US 8,554,777 B2Granted

Content storage mapping

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsWilliam A. Brown, Daniel D. Carr, Richard William Muirhead, Francis Xavier Reddington, Martin Andrew Wolfe

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

A data storage method and system. The method includes defining, by a computing system, a meta-object, a schema based structured definition for the meta-object, and a taxonomy with configuration data. The computing system creates content associated with the taxonomy and associates topics of the content with a logical storage room representations. Reference coordinates associated with the logical storage room representations are associated with the taxonomy. The computing system generates updated configuration data that includes the reference coordinates and a uniform resource identifier associated with the content is generated. The computing system generates an account associated with the meta-object for a user. Metering charges for usage of the account and a report associated with the account and usage are generated.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

defining, by a computing system, a user accessible meta-object referencing contextual content, wherein said user accessible meta-object comprises a functional operation referenced object, a service referenced object, or a content specific referenced object;
defining, by said computing system, a schema based structured definition for said user accessible meta-object;
defining, by said computing system from said schema based structured definition, a predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy and a configuration data map associated with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
determining, by said computing system, that content is required for said computing system;
creating, by a processor of said computing system, said content, wherein said content comprises user accessible contextual content associated with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
associating, by said computing system, user accessible topics of relevant tangible content of said content with specified logical storage room representations, wherein each storage room of said specified logical storage room representations comprises contextual content storage address spaces;
associating, by said computing system, reference coordinates with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy, wherein said reference coordinates are associated with said specified logical storage room representations;
determining, by said computing system, a change associated with a relative point of view associated with each node of said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
updating, by said computing system, said configuration data map, wherein said updating said configuration data map comprises generating updated configuration data, wherein said updated configuration data comprises reference coordinate pointers pointing to the contextual content storage address spaces, and wherein the contextual content storage address spaces are comprised by a plurality of different storage mediums and a plurality of different physical storage locations;
generating, by said computing system, a uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with said content enabling a direct internal access mapping to the contextual content storage address spaces associated with said reference coordinate pointers;
determining, by said computing system, metering charges for usage of an account per paid subscription to the user accessible contextual content;
applying, by said computing system, key performance indicators to transactional analysis usage patterns of said user accessible contextual content;
generating, by said computing system, a report associated with said account, said transactional analysis usage patterns, and said usage;
presenting, by said computing system, analysis of said report via a dashboard view;
and
storing, by said computing system, said report.

13 more elements

A computing apparatus comprising a processor coupled to a computer-readable memory unit, said memory unit comprising instructions that when executed by the processor implements a method comprising:

defining, by said computing system, a user accessible meta-object referencing contextual content, wherein said user accessible meta-object comprises a functional operation referenced object, a service referenced object, or a content specific referenced object;
defining, by said computing system, a schema based structured definition for said user accessible meta-object;
defining, by said computing system from said schema based structured definition, a predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy and a configuration data map associated with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
determining, by said computing system, that content is required for said computing system;
creating, by a processor of said computing system, said content, wherein said content comprises user accessible contextual content associated with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
associating, by said computing system, user accessible topics of relevant tangible content of said content with specified logical storage room representations, wherein each storage room of said specified logical storage room representations comprises contextual content storage address spaces;
associating, by said computing system, reference coordinates with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy, wherein said reference coordinates are associated with said specified logical storage room representations;
determining, by said computing system, a change associated with a relative point of view associated with each node of said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
updating, by said computing system, said configuration data map, wherein said updating said configuration data map comprises generating updated configuration data, wherein said updated configuration data comprises reference coordinate pointers pointing to the contextual content storage address spaces, and wherein the contextual content storage address spaces are comprised by a plurality of different storage mediums and a plurality of different physical storage locations;
generating, by said computing system, a uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with said content enabling a direct internal access mapping to the contextual content storage address spaces associated with said reference coordinate pointers;
determining, by said computing system, metering charges for usage of an account per paid subscription to the user accessible contextual content;
applying, by said computing system, key performance indicators to transactional analysis usage patterns of said user accessible contextual content;
generating, by said computing system, a report associated with said account, said transactional analysis usage patterns, and said usage;
presenting, by said computing system, analysis of said report via a dashboard view;
and
storing, by said computing system, said report.

13 more elements

A computer program product, comprising a computer readable storage device storing a computer readable program code, said computer readable program code configured to perform method upon being executed by a computer processor of a computing system, said method comprising:

defining, by said computing system, a user accessible meta-object referencing contextual content, wherein said user accessible meta-object comprises a functional operation referenced object, a service referenced object, or a content specific referenced object;
defining, by said computing system, a schema based structured definition for said user accessible meta-object;
defining, by said computing system from said schema based structured definition, a predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy and a configuration data map associated with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
determining, by said computing system, that content is required for said computing system;
creating, by a processor of said computing system, said content, wherein said content comprises user accessible contextual content associated with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
associating, by said computing system, user accessible topics of relevant tangible content of said content with specified logical storage room representations, wherein each storage room of said specified logical storage room representations comprises contextual content storage address spaces;
associating, by said computing system, reference coordinates with said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy, wherein said reference coordinates are associated with said specified logical storage room representations;
determining, by said computing system, a change associated with a relative point of view associated with each node of said predefined user access content mapped hierarchical taxonomy;
updating, by said computing system, said configuration data map, wherein said updating said configuration data map comprises generating updated configuration data, wherein said updated configuration data comprises reference coordinate pointers pointing to the contextual content storage address spaces, and wherein the contextual content storage address spaces are comprised by a plurality of different storage mediums and a plurality of different physical storage locations;
generating, by said computing system, a uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with said content enabling a direct internal access mapping to the contextual content storage address spaces associated with said reference coordinate pointers;
determining, by said computing system, metering charges for usage of an account per paid subscription to the user accessible contextual content;
applying, by said computing system, key performance indicators to transactional analysis usage patterns of said user accessible contextual content;
generating, by said computing system, a report associated with said account, said transactional analysis usage patterns, and said usage;
presenting, by said computing system, analysis of said report via a dashboard view;
and
storing, by said computing system, said report.

13 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/448,511Filed 17 Apr 2012 · continuation
Priority: 27 Oct 2009
Published: US 2012/0203802 A19 Aug 2012
Granted: 8 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 16/2465
Special types of queries, e.g. statistical queries, fuzzy queries or distributed queries: query processing support for facilitating data mining…
G06F 16/211
Design, administration or maintenance of databases: schema design and management
G06F 16/2291
Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures: user-Defined Types; Storage management thereof
G06F 16/435
Querying: filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles

Family

Application12/606,260Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Oct 2009
US 8,229,936 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Jul 2012
US 2012/0203802 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Aug 2012
US 2011/0099207 A1Published application
US 8,554,777 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.