Patent ID: 6847974
Filing Date: 2005-01-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of fulfilling a data service request, the method comprising: providing an ontology description of a data service, wherein the ontology description of the data service comprises a semantic description of atomic objects associated with the data service; providing a first workflow; providing a plurality of logical search objects operably coupled via a respective one of a plurality of communications links to a respective one of a plurality of data providers and operably coupled to the first workflow; transmitting by the logical search objects to the data providers via the communications links a plurality of search requests, the search requests generated by the first workflow from the data service request; receiving by the logical search objects from the data providers via the communications link a plurality of data sets in response to the search requests; transmitting by the logical search objects to the first workflow the data sets; and generating by the first workflow a knowledge instance from the data sets using the ontology description of the data service.