US 11,455,317 B2Granted

Application programming interface and hypergraph transfer protocol supporting a global hypergraph approach to reducing complexity for accelerated multi-disciplinary scientific discovery

AssigneeGeorgetown University

InventorJ. Cory Smart

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Abstract

A system and method for connecting one or more client applications with one or more knowledge representation servers and communicating there between includes an application programming interface (API) and a hypergraph transfer protocol (HGTP), for facilitating communication between the one or more client applications and one or more knowledge representation servers responsive to a client application request. The client application request includes an API call for a specific entity that is received by a first knowledge representation server. If the first knowledge representation server does not manage the specific entity, the first knowledge representation server forwards the specific entity call to a second knowledge representation server via the HGTP using a universal unique identifier (UUID) associated with the specific entity having encoded therein a network address for the second knowledge representation server.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for connecting one or more client applications running on one or more clients with one or more knowledge representation server entities to access distributed knowledge within a knowledge space, the system comprising:

an application programming interface (API) for providing one or more of creation, access and management of entities within a knowledge space, wherein the knowledge space is shared by all users of the API and access to the knowledge space and creation and management of entities therein is provided by a predetermined set of operations;
and
a hypergraph transfer protocol (HGTP), for facilitating communication between the one or more client applications and one or more knowledge representation server entities responsive to a client application request for one or more of creation, access and management of one or more entities within the knowledge space, wherein the client application request includes an initialize session API operation for a specific one or more entities that is received by a first knowledge representation server entity that does not manage the specific entity in the knowledge space, the first knowledge representation server entity forwarding via the HGTP the specific entity call to a second knowledge representation server entity which does manage the specific entity within the knowledge space, the second knowledge representation server entity responding to the received specific entity call whereby upon receipt of the specific one or more entities by the one or more client applications the session is completed by a finalize session API operation;
and
further wherein the first and second knowledge representation server entities are non-dynamically bound to specific first and second physical server devices.

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A process for connecting one or more client applications running on one or more clients with one or more knowledge representation server entities to access distributed knowledge within a knowledge space, the system comprising:

issuing by a client application via an application programming interface (API), a request related to a specific entity associated with the knowledge space, wherein the request includes an initialize session API operation;
receiving the request at a first knowledge representation server entity which is non-dynamically bound to a first physical server device;
determining at the first knowledge representation server entity that the specific entity is managed at a second knowledge representation server entity which is non-dynamically bound to a second physical server device;
forwarding the client application request related to the specific entity to the second knowledge representation server entity using a hypergraph transfer protocol (HGTP);
retrieving from the second physical server device data responsive to the client application request and forwarding via a hypergraph transfer protocol (HGTP) a message containing the retrieved data to the first knowledge representation server entity;
receiving at the first knowledge representation server entity, the message responsive to the client application request and providing the responsive data to the client application, wherein to the client application, fulfillment of the request appears to be local;
and
ending the session by a finalize session API operation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/916,352Filed 30 Jun 2020 · continuation
Priority: 6 Jun 2016
Published: US 2020/0387521 A110 Dec 2020
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 16/26
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: visual data mining; Browsing structured data
G06F 16/2264
Indexing structures: multidimensional index structures
G06F 16/367
Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri: ontology
G06N 5/02
Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models: knowledge representation; Symbolic representation

Family

Application62/345,914Us provisional application · filed 6 Jun 2016
Application15/614,131Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jun 2017
US 2020/0387521 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Dec 2020
US 10,740,348 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0351742 A1Published application
US 11,455,317 B2This patent

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