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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
May. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel T Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Douglas M Hembry, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Basuki N Soetarman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert N Summers, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707103 ; 707104 ;
Abstract
A program product is described in which a class library is provided to permit object oriented applications flexibly to access and to manipulate, in accordance with the object model, nontraditional data values of a relational table. Nontraditional datatypes of a relational table include multimedia and large object datatypes. The data is manipulable by virtue of extended data objects that each represent particular cells of a relational table, and that inherit type-specific behaviors from the class library.