What is claimed is:
1. In an analytic application, a method for incrementally transforming in real time a dynamically changing operational database, said method comprising the steps of:
a) initializing a session, said session identified as a real time session, said real time session for repeatedly executing a data transport pipeline of said analytic application; and
b) executing said data transport pipeline at the end of each time interval in a plurality of contiguous time intervals occurring during said real time session, wherein said data transport pipeline is persisted after each execution of said data transport pipeline until said real time session is completed.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said step of executing said data transport pipeline comprises the steps of:
reading data from a source database;
transforming said data according to a transformation operation of said analytic application; and
committing transformed data to a target database.
3. The method as recited in claim 2 wherein said transformation operation is a source operation, a target operation, an expression operation, an aggregation operation, a filter operation, a rank operation, an update strategy operation, a sequence operation, a joiner operation, a lookup operation, a stored procedure operation, an external procedure operation, or a normalizer operation.
4. The method as recited in claim 2 wherein data in said source database is received from a messaging system coupled to said data transport pipeline.
5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said step b) comprises the steps of:
determining elapsed time beginning at said step of initializing; and
executing said data transport pipeline when said elapsed time is equal to a length of a time interval, such that said step of executing is performed at the end of each time interval.
6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein a flag is used to indicate the end of each said time interval, wherein said flag is for indicating data received during said time interval are to be processed according to said data transport pipeline.
7. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said real time session is automatically terminated in response to a triggering event.
8. A computer system comprising:
a bus;
a processor coupled to said bus; and
a memory unit coupled to said bus, said processor for executing a method for incrementally transforming in real time a dynamically changing operational database in an analytic application, said method comprising the steps of:
a) initializing a session, said session identified as a real time session, said real time session for repeatedly executing a data transport pipeline of said analytic application; and
b) executing said data transport pipeline at the end of each time interval in a plurality of contiguous time intervals occurring during said real time session, wherein said data transport pipeline is persisted after each execution of said data transport pipeline until said real time session is completed.
9. The computer system of claim 8 wherein said step of executing said data transport pipeline comprises the steps of:
reading data from a source database;
transforming said data according to a transformation operation of said analytic application; and
committing transformed data to a target database.
10. The computer system of claim 9 wherein said transformation operation is a source operation, a target operation, an expression operation, an aggregation operation, a filter operation, a rank operation, an update strategy operation, a sequence operation, a joiner operation, a lookup operation, a stored procedure operation, an external procedure operation, or a normalizer operation.
11. The computer system of claim 9 wherein data in said source database is received from a messaging system coupled to said data transport pipeline.
12. The computer system of claim 8 wherein said step b) of said method comprises the steps of:
determining elapsed time beginning at said step of initializing; and
executing said data transport pipeline when said elapsed time is equal to a length of a time interval, such that said step of executing is performed at the end of each time interval.
13. The computer system of claim 8 wherein a flag is used to indicate the end of each said time interval, wherein said flag is for indicating data received during said time interval are to be processed according to said data transport pipeline.
14. The computer system of claim 8 wherein said real time session is automatically terminated in response to a triggering event.
15. A computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to perform a method for incrementally transforming in real time a dynamically changing operational database in an analytic application, said method comprising the steps of:
a) initializing a session, said session identified as a real time session, said real time session for repeatedly executing a data transport pipeline of said analytic application; and
b) executing said data transport pipeline at the end of each time interval in a plurality of contiguous time intervals occurring during said real time session, wherein said data transport pipeline is persisted after each execution of said data transport pipeline until said real time session is completed.
16. The computer-usable medium of claim 15 wherein said computer-readable program code embodied therein causes a computer system to perform the step of:
reading data from a source database;
transforming said data according to a transformation operation of said analytic application; and
committing transformed data to a target database.
17. The computer-usable medium of claim 16 wherein said transformation operation is a source operation, a target operation, an expression operation, an aggregation operation, a filter operation, a rank operation, an update strategy operation, a sequence operation, a joiner operation, a lookup operation, a stored procedure operation, an external procedure operation, or a normalizer operation.
18. The computer-usable medium of claim 16 wherein data in said source database is received from a messaging system coupled to said data transport pipeline.
19. The computer-usable medium of claim 15 wherein said computer-readable program code embodied therein causes a computer system to perform the steps of:
determining elapsed time beginning at said step of initializing; and
executing said data transport pipeline when said elapsed time is equal to a length of a time interval, such that said step of executing is performed at the end of each time interval.
20. The computer-usable medium of claim 15 wherein a flag is used to indicate the end of each said time interval, wherein said flag is for indicating data received during said time interval are to be processed according to said data transport pipeline.
21. The computer-usable medium of claim 15 wherein said real time session is automatically terminated in response to a triggering event.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An integrated mirror and graphics display system, comprising:
(a) a sheet of substantially transparent material, said sheet having a front and a back, said back having a silvered region and at least one primary non-silvered region;
(b) a translucent material comprising printing thereon including a graphic of interest to a system user, said translucent material disposed against the back of said transparent sheet against said non-silvered region; and
(c) a substantially planar illumination element secured to said translucent material and also in optical communication with said transparent and translucent materials, said planar element sufficient in area to provide optical communication with an entirety of said at least one primary non-silvered region.
2. The system as recited in claim 1, said system including a plurality of non-silvered regions upon the back of said sheet of transparent material.
3. The system as recited in claim 1, in which said illumination element comprises a planar light fixture.
4. The system as recited in claim 3, in which said light fixture includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes.
5. The system as recited in claim 4, in which said light-emitting diodes emit light of any color.
6. The system as recited in claim 5, in which said illumination element defines an area sufficient to provide optical communication with at least one non-silvered regions.
7. The system as recited in claim 1, in which said sheet of translucent material comprises a polymeric material.
8. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
a graphic of customer-specific information deposed within at least one non-silvered region beneath said primary non-silvered region of the system.
9. The system as recited in claim 8, in which said customer-specific information is applied to the front of a sheet of translucent material.
10. The system as recited in claim 8, in which said customer-specific information is applied to the front of the second non-silvered region by the use of a decal.
11. The system as recited in claim 8, in which said second non-silvered region is formed by masking or back-etching to define customer-specific information within said region.
12. The system as recited in claim 8, in which said second non-silvered region includes a translucent paint deposed upon the back of said transparent material.
13. The system as recited in claim 1, in which said silvered region comprises a region having an optically reflective agent deposed thereupon.
14. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
a graphic or customer-specific information deposed upon the front of said sheet of transparent material and beneath said non-silvered area thereof.
15. The system as recited in claim 1, in which said translucent material defines a sheet of material at least equal in area to an area of said non-silvered region.
16. The system as recited in claim 1, in which said translucent material comprises a sheet having an area smaller than that of said non-silvered region.
17. The system as recited in claim 1, in which said translucent material comprises translucent paint.