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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1996
Vinoj Narayan Kumar, Austin, TX (US);
Isabelle Marie Rouvellou, New York, NY (US);
Donald Francis Ferguson, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An information-handling system operable within a distributed object computing environment (DOCE) is disclosed that includes an object-based program for controlling object searching in a constraint-based filtering mode over said DOCE. The object-based program for controlling object searching further comprises means for providing hierarchical storage of a name/binding value during a search. Additionally, the object-based program includes a means for providing the addition of properties as name/value pair sequence to each node within a tree search performed by the object-based program. Further, the search mechanism includes means for providing recursive searching of the group properties as well as means for providing meta-knowledge of the class within the DOCE for attribute search. Moreover, the system includes means for invoking a base-filterable class, which introduces methods that verify whether an object satisfies a given filter, and where the base-filterable class further provides a filterable subclass that provides the methods needed to build a filter.