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InventorsRamakrishna Satyavolu, Subhash Sankuratripati, Sampathkumar Ranganathan Pudhukottai, Sin-Mei Tsai
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A distributable software system is disclosed for collecting and aggregating data from a network and for providing compartmentalized and optimized data summaries to third parties. The system includes a data gathering layer for gathering the data; a data normalization layer for normalizing data types from multiple data sources; a data cleansing layer for correcting data inconsistencies; a data enrichment layer for rendering data analyzable; and an application interface layer for providing multiple interfaces to like multiple user applications. An enterprise utilizes the system to provide data aggregation and summary services to clients. In preferred embodiments, intelligence created from the activity is harnessed to provide and improve services and to enhance profitability of the enterprise.
A distributable software system for collecting and aggregating data from a network and for providing compartmentalized and optimized data summaries to third parties comprising:
A data engine for gathering and processing data from multiple and disparate data sources comprising;
A data management system having components distributed across a service provider site and a partner site, comprising:
A method for enabling, by a provider, client services requiring data collection for a partner enterprise at a partner site, comprising the steps of:
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The present invention is in the field of digital network information gathering from network servers and pertains more particularly to methods and apparatus for providing and operating a networked system of machines dedicated to performing automated data gathering, processing, and presentation of such data.
The information network known as the World Wide Web (WWW), which is a subset of the well-known Internet, is arguably the most complete source of publicly accessible information available. Anyone with a suitable Internet appliance such as a personal computer with a standard Internet connection may connect to the Internet and navigate to many thousands of information pages (termed web pages) stored on Internet-connected servers for the purpose of garnering information and initiating transactions with hosts of such servers and pages.
Information travels over the Internet network through many connected computers known as nodes in the art. Internet nodes include any hosted machines dedicated to performing a service such as file serving, data storing, data routing, and so on. Such nodes are generally loosely associated with each other only by universal resource locator (URL) addressing and mapped network paths.
FIG. 1 is an architectural overview of a data-gathering network, components, and connectivity according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a network diagram illustrating hierarchy and communication direction of part of the automated data-gathering system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is an architectural overview of a data-gathering network, components, and connectivity according to an embodiment of the present invention.
It was described in the background section that in order to provide a viable data gathering and presentation system for servicing a mass clientele, such a system should be dedicated, automated and possess enough processing power to fill a large and continuous user demand. To this end, the inventors provide a scaleable networked architecture that is dedicated to achieving the goals of the present invention in an automated fashion and that is transparent to the user. Such architecture is taught in enabling detail below.
FIG. 1 is an architectural overview of a data-gathering network 109 and components thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention. Network 109 comprises a Data-packet network 11, an automated data gathering system 115, a PSTN network 113, and a plurality of connected users 145.
Data-packet network 111 may be any type of wide area network (WAN) that is known in the art that is capable of data-packet communication. In this embodiment, network 111 is the well-known Internet network, and will hereinafter be referred to as Internet 111. The advantage of using Internet 111 is that it is the largest publicly-accessible data-packet medium available. Another advantage to using Internet 111 is that data communication protocols are well established and standardized. However, any data packet network may be used as long as suitable communication protocols, of which many are known, are in place. Other than the Internet such networks include private corporate Intranets and the like.