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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rakesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
John Christopher Shafer, San Jose, 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
A system and method for exporing a web-accessible database includes providing a GUI that a user can manipulate to quickly modify the results of a query to expand or contract the results set, without requiring additional querying. Attribute controls can be manipulated to impose restrictions on the results set, including by designating example records the attributes of which are used to restrict the records displayed to the user. Only records that can be displayed are instantiated, to further increase the speed of the system.