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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lakshmi Ramachandran, Bangalore, IN;
Kompella Anasuya Devi, Bangalore, IN;
Vipul Arunkant Modi, Ahmedabad, IN;
Anurag Srivastava, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing and updating distributed directory objects is disclosed. The object oriented directory has a schema which has a first and second class. The schema has a schema engine which contains the method for managing and updating the distributed directory objects utilizing semantic and structural comparisons. The schema engine utilizes and updates the first and second classes of the object oriented directory.