Patents Assigned to MetaEdge Corporation
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Patent number: 7007029Abstract: According to the invention, techniques for visualizing customer data contained in databases, data marts and data warehouses. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides a system for graphically analyzing relationships in data from one or more data sources of an enterprise. The system can be used with many popular visualization tools, such as On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools and the like. The system is especially useful in conjunction with a meta-model based technique for modeling the enterprise data. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also be other loci of human activity. Embodiments according to the invention can display data from a variety of sources in order to provide visual representations of data in a data warehousing environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2000Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: MetaEdge CorporationInventor: Li-Wen Chen
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Publication number: 20040158576Abstract: According to the invention, techniques for profiling of human behavior based upon analyzing data contained in databases, data marts and data warehouses. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides for creating a dynamic customer profile by analyzing relationships in data from one or more data sources of an enterprise. The method can be used with many popular visualization tools, such as On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools and the like. The method is especially useful in conjunction with a meta-model based technique for modeling the enterprise data. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also be other loci of human activity. The human behavior profiled is typically that of a customer, but can be any other type of human behavior. Embodiments according to the invention can display data from a variety of sources in order to provide visual representations of data in a data warehousing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2004Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: METAEDGE CORPORATIONInventors: Li-Wen Chen, Hwa Chung Feng
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Patent number: 6741995Abstract: According to the invention, techniques for profiling of human behavior based upon analyzing data contained in databases, data marts and data warehouses. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides for creating a dynamic customer profile by analyzing relationships in data from one or more data sources of an enterprise. The method can be used with many popular visualization tools, such as On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools and the like. The method is especially useful in conjunction with a meta-model based technique for modeling the enterprise data. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also be other loci of human activity. The human behavior profiled is typically that of a customer, but can be any other type of human behavior. Embodiments according to the invention can display data from a variety of sources in order to provide visual representations of data in a data warehousing environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Metaedge CorporationInventors: Li-Wen Chen, Hwa Chung Feng
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Publication number: 20040034666Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for analyzing and managing information having a spatial component. In specific embodiments, the present invention provides techniques for creating meta models based upon virtual schemas, which can be used to analyze a wide variety of information, including information having a spatial component, as well as information about one or more centric entities, including business entities, technical entities, and governmental entities. Specific embodiments provide systems, methods, computer programs and apparatus for developing and defining meta models suited to the user's particular application requirements, deducing from the meta model(s) meta data, and populating databases with data objects in accordance with the meta data derived from the defined meta model(s). Specific embodiments enable users to analyze information having spatial components in a variety of business, technical and governmental applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: February 19, 2004Applicant: MetaEdge CorporationInventor: Li-Wen Chen
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Publication number: 20030115211Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for analyzing and managing information having a spatial component. Techniques such as virtual schemas can be used to create meta models for analyzing spatial information, in conjunction with information about other centric entities, including business entities, technical entities, and governmental entities. Specific embodiments provide systems, methods, computer programs and apparatus for populating databases in accordance with the defined meta models and analyzing information having spatial components in a variety of business, technical and governmental applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2001Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: MetaEdge CorporationInventors: Li-Wen Chen, Victor Luu
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Publication number: 20020136204Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for routing network traffic based upon application information. Specific embodiments provide users, such as businesspersons or other professionals with the capability to understand relationships among customers or clients, for example, and to manipulate traffic in enterprise network resources based upon these relationships. Various network applications, such as HTTP, SNMP, and the like, are supported by specific embodiments. Content-based routing methods can direct network traffic based on the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which may contain an HTTP cookie in certain embodiments. Accordingly, novel ways to define the cookie by including the application data obtained from customer data analysis can be used with specific embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Applicant: MetaEdge CorporationInventors: Li-wen Chen, Ron-Chung Hu
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Patent number: 6411961Abstract: According to the invention, techniques for organizing information from systems in a data warehousing environment are provided. In a particular embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus for analyzing data in at least data source of an enterprise. The apparatus can include a meta model for an enterprise. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also be other loci of human activity. A data schema derived from the meta model can also be part of the apparatus. The apparatus can also include a database organized according to the data schema. The apparatus can translate data from a variety of sources to the data schema. The apparatus can incorporate data into the database and perform a variety of analyses on the data in the database.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: MetaEdge CorporationInventor: Li-Wen Chen
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Patent number: 6377934Abstract: According to the invention, techniques for organizing information from systems in a data warehousing environment are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides a method for analyzing data from one or more data sources of an enterprise. The method provides a meta-model based technique for modeling the enterprise data. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also be other loci of human activity. Embodiments according to the invention can translate data from a variety of sources to particular database schema in order to provide organization to a data warehousing environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: MetaEdge CorporationInventors: Li-Wen Chen, Juan J. Ortiz
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Patent number: 6363353Abstract: According to the invention, techniques for organizing information from systems in a data warehousing environment are provided. In a particular embodiment, the invention provides a system for analyzing data in at least data source of an enterprise. The system includes a variety of steps, such as a step of providing a meta model for an enterprise. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also be other loci of human activity. A step of forming a data schema from the meta model is also part of the system. The system also includes creating a database organized to the data schema. Translating data from a variety of sources to the data schema is also part of the system. A step of incorporating data into the database is part of the system. The system can also include a step of performing analysis on the data in the database. The combination of these steps can organize information in a data warehousing environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: MetaEdge CorporationInventor: Li-Wen Chen