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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1998
Waqar Sadiq, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Fred Arthur Cummins, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
William Earl Swift, II, Frisco, TX (US);
Electronics Data Systems Corporation, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention is a method for processing a query. The method comprises receiving a query requesting at least one specific attribute of selected ones of a plurality of objects satisfying a query criteria. The query is directed to a database containing state data for the plurality of objects. A data structure is generated in response to the query, the data structure comprising, for each object satisfying the query criteria, each specific attribute requested by the query and the identifier of the object, even if the identifier of the object was not requested as a specific attribute in the query.