Relational database system for storing different types of data

Patent 5551025 Issued on August 27, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date:

November 30, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

MCI Communications Corporation

Application

No. 350186 filed on 11/30/1994

US Classes:

707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)379/88.09, Statistical analysis (e.g., time, date, length of message, etc.)379/88.17, Interaction with an external nontelephone network (e.g., Internet)714/25Fault locating (i.e., diagnosis or testing)

Examiners

Primary: Black, Thomas G.
Assistant: Pham, C.

International Class

G06F 017/00

Abstract

In a traffic view server (TVS) system in which the traffic through a telecommunications network is monitored, a database system is provided to enable high processing rate for the TVS, both for inserting the data into the system and for extracting the stored data out for reporting purposes. The database system is structured in three pieces, a first one handling statistics data from records that are collected by a traffic statistics system (MTS), a second one handling enhanced call detail records (ECDR) screened from the MTS, and a last one handling common material references. The statistics data are first stored in a fast response electronic storage medium, after they have been segregated into different basic types of statistics data. The thus segregated basic types of statistics data are then combined and forwarded for long term storage in a magnetic storage medium at a brief period of time after a predetermined time interval. On the other hand, the CDR and reference data are stored directly, but at a steady rate, to respective CDR and reference storage tables.