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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1999
John Duncan Bankier, Glasgow, GB;
Charles Allan Beck, Glasgow, GB;
Andrew Craig Brind, Glagow, GB;
David John Brown, Glasgow, GB;
Kristy Irene Brown, Glasgow, GB;
John Dominic Burns, Glasgow, GB;
Peter James Docherty, Glasgow, GB;
John Michael Gilchrist, Glasgow, GB;
Timothy Simon Jones, Boston, MA (US);
Gordon McIntyre, East Kilbride, GB;
Alan John Ryman, Glasgow, GB;
William Wallace, Glasgow, GB;
thinkAnalytics Ltd, Glasgow, GB;
Abstract
A computer-based method and apparatus for knowledge discovery from databases. The disclosed method involves the user creation of a project plan comprising a plurality of operational components adapted to cooperatively extract desired information from a database. In one embodiment, the project plan is created within a graphical user interface and consists of objects representing the various functional components of the overall plan interconnected by links representing the flow of data from the data source to a data sink. Data visualization components may be inserted essentially anywhere in the project plan. One or more data links in the project plan may be designated as caching links which maintain copies of the data flowing across them, such that the cached data is available to other components in the project plan. In one embodiment, compression technology is applied to reduce the overall size of the database.