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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2000
Tatsunori Kanai, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiki Kizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiji Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yokokawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yao, Kanagawa, JP;
Osamu Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokuni Yano, Tokyo, JP;
Hisako Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsunori Kanai, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiki Kizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiji Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yokokawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yao, Kanagawa, JP;
Osamu Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokuni Yano, Tokyo, JP;
Hisako Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A scheme for systematically registering meta-data with respect to various types of individual data so as to enable sophisticated retrieval or application program construction assistance utilizing the meta-data in a data server is disclosed. A data-type of registering data to be registered into a data server that registers and manages data and meta-data for data, and one procedure corresponding to the detected data type is selected from a plurality of procedures provided in correspondence to respective data types and stored in advance, each procedure having a program code for gene rating the meta-data for data according to a corresponding data type. Then, the meta-data for the registering data are generated by executing the program code of the selected procedure, and the generated meta-data are registered in relation to the registering data.