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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1997
Roy A Briscoe, Haverhill, MA (US);
Robert J Burke, Northboro, MA (US);
Thomas E Hanson, Ashland, MA (US);
Paul Holland, Natick, MA (US);
John M Moriarty, Nashua, NH (US);
Wang Laboratories, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A multi-layer abstraction bucket mechanism connected between applications programs and at least one data source and providing to the users transformations of data and the results of processes performed on the data. The multi-layer abstraction bucket mechanism includes hierarchically connected abstraction layers, each including a methods object for storing methods for performing operations on data received from a data bucket of a hierarchically next lower abstraction layer, a data operation object for selecting a method to be executed by the method object, a data bucket for storing the results of an executed method, and a map for storing information for constructing the data bucket and for relating requests to methods residing in the methods object. The mechanism includes a data extraction layer and an abstraction layer. At least one abstraction layer is a data transformation layer while others include a data processing layer and a rules transformation layer for performing the rule based decision operations. At least one abstraction layer is an encaching layer while others are data transitory.