171 results about "Data abstraction" patented technology

A system and method for managing an enterprise is provided. The system and method may be based on a layered architecture including a data center that may store all documents and data abstractions for an enterprise. One or more services may interact with an enterprise resource planning system and / or a customer relationship manager to facilitate interaction with the documents and data abstractions. A client access point of the system may include a graphical user interface that includes one or more enterprise management functions for managing the enterprise documents and / or data abstractions. The enterprise management functions may include a user proposal manager, an enterprise proposal manager, a proposal library, a content health manager, an archive library, a bid center, a contracts manager, a resume manager, a debriefing center, and / or a projects manager. The enterprise management functions may re-engineer business processes and enable users to manage all aspects of an enterprise using a single unified interface.

A method, system and article of manufacture for managing metadata associated with a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in a database. One embodiment provides a method of managing metadata describing objects of a data abstraction model with logical fields that define abstract views of physical data in a database. The method comprises traversing a logical tree structure representing the data abstraction model. The logical tree structure has a plurality of nodes, each representing a logical field or a category of logical fields of the data abstraction model. The method further comprises identifying metadata describing logical fields or categories represented by the plurality of nodes. The identified metadata is stored in a queryable database. A user is allowed to query the database to identify objects in the data abstraction model that may be used to construct an abstract query.

A method, system and article of manufacture for accessing data in a database independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented and for providing an abstract representation of the data in the database. One embodiment provides a method of architecting a logical representation of physical data in a database comprising providing a template data abstraction model defining template logical fields, and providing, on the basis of the template data abstraction model, a logical representation of the physical data, the logical representation defining a plurality of logical fields providing an abstract view of the physical data and adapted for transforming logical fields of abstract queries into a form consistent with the physical data in the database.

A method and apparatus, and article of manufacture are provided to process an abstract query of a database abstraction constructed over an underlying physical data storage mechanism. The database may comprise a single data source, or a federated source spanning multiple systems. Embodiments of the invention process an abstract query by generating an intermediate representation of the abstract query. In one embodiment, the intermediate representation comprises an abstract query plan. An abstract query plan includes a combination of elements from the data abstraction model and elements relating to the underlying physical data storage mechanism. Once generated, a back-end component may easily traverse the abstract query plan to generate an SQL statement (or other resolved query) corresponding to the abstract query. Further, once constructed, the abstract query plan provides a platform for many different optimizations that may be selected by a user or by the runtime component inspecting the abstract query plan prior to creating the resolved query.

A general rule-based technique is provided for generating a test case from an abstract internal test case representation. The abstract internal test case representation is based on a test case representation model that includes application states (state information), external interaction sequences (control flow information) and input data. The abstract representation in essence provides a platform independent representation of test cases. An application object model provides the representational capabilities required for capturing structural and behavioral properties of the application under test. Rules can be specified to define which application states (state information), external interaction sequences (control information) and input data sets should be used in the generation of the test case. A technique based on platform mapping is provided to convert a test case into an automation test script for any specific test script execution environment for any specific application platform.

A method, system and article of manufacture for accessing data in a database independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented and for providing an abstract representation of the data in the database. One embodiment provides a method of architecting a logical representation of physical data in a database comprising providing a template data abstraction model defining template logical fields, and providing, on the basis of the template data abstraction model, a logical representation of the physical data, the logical representation defining a plurality of logical fields providing an abstract view of the physical data and adapted for transforming logical fields of abstract queries into a form consistent with the physical data in the database.

A system and method for managing an enterprise is provided. The system and method may be based on a layered architecture including a data center that may store all documents and data abstractions for an enterprise. One or more services may interact with an enterprise resource planning system and / or a customer relationship manager to facilitate interaction with the documents and data abstractions. A client access point of the system may include a graphical user interface that includes one or more enterprise management functions for managing the enterprise documents and / or data abstractions. The enterprise management functions may include a user proposal manager, an enterprise proposal manager, a proposal library, a content health manager, an archive library, a bid center, a contracts manager, a resume manager, a debriefing center, and / or a projects manager. The enterprise management functions may re-engineer business processes and enable users to manage all aspects of an enterprise using a single unified interface.

A general rule-based technique is provided for generating a test case from an abstract internal test case representation. The abstract internal test case representation is based on a test case representation model that includes application states (state information), external interaction sequences (control flow information) and input data. The abstract representation in essence provides a platform independent representation of test cases. An application object model provides the representational capabilities required for capturing structural and behavioral properties of the application under test. Rules can be specified to define which application states (state information), external interaction sequences (control information) and input data sets should be used in the generation of the test case. Multiple data sets can be created and applied to support data-driven test case generation. A technique based on platform mapping is provided to convert a test case into an automation test script for any specific test script execution environment for any specific application platform.

A general technique using semantic analysis is provided that can be used for converting a specific automation test script (and its underlying test case), generated from generally available or proprietary test automation tools, into an abstract test case representation. The abstract test case representation is based on a test case representation model that includes application states (state information), external interaction sequences (control flow information) and input data. The abstract representation in essence provides a platform independent representation of test cases. An application object model provides the representational capabilities required for capturing structural and behavioral properties of the application under test. The abstract test case representation can be validated against and further enriched by specific object information from an application metadata repository. Finally, object information and input data can be separated from control flow information to provide automatic parameterization of the test script.

A method, system and article of manufacture for managing access to a data abstraction model abstractly describing physical data and, more particularly, for creating a logical security model for a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in a database. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for creating a logical security model based on a physical security model defining user access rights to physical data. The method comprises, for each of the user access rights defined by the physical security model, creating a logical access right definition for a logical model. The logical model comprises a plurality of logical field definitions each comprising a field name and access information for accessing a field of the physical data. The logical access right definitions are applied to the logical model so that the logical model reflects the user access rights to the physical data.

The invention relates to a universal open type face identification system which abstracts a related data in a face identification algorithm into a database data by introducing a backstage database support, adopts modularization and layering design and uses the backstage database as a bridge to perform the functions of collecting face samples, managing a face identification data, training a face classifier, guiding in a standard face database, testing for static picture face identification, testing for dynamic real-time face identification, generating a testing report, etc. Each module not only can work independently but also can work with other modules to finish tasks such as testing, real-time identification, etc. The invention can perform different face identification algorithms under an open type universal frame system, can finish face identification tasks in different databases and under different conditions, and can provide a reference model for the other face identification system.

An abstraction layer (50) is provided for facilitating accessing a database (10) containing database records each including a plurality of fields stored in one or more tables (12, 14). The abstraction layer (50) includes a control table (52) containing control records corresponding to database fields. Each control record contains metadata associated with the corresponding database field. The abstraction layer (50) also includes at least one additional table (54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 70, 72, 74, 80) containing additional metadata. Each database field is selectively associated with one or more selected portions of the additional metadata through metadata contained in the control record corresponding to the database field. A user database application (30) accesses the database (10) using metadata obtained from the abstraction layer (50).

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for query building with selectability of summary information. A user interface exposes a plurality of query composition elements for building abstract queries is defined by a data abstraction model. The user interface allows a user to select and apply aggregation operations to result fields of a given abstract query, and further allows a user to define result groups for the given query. The user interface further allows a user to selectively specify whether the given query will be executed as an aggregation query (by applying the aggregation operations), in which case summary information is returned according to the specified result group(s).

This invention covers improved electronic time-temperature indicators with an RFID output, and other devices and methods by which the thermal history of a complex material, which may not obey a simple exponential Arrhenius law degradation equation, may be monitored, and the subsequent fitness for use of the tracked material may be quickly ascertained. In particular, the invention discloses a rapidly reprogrammable electronic time-temperature RFID tag that may be easily customized with the thermal time-temperature stability profile of an arbitrary material, using electronic data transfer methods. Using this device, a single, low-cost, generic time-temperature tag may be mass-produced, and then subsequently programmed to mimic the stability characteristics of nearly any material of interest. By utilizing data compression to compress a material's extensive thermal history into the small user data field transmitted by modern RFID tags, a considerable amount of information relating to product status and cause of failure may be rapidly transmitted within the small memory confines of standard RFID tag protocols.

The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data abstraction model provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation. For a given abstract query, the abstract query is augmented with additional computer-selected result fields. In addition, the data abstraction model is also augmented with fields corresponding to the result fields of the previously executed abstract query.

A method, system and article of manufacture for accessing data in a database independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented and for modeling a physical representation of the data in the database for architecting a relationship between the physical representation of the data in the database and a logical representation of the data. One embodiment provides a method for architecting a relationship between a physical representation of data in a database and a logical representation of the data. The method comprises providing the logical representation defining logical fields; and then providing, on the basis of the logical representation, the physical representation for the data, whereby the logical fields defined by the logical representation provide an abstract view of the data and map logical fields of abstract queries to respective data in the database.

The invention discloses a rule engine, a calculating method, a service system and a calling method. The rule engine comprises a template setting module, a data source configuration module, a rule body setting module and a calculating module. The template setting module is used for customizing an excel cell format data sheet, logically abstracting a plurality of input items and output items from the calculating service in the service system to be defined into the data sheet, and leading the data sheet into a data base. The data source configuration module is used for analyzing the source of service data and abstracting an SQL according to the service data and configuring the data base corresponding to the SQL. The rule body setting module is used for writing a rule body. The calculating module is used for calling a data source according to the rule body, querying service data to be calculated, and obtaining the output items according to the input items in the data sheet. The data source can be switched dynamically, calculating in the service system is simplified, the calculating speed of the rule engine is increased, and the maintaining cost of the service system is lowered.

The invention discloses an automatic construction method for a big data knowledge graph in the public security field, relates to the technical field of data mining and artificial intelligence, and comprises the following steps: firstly, establishing a standard system for the public security field, and then establishing an Entity-mapping library in the public security field; storing the main attributes of the entities into a file storage database; pushing the data to a memory storage database, carrying out automatic series connection on fragmented entities, abstracting the data into three categories of entities, relations and events after the previous preparation work is finished, and sequentially finishing automatic construction of the public security field knowledge map by virtue of machine learning and deep learning services through knowledge modeling, knowledge extraction and entity fusion; Besides, the automatic construction capability is realized, the quality control and optimization of the knowledge graph are carried out, the public security field search intention analyzer is constructed, the intelligent recommendation of the user search is promoted, and the efficiency of obtaining effective information by the user search is improved.

This invention covers improved electronic time-temperature indicators with an RFID output, and other devices and methods by which the thermal history of a complex material, which may not obey a simple exponential Arrhenius law degradation equation, may be monitored, and the subsequent fitness for use of the tracked material may be quickly ascertained. In particular, the invention discloses a rapidly reprogrammable electronic time-temperature RFID tag that may be easily customized with the thermal time-temperature stability profile of an arbitrary material, using electronic data transfer methods. Using this device, a single, low-cost, generic time-temperature tag may be mass-produced, and then subsequently programmed to mimic the stability characteristics of nearly any material of interest. By utilizing data compression to compress a material's extensive thermal history into the small user data field transmitted by modern RFID tags, a considerable amount of information relating to product status and cause of failure may be rapidly transmitted within the small memory confines of standard RFID tag protocols.

A method, system and article of manufacture for data processing in databases and, more particularly, for providing natural language support in a database environment. One embodiment provides a method of providing natural language support for users running queries against a database. The method comprises providing a data abstraction model comprising a plurality of logical fields abstractly describing physical data residing in the database, and associating the data abstraction model with a language resource component defining a natural language expression for each of the plurality of logical fields.

A scaleable abstraction control solution including an abstraction process and an abstraction system. The abstraction solution permits extraction, tracking, and management of data defined in one or more documents. The abstraction process can include double blind data abstraction. The abstracted data can be verified using a quality assurance process that can include statistical sampling, tracked random error insertion, and abstraction auditing. Data from documents can be abstracted into one or more customizable databases, forms, templates, or software.

A scaleable abstraction control solution including an abstraction process and an abstraction system. The abstraction solution permits extraction, tracking, and management of data defined in one or more documents. The abstraction process can include double blind data abstraction. The abstracted data can be verified using a quality assurance process that can include statistical sampling, tracked random error insertion, and abstraction auditing. Data from documents can be abstracted into one or more customizable databases, forms, templates, or software.

The invention relates to a virtuality and reality combined internet-of-vehicles application scene test system and method. The scene test system comprises a sensor equipment layer, an abstract sensor interface layer, a data fusion layer, a world model layer, an application layer, a database and a scene imagination layer, wherein the sensor equipment layer is used for obtaining and sending real scene data and virtual scene data; the abstract sensor interface layer is used for separating the data fusion layer, the application layer ad the sensor equipment layer, and providing data reading interfaces for the data fusion layer, the world model layer and the application layers after the separation; the data fusion layer is connected with the abstract sensor interface layer and is used for collecting and integrating the acquired scene data; the world model layer is used for receiving the integrated scene data so as to construct a world model; the application layer is used for carrying out scene test in the world model; the database is used for storing the data; and the scene imagination layer is sued for constructing virtual scenes and importing virtual scene data into the database. Compared with the prior art, the system and method have the advantages that virtuality and reality combined scene test can be realized, the equipment transportability is strong, the scenes can be played back and the test is simple, convenient and efficient.

A method, system and article of manufacture for processing queries that are executed against a database and, more particularly, for processing aggregation queries that are executed against a database. One embodiment provides a method of constructing queries selectively capable of returning aggregation information related to data in a database. The method comprises receiving user input specifying at least one result criterion for an abstract query comprising one or more logical fields, each corresponding to a logical field specification of a data abstraction model abstractly describing the data in the database, each result criterion corresponding to a logical field for which data is to be returned, receiving user input specifying selection criteria for the abstract query, receiving user input specifying an aggregation operation to be performed with respect to the at least one result criterion for generating aggregation information, and associating the at least one result criterion with the aggregation operation in a manner allowing user selection of whether to perform the aggregation operation with respect to the at least one result criterion without requiring user-made changes to the abstract query.

A computing system employs an unicode driver to access and control peripheral devices by abstracting commands and status data to a level above register sets of similar but potentially incompatible peripheral devices. A unicode may be generated by an operating system or the unicode driver. Unicodes are routed by a device configuration interface that passes the unicodes between the unicode driver and peripheral devices. The peripheral devices include command decoders for performing conversion between unicodes and device-specific instructions. The use of unicode drivers eliminates duplicate driver code and simplifies device configuration for the computing system.

A method in a computer system executing a client application and an OODBMS and an RDBMS software, which system has a storage medium accessible by the RDBMS software and the OODBMS software being accessible by the client application. The method generates unique object identifiers in a data abstraction layer disposed between the OODBMS and the RDBMS software in response to a parent thread created by the client application. The method includes the steps of creating a child thread that has access to the RDBMS software, which child thread is used exclusively for generating object identifier numbers and for returning the same to the parent thread. A unique object identifier table is created, which is maintained by the child thread. In response to a request by the parent thread for a unique object identifier, the child thread generates a finite number of the unique object identifiers and communicates their values to the parent thread. After this, a recording is made in the table of the fact that a finite number of unique object identifiers have been generated.