System and methods for aggregating data from multiple sources
US7386565B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 24, 2004 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 10, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99943
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Computer systems often strive to retrieve and process data from multiple sources. Integration and processing of data from multiple data sources tends to increase processing demands and decrease throughput due to the additional deployment of computational resources for handling multiple sources. An executable entity, such as a bean, which accesses each data source by the location of the data objects, and retrieves data objects corresponding to rows of data, is operable to access a plurality of data sources independently of the storage medium (i.e. DBMS), or format, and aggregate multiple objects from each of the data sources into a set of compound objects, in which each compound object includes associated fields from the accessed objects of the individual data sources. The attributes of the rows (objects) from different data sources are matched according to a common attribute in each object, and the resulting compound object is aggregated into a compound object set, which represents each of objects from each of the data sources joined according to the common attribute.
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