Patent Application

App. No. 13/162,090

Abstract

Claims (41)

1 . A method, for partitioning files on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform comprising the steps of:

storing data, received over the communications platform, in a database;

tracking a criteria for the data utilizing at least one processor;

partitioning the database into a plurality of databases based on the criteria; and

maintaining an index of the plurality of databases.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the criteria is at least one of the following:

a temporal limit, a size limit, a data source, a data type and a geographic limit.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein the index contains characteristics of the plurality of databases.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of the following:

a database name, a server name, a start time, an end time, a system path and a status identifier.

5 . The method of claim 1 further comprising:

computing the amount of free space in the plurality of database, and

storing an amount of additional information in the plurality of databases based on the computing.

6 . The method of claim 5 further comprising:

creating an additional one of a plurality of databases if the computed amount of free space is less then the amount of additional information.

7 . The method of claim wherein the database sizes of the plurality of databases is limited so that an individual database can be vacuumed using known techniques.

8 . The method of claim 7 , where the vacuuming of the individual databases can be completed within 2 to 6 hours.

9 . The method of claim 1 wherein the database sizes of the plurality of databases is limited to a size such that an NTFS compression scheme may be applied to plurality of databases

10 . A method for retrieving information from a plurality of databases on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform comprising the steps of:

creating a table comprising characteristics of the plurality of databases;

receiving a query on the machine;

processing the query with the processor to determine the location of the information within the plurality of databases based on the characteristics in the table;

retrieving the information from the plurality of databases; and

communicating that information over the communications platform back to the machine.

11 . A machine readable non-transitory and tangible medium having information recorded thereon for partitioning files on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform, to causes the machine to perform the following:

storing data, received over the communications platform, in a database;

tracking a criteria for the data utilizing at least one processor;

partitioning the database into a plurality of databases based on the criteria; and

maintaining an index of the plurality of databases.

12 . The medium of claim 11 wherein the criteria is at least one of the following:

a temporal limit, a size limit, a data source, a data type and a geographic limit.

13 . The medium of claim 11 wherein the index contains characteristics of the plurality of databases.

14 . The medium of claim 13 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of the following:

a database name, a server name, a start time, an end time, a system path and a status identifier.

15 . A system for partitioning files comprising:

a first system for implementing a first application;

a data capture system for receiving data from the first system;

a communications link for conveying the data from the first system to a data capture system;

a data partitioning system for partitioning the data into partitioned data files;

a data storage system for storing the partitioned data files, and

a data indexing system for tracking the partitioned files.

Assignments (8)