Patent ID: 8935272
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of a curated answers system, comprising: automatically populating a profile markup page of a user with information describing an initial query of a database that the user has generated using a processor and a memory; determining that another user of the database has submitted a similar query that is semantically proximate to the initial query of the database that the user has generated; presenting the profile markup page of the user to the another user; generating a social data catalog table of information about how users are interacting with at least one of the database and a sample database; populating the social data catalog table with a meta data, a logical definition and description of attributes, information about usage, page views between users, a social data network, and a statistical data profile; extracting information from external data sources and social media profiles to generate the social data catalog table of information; and crowd sourcing information from a ranked list of knowledgeable users to generate a ranked order of priority of information presented in profile pages of the curated answers system, wherein the information about usage includes related tables and join predicates as well as relevant filters associated with each table of at least one of the database and the sample database, wherein the social data network includes a list of users who are knowledgeable about a particular object related to the another query, and wherein the information is a metadata is at least one of a schema name, a table in a schema, a name of an attribute, a data type of an attribute, a primary key associated with an attribute, a constraint of an attribute, a functional dependency between attributes, an index, a foreign key, a field name, a column name, a table name, and a query description.