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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2011
Applicants:
Martin Pfeifle, Seewald, DE;
Jan Richter, Idstein, DE;
Alexander Barthel, Bad Camberg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HERE Global B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/289 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method and system for accessing database tables that contain binary large objects (BLOBs) is disclosed. The method includes encapsulating BLOB-based tables with virtual tables, which allows a user to access the content of the BLOBs via SQL. In one example, the virtual table has a generic table structure that consists of columns (e.g., class name, field name, and field value) and information regarding what level of an object hierarchy contains an element. In another example, a user can define the structure of the virtual table by identifying which object attributes to report.