Digital Stem Cell Data Encapsulation for Database Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional databases face challenges in merging and accessing data from disparate sources with incompatible field structures, requiring expensive and complex data mapping processes, which also pose security risks due to contiguous memory storage of identifying and data fields.
Innovation Solution
The method involves deconstructing data records into tuple structures, separating them into data and fieldname parts, and creating pointers that include record and database identifiers, forming digital stem cells (DSCs) stored in a single data store, allowing for free indexing and searching irrespective of original formats or structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data mapping or translator applications are used to merge databases with incompatible field structures, then interoperability between databases is achieved, but device complexity and processing time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments data records into discrete fields with standardized metadata tags, allowing each field to be independently identified and processed. This segmentation eliminates the need for complex data mapping by enabling direct field-to-field correspondence through universal identifiers, thereby resolving the technical contradiction between interoperability and system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal field structure that can represent multiple data types and formats through standardized metadata. This universal approach allows databases with different proprietary formats to interoperate without requiring custom mapping applications, thus improving adaptability while reducing device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If data mapping or translator applications are used to merge databases with incompatible field structures, then interoperability between databases is achieved, but processing time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining standardized field structures and metadata schemas that enable direct data integration. By establishing these universal standards in advance, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming data mapping processes when integrating databases, thus resolving the contradiction between interoperability and processing time.
3Quantity of substance
If identifying fields and data fields are stored in contiguous memory locations, then storage efficiency is improved, but security is compromised as hackers can easily associate identifying information with data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the storage structure by separating identifying fields from data fields and introducing pointer-based references. This segmentation maintains storage efficiency through compact record structures while enhancing security by breaking the direct association between identifiers and sensitive data, thus resolving the technical contradiction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces pointers as intermediary elements that reference data fields without exposing direct associations. These pointers act as mediators between identifying information and actual data, maintaining storage efficiency while preventing hackers from easily associating identifying fields with sensitive data, thereby resolving the security-efficiency contradiction.
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AI summary
An example computer-implemented method and computer system, each adapted for encapsulating digital data records in multiple, differently structured and unstructured formats, the data records ingested from multiple data storage locations, is described herein. In the method, each ingested data record is separated into a plurality of tuple structures, and for each tuple, the tuple is split into a data part and fieldname part. A pointer is created by combining the fieldname part, a record identifier of the data record, and a database identifier of the storage location where the data record was stored. The pointer is appended to the data part to form a digital stem cell (DSC) that is stored in a single data store, each formed DSC having the same structure.