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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:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel T. Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Josephine Miu-Kung Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Jyh-Herng Chow, San Jose, CA (US);
Jian Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for computer-implemented creation of an index in a database system is defined, wherein a structured document, interactively entered by an operator or already stored in the database system, is parsed into at least one corresponding element, then abstracted using a predefined abstraction procedure to obtain a set of abstracted values, the set of abstracted values being stored in the index for efficient execution of structured queries.