Data mining system, method and apparatus for industrial applications
OwnerChristopher O'Brieninventor
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Abstract
A data mining system directed to industrial applications gathers data remotely from a plurality of industrial plants or sites and makes the gathered data available over a network to a user running a data mining application or on-line analytical process means to generate and, if desired, visualize results. Access to a service of this nature may be made available in connection with an on-line service, such as a website, that also provides access to industrial products and services. Subscribers to the on-line service, who may be charged a fee to subscribe, may be given an incentive to continue their subscription in the form of an offer of free or reduced-cost access to the above-described data mining system during their on-line service sessions.
Claims20
A data mining apparatus for providing analysis services directed to industrial control-related data originating at a plurality of client industrial systems, the data mining system in communication with the plurality of client industrial systems, the data mining system further accessible over a network by a user, the data mining system being associated with a data warehouse and comprising at least one data mining application, the system comprising:
- a data collector adapted for collecting data from the plurality of client industrial systems;
- a data warehouse coupled to the data collection means and adapted for storing data collected from the plurality of industrial systems;
- on-line analytical processor coupled to the data warehouse and adapted for analyzing industrial systems data;
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- a user-interface for presenting to the user the results of on-line analytical processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.