Generic Data State Transfer Interface for Reporting Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data management source systems and reporting systems lack the capability to communicate status changes of enterprise data and information effectively, leading to inconsistencies and increased complexity in processing and handling status changes across multiple data sources and staging areas.
Innovation Solution
A generic data state transfer interface is implemented, using a customizable mapping function and a single staging area to manage status changes, allowing for efficient data and information transfer between reporting systems and data management source systems, reducing the need to monitor multiple data sources and improving data consistency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple data sources and multiple staging areas are used across multiple applications, then data can be managed in application-specific ways, but the complexity of monitoring and collecting status changes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data status interface that can be used across multiple applications and data sources. This interface provides a standardized way to monitor and collect status changes regardless of the specific application or data source, eliminating the need for application-specific monitoring mechanisms while maintaining adaptability through configuration options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a staging area as an intermediary component between multiple data sources and multiple applications. This staging area consolidates status change information from various sources and makes it available to multiple applications in a standardized format, reducing the complexity of direct monitoring between each data source and application pair.
2Loss of information
If multiple data sources are processed, then comprehensive data coverage is achieved, but the need to process multiple data sources increases complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges status change information from multiple data sources into a single staging area. This consolidation allows comprehensive data coverage to be achieved while reducing processing complexity, as the staging area provides a unified view of all status changes that can be processed by a single interface rather than requiring separate processing for each data source.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal data status interface is designed to work with multiple data sources through a standardized mechanism. This allows the system to comprehensively process data from multiple sources while maintaining consistent processing logic, thereby reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from handling each data source differently.
3Measurement precision
If status information is distributed across multiple sources, then data-specific status tracking is possible, but inconsistencies in status information occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the staging area continuously receives status change notifications from multiple data sources and maintains a consolidated view. This feedback loop ensures that all applications receive consistent status information while preserving the ability to track data-specific status changes, as the staging area processes and standardizes the information before distributing it.
Solution Approach 2:
The staging area acts as an intermediary that receives status information from multiple data sources and distributes it to multiple applications in a standardized format. This intermediary role ensures consistency across the system while maintaining the ability to track specific data status changes, as all status information passes through the staging area which enforces a unified view.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are used for providing a generic data state transfer interface to the state of data and information for a reporting system. As an example, a generic data status request is received, by a generic data source access function of a backend source system, from a reporting system. In response to the generic data status request being received, a first set of notifications is retrieved, by the generic data source access function, from a first source database. Each notification of the first set of notifications to each corresponding target notification of a set of target notifications in a generic data status response is mapped, by the generic data source access function, using a customizable mapping function based on a specific application of a plurality of applications in each notification. The generic data status response is transmitted, by the generic data source access function, to the reporting system.