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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1999
Kehsing J. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Mei-ing W. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Taejae Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Basuki N. Soetarman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert Nelson Summers, San Jose, CA (US);
Siucheong Kenny Tse, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan Tsu-i Yaung, San Jose, CA (US);
Mimi Phuong-thao Vo, San Jose, CA (US);
Kehsing J. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Mei-Ing W. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Taejae Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Basuki N. Soetarman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert Nelson Summers, San Jose, CA (US);
Siucheong Kenny Tse, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan Tsu-I Yaung, San Jose, CA (US);
Mimi Phuong-Thao Vo, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An architecture to enable search gateways as part of a federated search supports searching for data in one or more heterogeneous data sources. The one or more heterogeneous data sources are within a computer system. Initially, a request for data is received at a federated data source. From the federated data source, data is retrieved from one or more of one or more terminal data repositories or one or more search gateway data sources.