed at points identified by the one or more metatags in the data stream to convert the data stream into transformed information; and

providing feedback for receipt by the solution manifold to revise analysis operations performed by the solution manifold, through execution of the transformation code, by producing active code by the solution manifold that is to be executed as part of the transformation code.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the transformation code is configured to be executed to convert the data stream into transformed information in real time as the separate streams that include the data stream and the transformation code are received.