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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1996
Alon Yitzchak Levy, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Joann Janet Ordille, Maplewood, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp, Middletown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of reducing the burden on database administrators when integrating information from a database system with a computer system over a computer network is disclosed. Rather than requiring the database administrator to express the meaning of database attribute names in a new language, the database administrators needs only to specify mappings between different database schemas by creating database example files. The database example files contain a common body of information values stored using the corresponding attribute names of the different database schemas. The database example files then become the basis for generation of a translation map between the computer system and the remote database system. Then, information queries from a user are translated with the translation map to the database schema of the remote database system.