Patent ID: 8972452
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of implementing a data feeds platform, comprising: receiving, using a processor, data in one of a plurality of heterogeneous data formats; based upon a data feeds protocol that specifies a feed header specifying attributes necessary to identify a new data feed, the data feeds protocol further specifying a data header specifying data nodes, the data header delineating an external data structure, each data node having an internal data structure, and wherein the feed header defines at least a scope of the data feed, the scope being either “valid until the next update”, or “valid for the effective date,” and at least an as-of date, indicating a date to which the data feed is being transmitted, the method further including, using the processor, extracting storing, using the processor, the data in a data section of the data feed according to the external data structure of the data header; and transmitting the new data feed to a data warehouse.