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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
May. 15, 2002
Tetsuo Shibuya, Yamato, JP;
Hisashi Kashima, Yamato, JP;
Tetsuo Shibuya, Yamato, JP;
Hisashi Kashima, Yamato, JP;
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for allowing a database search that prevents an owner of the database or someone intercepting the database search in the network from knowing the contents of the query, without requiring any particular processing on the part of the database. Clientaccesses database serverwhich stores sequence patterns and inquires whether the sequence patterns stored in the database serverexist in a predetermined sequence. Clientcomprises sequence processing sectionfor dividing a search sequence subjected to search to create multiple subsequences; and query issuing sectionfor issuing a query to database serverusing the created multiple subsequences individually as a query sequence.