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20110225074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AS A SERVICE VIA WEB SERVICES - Aspects are disclosed for providing information as a service via web services. Access to at least one application programming interface (API) database is facilitated and requests for a requested API are parsed. Here, such API requests facilitate a processing of data provided by at least one content provider. In an aspect, each request includes a key associated with a developer of the requested API and a unique identifier associated with a user of the requested API. A usage of the requested API is then tracked based on the key and/or unique identifier. | 09-15-2011 |
20120109937 | WEB SERVICES RUNTIME FOR DATASET TRANSFORMATION - Various aspects for providing a runtime for dataset transformation are disclosed. In one aspect, data consumption requests are received. The requested data is retrieved from a web service in an arbitrary form, and subsequently transformed into a standardized result from the arbitrary form. In another aspect, a user interface is displayed to a content provider, and an input identifying a transform function selected by the content provider is received via the user interface. A transform assembly is then generated based on the input, which facilitates retrieving data from a web service in an arbitrary form, and transforming the data into a standardized result by calling the selected transform function. In yet another aspect, third party code is associated with a transform assembly. An execution of the third party code is then managed such that at least one aspect of the transform assembly is operated according to the execution. | 05-03-2012 |
20130091138 | Contextualization, mapping, and other categorization for data semantics - Semantic categorization of data includes submitting obtained data values to a data enhancement service which has a semantic criterion for incoming data. A response from the service indicates whether the submitted data values meet the criterion, and is used to assign a likelihood that the values belong to a semantic category matching the criterion. Other semantic categorization operations do not necessarily use a data enhancement service. Some are based on which device was used to collect the data values, on a subject heading in which data was published, and/or on syntactic patterns. A semantic taxonomy shows semantic categorizations for one or more datasets and connections between datasets, possibly filtered per user request. Different versions of the taxonomy are stored for respective different users. Similarity between the data values can be assessed using semantic categorization. Taxonomies can be federated to allow exploration and understanding across multiple repositories. | 04-11-2013 |
20130110675 | Marketplace for Composite Application and Data Solutions | 05-02-2013 |
20130124372 | INTEGRATED MULTI-LICENSOR APPLICATION AND DATA PURVEYANCE - A single integrated offering includes a dataset license and a license to an application tailored for using the dataset. The dataset licensor and the application licensor are distinct entities. However, the integrated offering is electronically purveyed under a single offering price, in a public online marketplace and/or on licensor websites. In some cases, purveyance includes obtaining a purchaser's consents to the licenses, disclosing one or both of the licensors' identities, provisioning a purchaser with the dataset and the application, making payments to licensors, tax authorities, and/or other parties in response to a purchaser's payment, and reporting dataset/application usage to the licensors. Purveyor code permits cancelation of a purchase of the integrated offering only as a unified whole. | 05-16-2013 |
20130159402 | SOCIAL ASPECTS FOR DATA COLLABORATION - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for enabling users to enhance datasets available at a data service. A data service maintains and publishes datasets provided by content providers. Users may be enabled to annotate datasets maintained by the data service, and to extend the datasets. A suggestion of a dataset may be provided to users based on information received from a community of users. Users may be enabled to generate assets, such as reports and applications, based on one or more datasets of the data service. Furthermore, users may be enabled to share annotated datasets and/or extended datasets in websites, applications, and devices. | 06-20-2013 |
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20120185509 | LIMITED SUBSCRIPTION THROTTLING - Embodiments are directed to providing a plurality of data provisioning tiers for datasets and to throttling access to dataset data based on the dataset's data provisioning tiers. In an embodiment, a computer system receives an input that specifies a maximum number of queries that a user is allowed to perform on a given dataset over a specified period of time. The computer system generates data provisioning tiers for the dataset based on the received input. Each data provisioning tier indicates a maximum number of queries that the user is allowed to perform on a given dataset over a specified period of time. The computer system also applies the generated data provisioning tiers to the dataset so that the user is limited to the maximum number of queries specified in the data provisioning tier. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197963 | CONFIGURATION BASED APPROACH TO UNIFY WEB SERVICES - Brokering requests between a user and a content provider. Methods include receiving, at the middleware system, a request for data from a user that is formatted in a first request format and requests data from a content provider. The request is translated to a second request format that is compatible with the content provider and sent to the content provider. A response is received from the content provider that includes hierarchically-structured content. The hierarchically-structured content is converted into tabular content by performing first queries on the hierarchically-structured content to identify repeating nodes, and mapping the repeating nodes to rows in the tabular format, and by performing second queries on the hierarchically-structured content to identify individual columns in the tabular format. | 08-02-2012 |
20130246478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING SUBSCRIBED ACCESS TO DATA - Embodiments are directed to providing a plurality of data provisioning tiers for datasets and to throttling access to dataset data based on the dataset's data provisioning tiers. In an embodiment, a computer system receives an input that specifies a maximum number of queries that a user is allowed to perform on a given dataset over a specified period of time. The computer system generates data provisioning tiers for the dataset based on the received input. Each data provisioning tier indicates a maximum number of queries that the user is allowed to perform on a given dataset over a specified period of time. The computer system also applies the generated data provisioning tiers to the dataset so that the user is limited to the maximum number of queries specified in the data provisioning tier. | 09-19-2013 |
20140019423 | DATA LINEAGE ACROSS MULTIPLE MARKETPLACES - Tracking lineage of data. A method may be practiced in a network computing environment including a plurality of interconnected systems where data is shared between the systems. A method includes accessing a dataset. The dataset is associated with lineage metadata. The lineage metadata includes data indicating the original source of the data, one or more intermediary entities that have performed operations on the dataset, and the nature of operations performed on the dataset. A first entity performs an operation on the dataset. As a result of performing a first operation on the dataset, the method includes updating the lineage metadata to indicate that the first entity performed the operation on the dataset. The method further includes providing functionality for determining if the lineage metadata has been compromised in that the lineage metadata has been at least one of removed from association with the dataset, is corrupted, or is incomplete. | 01-16-2014 |
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20110225143 | QUERY MODEL OVER INFORMATION AS A NETWORKED SERVICE - Data is published by publishers to an information service configured to receive data sets and allow consumers to consume the data sets via queries. Structural information of the data sets (e.g., column information) is presented to the publishers to select which information of the data sets can be a search parameter and which information can be returned in query results. Query interfaces are automatically created based on the selections by the publisher, and the back end databases are optimized for such query interfaces, e.g., creation of indexes based on the search parameters or query results selected by the publisher. A query aggregator can automatically combine a given query interface with other query interfaces to form more complicated (but still permitted) queries based on the intersection of permissions for the given query interface and the other query interfaces. | 09-15-2011 |
20120096093 | AVAILABILITY MANAGEMENT FOR REFERENCE DATA SERVICES - Various aspects for scaling an availability of information are disclosed. In one aspect, a response performance associated with responding to data consumption requests is monitored. A characterization of the response performance is ascertained, and a scaling of resources is facilitated based on the characterization. In another aspect, a data consumption status indicative of data consumed is ascertained. Here, a scalability interface is provided, which displays aspects of the status, and receives an input from a content provider. An allocation of resources is then modified in response to the input. In yet another aspect, a response performance associated with responding to data consumption requests is monitored. An application programming interface (API) call is generated based on a characterization of the response performance, and transmitted to a content provider. An API response is then received from the content provider indicating whether a scaling of resources for hosting the data was performed. | 04-19-2012 |