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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:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gene Y. C. Fuh, San Jose, CA (US);
Nelson Mendonca Mattos, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Thinh-Vinh Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Yun Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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 a computer-implemented integrated architecture for user-defined search. A statement is executed in a database stored on a data storage device connected to a computer, and the database contains data. Under control of the database, a statement is received that requests manipulation of the data. The statement includes a user-defined function. An index of a user-defined index type is used to access the data. The user-defined function is processed with the accessed data.