Patent ID: 8676859
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. A data-analysis system, implemented as one or more processors that execute one or more computer programs, comprising: a metadata-extraction component implemented at the one or more processors that extracts indications of data entities and relationships between data entities from data stored on one or more electronic-memory and mass-storage devices; a relationship-inference component, to define a keyword index including reference lists based on values of entries in a plurality of data-type compatible columns, implemented at the one or more processors that analyzes the data within two or more contexts to infer additional relationships between data entities based on mutual occurrence of a plurality of columns identified in one or more reference lists of the keyword index, wherein each context of the two or more contexts is a particular database view of the data; and a context-determination component implemented at the one or more processors that determines the two or more contexts within which the data is analyzed.