Methods and systems for a virtual marketplace or exchange for distributed signals including data correlation engines

摘要

Methods and systems for providing an automated virtualized signal marketplace or exchange for signals from distributed data sources that are controlled by a multiplicity of signal sellers or signal owners, including at least one data correlation engine that is operable for processing the signals to generate at least one correlation value relating to a specific objective for signal buyers corresponding to the behavior of the object and/or the activity and/or the event. Signals are indicators of data that are derived from data sources and abstracted to protect the underlying data. Each entity that sells data in the virtual marketplace first converts data into a “signal” or indicator that represents the data without disclosing it or providing it. Signal sellers determine if they wants share signals based upon buyer, price, and other rules, including limitations on signal use. Signal buyers determine signal value based upon their objectives.

主权项

1. A method for processing signals in a virtualized or cloud-based computing system, the method steps comprising:
providing a distributed data system having a remote server computer constructed and configured for network-based communication with a multiplicity of distributed computers; wherein the remote computer server includes at least one data correlation engine that receives at least one signal from corresponding signal owner(s) and automatically generates a signal index, which associates the at least one signal with one or more signals and data held externally by at least one other distributed computer; wherein each of the at least one signals corresponds to a state and/or a behavior of an object and/or an activity and/or an event; wherein the signal index includes a signal value for a predetermined signal use; the at least one data correlation engine processing the internal and external signals to generate at least one correlation value relating objects, events, behaviors, and states to other objects, events, behaviors and states held by a multiplicity of signal owners; wherein each correlation is maintained for each specific objective of either signal buyers or sellers; providing the signal(s) to the signal buyers permitting the predetermined signal use/purpose by the signal buyers without providing underlying data from which the signal(s) were created; and modifying the at least one correlation value based upon feedback from actual signal use by the signal buyers or other parties that act on signal data.