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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:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Latha S. Colby, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard L. Cole, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Edward P. Haslam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nasi Jazayeri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Galt Johnson, Campbell, CA (US);
William J. McKenna, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
David G. Wilhite, Jr., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
The invention features methods and apparatus for processing precomputed views for answering user queries on a database. In accordance with one aspect, a user query on the database is analyzed, and a candidate view based upon the user query is generated.