Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2004-04-23
2009-02-24
Wong, Don (Department: 2163)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07496585
ABSTRACT:
Improved discovery techniques are provided. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for making providers of a particular kind of data available to an application program includes the following steps/operations. The technique discovers whether one or more data providers are capable of providing the particular kind of data, wherein a discovered data provider is either a connected data provider or a virtual data provider. When a data provider capable of providing the particular kind of data is discovered and the discovered data provider is a virtual data provider, the technique instantiates the virtual data provider. When a data provider capable of providing the particular kind of data is discovered, the technique makes a data-provider handle for the discovered data provider available to the application program, with a common interface.
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Blount Marion Lee
Castro Paul C.
Cohen Norman Howard
Davis, II John S.
Ebling Maria Rene
Dougherty Anne V.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Nguyen Merilyn P
Ryan & Mason & Lewis, LLP
Wong Don
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