Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-06-11
1998-07-07
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 4, 707102, 707103, 707104, G06F 1730
Patent
active
057783551
ABSTRACT:
A method of, and system for, interactively accessing information in response to a user command having a predefined operator and specifying one of a plurality of collections of information. The collections of information are stored in an object-oriented database in a hierarchical arrangement of data members. The hierarchical arrangement can include one level of data members and in which one of the data members is composed of a next level of data members. Each data member is stored according to one of a system-specified and a user-specified storage definition. A set of user-specified storage definitions is defined from the plurality of storage definitions. Upon detecting the user command, the specified collection of information is analyzed to determine which data members of the one level are stored according to one of the storage definitions of the set. Each data member not in the set is added to a projection list; each data member in the set is expanded into a next level of data members composing the data member in the set. Expanding can include analyzing each data member of the next level to determine whether it is in the set and if so again expanding up until a specified level of expanding. The projection list is processed to return to the user the information corresponding to the data members in the projection list. The invention may be implemented in a Parser layer of a known layered architecture for database systems.
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Boyer Philip L.
Carey Michael James
Kiernan Gerald G.
Alam Shahid
Black Thomas G.
International Business Machines Corp.
Kappos David J.
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