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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2000
Denise L. Draper, Seattle, WA (US);
David B. Christianson, Seattle, WA (US);
Konstantin L. Komissarchik, Brier, WA (US);
Nimble Technology, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Semi-structured queries in an information page employing semi-structured data are pre-processed to identify the data to be selectively retrieved from the semi-structured data, and the storage locations of the data in a collection of structured data comprising the semi-structured data. The pre-processing references a description of how the semi-structured data are stored in the collection of structured data. Equivalent structured queries to retrieve the data from the collection of structured data are generated; and the semi-structured queries are replaced with the equivalent structured queries. In one application, these pre-processed information pages are stored to fulfill requests from remote clients, to enhance response time to requests. In response to a request, the requested information page is dynamically completed, executing the replacement equivalent structured queries instead, without having to determine in real time where the semi-structured data are stored in the structured organization.