Big data analytics brokerage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9495405-B2
Application number	US-201414263295-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2014
Priority date	Apr 28, 2014
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a query;
establishing a target confidence level for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query;
assigning a plurality of confidence levels to a plurality of analytics engines, the plurality of confidence levels comprising a respective confidence level for each analytics engine in the plurality of analytics engines;
selecting a prelimina…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Alexander Tabari H
• Bivens John A
• Buzzetti Michael C
• Chan Yuk L
• Washington Derrick L

Classifications

• G06F16/2336 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30359 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic