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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:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Craig L. Russell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marina V. Vatkina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael E. Watzek, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved object-relational mapping tool used to maintain information in relational database tables that do not utilize primary keys. The improved object-relational mapping tool uses a cursor update operation associated with relational database tables to maintain information contained in a relational database table without primary keys, including performing operations such as, delete or update on the table.