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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2001
Rabindranath Dutta, Austin, TX (US);
Steven Michael French, Austin, TX (US);
Janani Janakiraman, Austin, TX (US);
Rabindranath Dutta, Austin, TX (US);
Steven Michael French, Austin, TX (US);
Janani Janakiraman, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for restricting a fan-out type search of a distributed database. A search request is received indicating that a requesting node originating the search request desires to avoid receiving search results including inaccessible nodes. Responsive to receiving the search results from other nodes, the search results are filtered to remove search results from inaccessible nodes to form filtered search results. The filtered search results are passed to the requesting node.