REVERSE API ENDPOINT CREATION PROCESS

摘要

A reverse API system is provided wherein data retrieved from disparate data sources, including legacy information in obsolete formats, are standardized and combined. An interactive text editor software tool allows an administrator to compose or edit standardization schema that include data source formulas which identify the data locations and any needed access protocols and that also include standardization functions which define transformations and other data handling instructions whereby retrieved data is standardized, unified and optionally enhanced by the system prior to delivery to a requestor. Requestors invoke the composed schema stored in a library, which invocation then triggers the retrieval and standardization of the data by the system executing the data source formulas and standardization functions associated with that selected schema.

主权项

1. A computer-mediated system for gathering, standardizing, unifying and delivering a user-desired data set from one or more data source locations, comprising:
an interactive text editor software tool executed on a computer for use by an administrator to compose and maintain a library of standardization schema, each schema stored in the library containing a set of data source formulas providing instructions for the system to locate and retrieve data from one or more data sources, each schema also containing a set of data standardization functions providing instructions for the system to handle and process data retrieved from the data sources; a requestor software tool executed on the same or another computer of the system for accessing the library such that a requestor invokes a selected one of the stored schema; and the same or another computer of the system, responsive to a requestor invoked schema, executing the set of data source formulas of the invoked schema so as to retrieve data and executing the set of data standardization functions of the invoked-schema so as to standardize and unify the retrieved data for delivery to the requestor.