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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Anil Nori, San Jose, CA (US);
John Weisz, Belmont, CA (US);
Vikas Arora, Mountain View, CA (US);
Subramanian Muralidhar, Foster City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707101 ; 707103 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and process for storing information objects in a database are disclosed. An information object, instantiated according to an abstract data type having a plurality of attributes, is pickled into an image that contains all values stored in the object in a linearized representation. In one embodiment, the entire image is stored in a single column of a table of the database. In another embodiment, each portion of the image associated with one of the attributes is stored in a separate column of the database table.