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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:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NS Solutions Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09F 1/730 ;
Abstract
Since metadata pertaining to real data stored in at least one database (DB) are collected and managed at a single meta DB server, and metadata that match a retrieval request are extracted by search of the meta DB server, even when a plurality of DBs and DB servers for managing DBs are present on a network, all metadata that match the retrieval request can be extracted independently of which DBs metadata pertain to. Hence, all data that match a retrieval request can be obtained from a single server independently of the actual locations of the distributed DBs and DB servers.