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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. 18, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1991
Ronald B Baker, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Cathy J Cavendish, Dallas, TX (US);
Kevin L Sitze, Las Cruces, NM (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The method and apparatus of the present invention permit accessing a relational database outside of an object-oriented environment without exiting the object-oriented environment. A requestor object located in the object-oriented environment sends a data access message requesting data located in a relational database outside of the object-oriented environment. This message is sent to an interface which creates a data object containing instance variables to hold results from the data access request. The interface executes a data access routine and the results are placed into the data object with the results being sent to the requestor object by sending the requestor object a pointer to the data object.