System and method for unified data access of financial data
AssigneeReuters America, Inc.
InventorsMartin Hill, John Merrick, Tong-Liang Zhang, Vladimir Vints
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Abstract
A system for accessing financial data that is suitable for data of different formats from disparate sources. Real-time financial information or data is stored and arranged in a data model with table and column schema in a standard suitable for use with an OLE DB provider programmed to access financial information. Accordingly, different types of financial information from disparate sources may be integrated and readily accessed. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a real-time OLE DB provider data model that is divided into different tables categorized into records, pages, time series and context information.
Claims27
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data model for providing real-time access to financial information using an Object Linking and Embedding database provider, comprising;
- a real-time record table comprising a record service for a source of financial information, the record service comprising information concerning one or more records each having a record name;
- a time series table comprising an item having an item name, the item name being substantially the same as one of the record names;
- a page table comprising a service name for the source of financial information;
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- a context table comprising at least one of the record service, the time series service, and the page service.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data model for providing real-time access to financial information using and Object Linking and Embedding database provider, comprising;
- real-time record tables for providing information concerning financial data records, each one of the data records corresponding to a financial information source;
- time series tables for providing information concerning historical data over a predetermined time period for one or more of the financial data records;
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- page tables for providing information for text pages concerning one or more of the financial data records.
A method for accessing financial information comprising:
- receiving financial information from a first financial service;
- and
- storing the first service financial information on a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data model, the data model comprising:
- real-time record tables providing information concerning financial data records;
- time series tables providing information concerning historical data over a predetermined time period;
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- page tables providing information concerning text pages.
A database provider for accessing financial market data comprising:
- a computer-readable medium;
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- a processor in communication with the computer-readable medium, the processor performing steps according to instructions stored on the computer-readable medium comprising:
- receiving financial information from a first financial service;
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- storing the first service financial information on the computer-readable medium in a data model comprising:
- real-time record tables providing information concerning financial data records;
- time series tables providing information concerning historical data over a predetermined time period;
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- page tables providing information concerning text pages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.