Including annotation data with disparate relational data

Details Including annotation data with disparate relational data Including annotation data with disparate relational data

2008-05-13

2008-05-13

Lee, Wilson (Department: 2163)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

Reexamination Certificate

active

07373342

ABSTRACT:
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used for identifying and indicating annotations made for a variety of different type (i.e., heterogeneous) data objects are provided. According to some embodiments, an annotation store may be queried to identify annotations for data objects in a current view of data. For certain identifiable portions of the view (e.g., a row in a relational view), a callable function may be created that returns a set of indicia maps indicating which objects in the portions are annotated. Bits in an indicia map may correspond to different objects (e.g., individual cells in a row or the row itself). Using these indicia maps, an indication of which data objects are annotated may be provided in the view, for example, by displaying annotation icons proximate annotated objects.

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