Data access

About: Data access is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13141 publications have been published within this topic receiving 172859 citations. The topic is also known as: Data access.

Providing enhanced data retrieval from remote locations

Abstract: Techniques are described for providing client computing nodes with enhanced access to data from remote locations, such as by providing and using local capabilities specific to the remote locations. In at least some situations, the access of a client computing node to data from a remote location may be enhanced by automatically performing activities local to the client computing node that improve the efficiency of communications sent between the client computing node and the remote location. As one example, access to data from a remote service may be enhanced by locally performing activities specific to the remote service, such as by using information about the remote service's internal mechanisms to cause the desired data to be provided from internal storage devices of the remote service without passing through front-end or other intermediate devices of the remote service while traveling to the client computing node.

Method and apparatus for accessing a relational database without exiting an object-oriented environment

Abstract: The method and apparatus of the present invention permit accessing a relational database outside of an object-oriented environment without exiting the object-oriented environment. A requestor object located in the object-oriented environment sends a data access message requesting data located in a relational database outside of the object-oriented environment. This message is sent to an interface which creates a data object containing instance variables to hold results from the data access request. The interface executes a data access routine and the results are placed into the data object with the results being sent to the requestor object by sending the requestor object a pointer to the data object.

Collection agency data access method

Abstract: An account data access method allowing access to an agency account database, such as that of a collection or other debt recovery agency, from public sites over a network by agency affiliates and clients of the agency. The invention provides for secure access to a client's accounts using a web browser over the internet. The invention also provides for different levels of access to the accounts among different representatives of the client.

Multi-media remote data access terminals and system

Abstract: In a public internet access terminal, the combination comprising an access station, and computer apparatus at the station and including a user keyboard and data display means, and a user credit card reader at the station, and the computer apparatus including circuit means operatively connected to the card reader to be responsive to reading of user credit card data to enable user access to the internet via the computer apparatus at the access station.

Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States

Abstract: We argue that the development and expansion of direct, secure access to administrative micro-data should be a top priority for the NSF. Administrative data offer much larger sample sizes and have far fewer problems with attrition, non-response, and measurement error than traditional survey data sources. Administrative data are therefore critical for cutting-edge empirical research, and particularly for credible public policy evaluation. Although a number of agencies have successful programs to provide access to administrative data - most notably the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - the United States generally lags far behind other countries in making data available to researchers. We discuss the value of administrative data using examples from recent research in the United States and abroad. We then outline a plan to develop incentives for agencies to broaden data access for scientific research based on competition, transparency, and rewards for producing socially valuable scientific output.