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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:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2001
Stefan Dessloch, San Jose, CA (US);
Cynthia Maro Saracco, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles Daniel Wolfson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is provided for mapping persistent data objects residing in multiple data sources into a single, reusable software component accessible to an object-oriented programming language application performed by the computer, for multi-database access to data that may be physically distributed and stored in disparate DBMSs, each stored in an electronic storage device coupled to the computer. The method has steps for identifying data objects in multiple data sources, employing a multi-database software facility for connecting to the data sources containing the data objects, and registering the data objects with the multi-database software facility, creating a single virtual data object consolidating multiple attributes from the registered data objects, and establishing a connection to the multi-database software facility for referencing the virtual data object as though it was a single real data object. It also has a step for wrapping this virtual data object as a reusable software component accessible directly from object-oriented programming language applications.