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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:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
May. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
I-Shin Andy Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Kehsing J. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Frederick Thomas Sharp, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jy-Jine James Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a universal calling interface for executing a stored procedure in a computer. Parameter information is retrieved from a database catalog and the computer performs type checking against the user-entered parameters. If there is not a type mismatch then the computer executes the stored procedure without the user entering information about the parameters such as address and type.