Here Global B.v.

Oracle America, Inc.

Alexey Yakubovich

Yekesa Kosuru

Boris Lublinsky

Rajiv Synghal

Senthil Natesan

Ravi Mannava

Alex V Maclinovsky

Michael S Jenkins, Jr

An approach is provided for providing a unified extensible platform for overall probe data and storage. The approach comprises causing, at least in part, a storage of probe data in one or more information spaces, one or more namespaces of the one or more information spaces, or a combination thereof. The approach further comprises determining one or more nodes for processing the probe data based, at least in part, on one or more context criteria, the one or more nodes associated with the one or more information spaces. The approach also comprises determining to provide access to the processed probe data via the one or more information spaces, the one or more namespaces, or a combination thereof.

Method and apparatus for processing probe data

An approach is provided for generating accurate and substantially real-time map and location-based data in a cost-effective manner. Specifically, one or more communications within one or more social networks are monitored, processed, and mined to determine map-related information (e.g., maps, traffic, points of interest). The map-related information is then subjected to one or more threshold criteria (e.g., a correctness probability, a level of confidence, a degree of trust, an author's influence, a rating, or a combination thereof) to better ensure its accuracy before being made available to mapping and/or location-based services that can use the map-related information to develop better quality maps and/or location-based mobile applications (e.g., improved routing guidance, location recommendations, etc.). By providing mapping and location-based services with accurate and real-time map and location-based data, the services can fulfill user's increasing expectation and demand for up-to-the-minute information.

Method and apparatus for generating real-time map and location-based data

A service governance framework may provide a platform for development and hosting of virtual service offerings and generation of interfaces to operations thereof, dependent on configurable functional parameters and/or non-functional aspects associated therewith. Virtualization techniques may be applied at an endpoint level, binding level, message level, operation level, and/or service level at design time, and supported with corresponding changes at runtime. Users having various roles may access the framework to specify operations of services provided by computing service sources to include in a virtual service offering, specify configuration parameter values associated with them, and/or specify a contract of non-functional aspect clauses for the virtual service offering. The framework may produce the interface by modifying an interface provided by the computing service sources (e.g., a WSDL). The framework may include aspect enforcement methods and an underlying common information model, and may support versioning and life cycles of service offerings and/or components.

System and method for service virtualization in a service governance framework

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Alexey Yakubovich