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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 25, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian Liensberger, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ziv Kasperski, Redmond, WA (US);
Stéphane Nyombayire, Bellevue, WA (US);
Venkatesh Krishnan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Santosh Balasubramanian, Seattle, WA (US);
Kunal Mukerjee, Redmond, WA (US);
Shankar L. Regunathan, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for forming data responsive to a query. Responding to a query can include selecting data views on top of data sources. A data catalog stores data elements from different data sources and stores links between data elements from the different data sources. A view can be selected for a query based on one or more of: classification of data included in the data catalog or prior usage of data included in the data catalog. A selected data view is populated with data elements from the data catalog using the links to determine that data elements spanning multiple data sources satisfy the query. The data catalog can be used to identify relationships between data elements from different data sources that would not otherwise be identified.