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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Naohito Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
When a predetermined number of pieces of data are retrieved, a retrieving process is performed first on a local database in a LAN , and a response counter counts the number of pieces of response data accumulated in a response accumulation device . When it is determined that the predetermined number of pieces of response data cannot be obtained from the local database, a remote database is searched by a retrieval device through a communications device . Therefore, requests to search unnecessary databases can be reduced, and the load on a network and the remote database can also be reduced successfully.