Web 2.0 system and method for dynamic categorization of heterogeneous and regulated enterprise assets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9646083-B2
Application number	US-94968007-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 3, 2007
Priority date	Dec 3, 2007
Publication date	May 9, 2017
Grant date	May 9, 2017

Abstract

A system and method for the dynamic categorization of heterogeneous, regulated enterprise information assets. In one embodiment of the invention a system includes a computer network controlled by an enterprise and a database including a plurality of enterprise data entities. A user interface, through which a plurality of enterprise users may access the enterprise data entities, is also used by the plurality of users to assign user-defined categories to the enterprise data entities. The user interface is configured to enable a plurality of the users to access and assign additional user-defined categories to enterprise data entities having user-defined categories previously assigned by other users.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method, comprising:
maintaining, in a computational device, an enterprise class business glossary that defines and categorizes business categories and terms in a selected domain for an enterprise;
associating a plurality of predefined categories derived from the enterprise class business glossary with an enterprise data entity;
subsequent to associating the plurality of predefined categories with the enterprise data entity, tagging via one or more words, by one or more users, the enterprise data entity to associate a user defined category to the enterprise data entity; and
in response to a removal of an association between the enterprise data entity and the user defined category via an action performed by a user, tracing back the action and restoring the association between the enterprise data entity and the user defined category, the method further comprising:
presenting, via a graphical user interface, to a selected user, a list of tables that are catalogued in a metadata repository in which the enterprise data entity and the user defined category are stored, wherein a table represents a selected enterprise data entity;
tagging, by the selected user, the table with a title to create a new user defined category, where the new user defined category includes an identification of the selected user;
storing the new user defined category in the metadata repository and linking to the enterprise data entity to indicate a relationship;
using the relationship, creating a custom navigation view that includes user defined categories that were previously created by the selected user via tagging operations; and
navigating, by the selected user, enterprise data entities via the custom navigation view, wherein a tagging process view enables the selected user to select one table from the list of tables and a window for entering user defined categories.

2. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:
maintaining a security model for the enterprise data entity in the metadata repository;
maintaining a user model in the metadata repository, wherein the user model defines a user role for selected users with regard to the enterprise data entity; and
ensuring access restrictions on the enterprise data entity via the security model and the user model.

3. The method of claim 2 , the method further comprising:
restricting access to the user defined category to selected users of a plurality of users.

4. The method of claim 3 , the method further comprising:
providing locking and concurrency control in the metadata repository to enable concurrent classification of the enterprise data entity by more than one user.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user defined category for the enterprise data entity is different from any of the predefined categories associated with the enterprise data entity.

6. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:
sharing, by the user, the user defined category for the enterprise data entity with a predefined group of users.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user defined category is a first user defined category, the method further comprising:
generating a second user defined category by the one or more users; and
generating, in a graphical user interface, a navigation view that includes the first user defined category and the second user defined category; and
generating a tagging view to enable the one or more users to add a third user defined category.

8. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:
tagging, a table via a title in the graphical user interface, to generate at least one user defined category.

9. A system, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor performs operations, the operations comprising:
maintaining an enterprise class business glossary that defines and categorizes business categories and terms in a selected domain for an enterprise;
associating a plurality of predefined categories derived from the enterprise class business glossary with an enterprise data entity;
subsequent to associating the plurality of predefined categories with the enterprise data entity, tagging via one or more words, by one or more users, the enterprise data entity to associate a user defined category to the enterprise data entity; and
in response to a removal of an association between the enterprise data entity and the user defined category via an action performed by a user, tracing back the action and restoring the association between the enterprise data entity and the user defined category, the operations further comprising:
presenting, via a graphical user interface, to a selected user, a list of tables that are catalogued in a metadata repository in which the enterprise data entity and the user defined category are stored, wherein a table represents a selected enterprise data entity:
tagging, by the selected user, the table with a title to create a new user defined category, where the new user defined category includes an identification of the selected user;
storing the new user defined category in the metadata repository and linking to the enterprise data entity to indicate a relationship;
using the relationship, creating a custom navigation view that includes user defined categories that were previously created by the selected user via tagging operations; and
navigating, by the selected user, enterprise data entities via the custom navigation view, wherein a tagging process view enables the selected user to select one table from the list of tables and a window for entering user defined categories.

10. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
maintaining a security model for the enterprise data entity in the metadata repository;
maintaining a user model in the metadata repository, wherein the user model defines a user role for selected users with regard to the enterprise data entity; and
ensuring access restrictions on the enterprise data entity via the security model and the user model.

11. The system of claim 10 , the operations further comprising:
restricting access to the user defined category to selected users of a plurality of users.

12. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
providing locking and concurrency control in the metadata repository to enable concurrent classification of the enterprise data entity by more than one user.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the user defined category for the enterprise data entity is different from any of the predefined categories associated with the enterprise data entity.

14. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
sharing, by the user, the user defined category for the enterprise data entity with a predefined group of users.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the user defined category is a first user defined category, the operations further comprising:
generating a second user defined category by the one or more users; and
generating, in a graphical user interface, a navigation view that includes the first user defined category and the second user defined category; and
generating a tagging view to enable the one or more users to add a third user defined category.

16. The system of claim 15 , the operations further comprising:
tagging, a table via a title in the graphical user interface, to generate at least one user defined category.

17. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a comput

Assignees

• Agrawal Geetika
• Honzal Benjamin
• Labrie Jacques Joseph
• Roth Mary Ann
• IBM

Inventors

• Agrawal Geetika
• Honzal Benjamin
• Labrie Jacques Joseph
• Roth Mary Ann

Classifications

• G06F16/38 Primary

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06F17/30722 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic