UNIVERSAL STATISTICAL DATA MINING COMPONENT

摘要

The invention provides a system and method for extracting, storing, accessing, and/or analyzing statistical data from a plurality of software applications. In one embodiment, the invention includes a statistical data mining application and a universal application programming interface that extracts data summary objects from the plurality of software applications according to one or more extraction parameters using known policies regarding the application programming interfaces of the plurality of software applications. The policy knowledge is used by the universal application programming interface to translate data extraction requests of the statistical data mining application.