Aggregate data view
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsCharles Parker, Eray Chou, Zhenguang Chen
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media implementing various aspects of data retrieval, transformation, data interrelationship inference, and aggregate data view generation are disclosed. The aggregate data view may incorporate data sources from geographically disparate servers, and in different data formats. The aggregate data view may further be converted into HTML and published on the web.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method for inferring data source interrelationships comprising:
- receiving two or more data source selections;
- scanning at least one of the selected data sources for one or more semantic relationships;
- and
- displaying two or more data sources linked via the one or more semantic relationships.
A system for generating aggregate data views comprising:
- an I/O module for receiving input and displaying output;
- an inference module for generating data source relationship inferences;
- a retrieval/conversion module for automatically retrieving data from a data source, and automatically transforming said data to a common format;
- a view generation module for generating an aggregate data view;
- and
- a publication module for publishing the aggregate data view.
A computer readable medium accessible to a computing system and encoding a computer program for generating an aggregate data view comprising:
- receiving a specification of a plurality of data sources;
- automatically retrieving data from a plurality of data sources;
- automatically transforming the retrieved data to a common format;
- receiving field link data;
- and
- generating a view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.