Unstructured business metadata manager
AssigneeInmon Data Systems, Inc.
InventorWilliam Inmon
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention include methods for collecting, organizing, storing and displaying business-oriented metadata. Business metadata is metadata that uses terms of business and is meaningful to the business person. Business Metadata Manager (BMM) is a software system that collects business metadata, organizes and categorizes it, stores it into a structure, such as tables of a database, and then allows business metadata to be displayed in response to a query from an analyst or end user.
Claims22
A method of managing business metadata comprising:
- gathering business metadata;
- defining business metadata words or phrases;
- defining one or more associations for at least one of the business metadata words or phrases, wherein the one or more associations describe the business metadata word or phrase;
- storing the business metadata words or phrases and associations in one or more tables of a database;
- and
- displaying the business metadata words or phrases and associations to a user.
A method of managing business metadata comprising:
- defining a business metadata word or phrase;
- defining one or more associations corresponding to the business metadata word or phrase, wherein the one or more associations describe the business metadata word or phrase;
- and
- storing the business metadata word or phrase and the one or more associations.
A method of managing business metadata comprising:
- selecting one or more business metadata words or phrases;
- storing the one or more business metadata words or phrases;
- defining one or more associations corresponding to at least one of said one or more business metadata words or phrases, wherein a particular association describes a particular business metadata word or phrase;
- storing the one or more associations;
- accessing one or more business metadata words or phrases and corresponding one or more associations;
- and
- displaying the accessed business metadata words or phrases and the corresponding one or more associations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.