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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1998
David Uel Shorter, Lewisville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for the determination of a particular one of a plurality of data objects stored in the data processing system utilizing attributes associated with the object. Data is associated with a first plurality of a plurality of attributes associated with each data object. In response to an establishment of each data object, an object attribute record is established which includes the first plurality of the plurality of attributes. Search data is specified for a second plurality of the first plurality of attributes. Each object attribute record is searched for the search data. In response to a location of at least a portion of the specified search data in one of the object attribute records, the data object associated with that object attribute record is determined.