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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Gary Paul Noble, Nr Broadway, GB;
Peter John Stretton, Chandlers Ford, GB;
Gary Paul Noble, Nr Broadway, GB;
Peter John Stretton, Chandlers Ford, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a data storage system, method and computer program product having an active data store and a data communication mechanism comprising a unified container layer for validating both externally-generated data and data generated within the active data store, wherein the unified container layer transmits and receives data using the data communication mechanism. In a preferred embodiment, the active data store is an entity-relationship-attribute data store which comprises a relational database. The unified container layer may validate data using a syntax checker and a semantics checker, which may comprise a rules engine. Preferably, the data communication mechanism is one of a publish/subscribe system, a synchronous communication system, and an asynchronous communication system.