Patent ID: 11971891
Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. A method for reducing usage of computational resources when accessing siloed data across disparate locations via a unified metadata graph, the method comprising:
receiving, at a graphical user interface (GUI), a user-specified query indicating a request to access a set of data objects, wherein each data object of the set of data objects is stored in a respective data silo of a set of data silos among disparate locations;
performing natural language processing on the user-specified query to determine a set of phrases corresponding to the user-specified query;
accessing a metadata graph to determine a node corresponding to the set of phrases, wherein the metadata graph comprises (i) a set of nodes comprising (a) metadata indicating internal data objects stored in data silos and (b) location identifiers of the data silos, and (ii) edges indicating data lineages of the set of nodes, wherein the metadata graph is generated using a metadata data structure that is based on file-level and container-level metadata identifiers;
determining a data silo storing at least one data object of the set of data objects using the location identifier corresponding to the determined node to obtain the at least one data object of the set of data objects via the data silo; and
generating, for display, on the GUI, a visual representation of the at least one data object.