Patent ID: 9692856
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving data from a data source; converting the data using a user-defined metadata schema, in approximately real time, into digital data packets, wherein the data packets have a common format, the common format including elements defined by a markup language; filtering the data packets using the user-defined metadata schema, the user-defined metadata schema not contained within the received data; storing the filtered data packets into the database based at least in part on the metadata schema; wherein the metadata schema defines the elements of the common format of the data packets according to the markup language, the types of data that the user does not wish to receive, one or more tables, one or more fields, and a plurality of relationships between the tables and fields of a database, and a mapping of a plurality of properties of the filtered data packets to the tables and fields of the database; and wherein filtering the data packets comprises modifying one or more of the data packets.