Flexible Graph System for Accessing Organization Information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016110412-A1
Application number	US-201414523321-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 24, 2014
Priority date	Oct 16, 2014
Publication date	Apr 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and apparatus for accessing a graph database having nodes and relationships describing an organization. An interface in a computer system receives a request from a client to access information about the organization. Further, the interface in the computer system retrieves the information from the graph database having nodes and relationships describing the organization. Still further, the interface in the computer system sends a portion of the information to the client based on how much of the information is displayable by the client.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer system comprising:
a graph database having nodes and relationships describing an organization; and an interface that receives a request from a client to access information about the organization; retrieves the information from the graph database; and sends a portion of the information to the client based on how much of the information is displayable by the client.

2 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the request is a first request and the interface receives a second request from the client for additional information, wherein the interface sends the additional information from information retrieved and cached from the first request from the client when the additional information is located in the information; retrieves the additional information from the graph database when the additional information is absent from the information retrieved and cached; and sends a portion of the additional information to the client based on how much of the additional information is displayable by the client.

3 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the portion of the information is selected from one of all of the information retrieved from the graph database or part of the information retrieved from the graph database.

4 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the interface identifies how much of the information is displayable by the client.

5 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the nodes comprise employees in the organization, departments in the organization, and positions for the employees, and wherein the relationships comprise a group of relationships between the employees and the positions and between the positions and the departments.

6 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the interface or the graph database determines whether the client has permission to access the portion of the information from the graph database prior to sending the portion of the information to the client.

7 . The computer system of claim 6 , wherein in determining whether the client has the permission to access the portion of the information from the graph database, at least one of the interface or the graph database looks up permissions for the client in a table of permissions for clients.

8 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the interface retrieves the information from the graph database when the information is not located in a cache, and further comprising:
a cache manager that receives a notification that the client has accessed the interface; retrieves the portion of the information from the graph database based on prior requests for information received from at least one of the client or other clients; and stores the portion in the cache.

9 . The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the notification that the client has accessed the interface comprises a client identifier, the cache manager retrieves a profile for portions of the information that match the client identifier, and the cache manager identifies the portion based on the profile.

10 . A method for accessing a graph database having nodes and relationships describing an organization; the method comprising:
receiving, by an interface in a computer system, a request from a client to access information about the organization; retrieving, by the interface in the computer system, the information from the graph database having the nodes and the relationships describing the organization; and sending, by the interface in the computer system, a portion of the information to the client based on how much of the information is displayable by the client.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the request is a first request and the interface receives a second request from the client for additional information and further comprising:
sending, by the interface in the computer system, a portion of the additional information from the information retrieved and cached from the first request from the client when the additional information is located in the information wherein the portion of the additional information is based on how much of the additional information is displayable by the client; and retrieving, by the interface in the computer system, the additional information from the graph database when the additional information is absent from the information retrieved and cached; and sending, by the interface in the computer system, the portion of the additional information retrieved from the graph database to the client based on how much of the additional information is displayable by the client.

12 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the portion of the information is selected from one of all of the information retrieved from the graph database or part of the information retrieved from the graph database.

13 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the interface identifies how much of the information is displayable by the client.

14 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the interface retrieves the information from the graph database when the information is not located in a cache, and further comprising:
receiving a notification that the client has accessed the interface; retrieving the portion of the information from the graph database based on prior requests for information received from at least one of the client or other clients; and storing the portion in the cache.

15 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the nodes comprise employees in the organization, departments in the organization, and positions for the employees, and wherein the relationships comprise a group of relationships between the employees and the positions and between the positions and the departments.

16 . The method of claim 10 , wherein at least one of the interface or the graph database determines whether the client has permission to access the portion of the information from the graph database prior to sending the portion of the information to the client.

17 . A computer program product for displaying information about an organization on a display system, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage media; first program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for receiving a request from a client to access the information about the organization; second program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for retrieving the information from a graph database having nodes and relationships describing the organization; and third program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for sending a portion of the information to the client based on how much of the information is displayable by the client.

18 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the request is a first request and an interface receives a second request from the client for additional information and further comprising:
fourth program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for sending a portion of the additional information from the information retrieved and cached from the first request from the client when the additional information is located in the information wherein the portion of the additional information is based on how much of the additional information is displayable by the client; and fifth program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for retrieving the additional information from the graph database when the additional information is absent from the information retrieved and cached; and sixth program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for sending the portion of the additi

Assignees

• Adp Llc

Inventors

• Sun Michael
• Sabino Siobhan Loughman
• Kim Daniel Daehyun
• Melo Jason F

Classifications

• G06F16/9024

  Graphs; Linked lists (G06F16/9027 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06Q10/00

  Administration; Management · CPC title

• G06F21/6218

  to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database · CPC title

• G06F16/284

  Relational databases · CPC title