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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2003
Karine Excoffier, Montbonnot Saint Martin, FR;
Robert Byrne, Voiron, FR;
Gilles Bellaton, Saint Martin d'Heres, FR;
Karine Excoffier, Montbonnot Saint Martin, FR;
Robert Byrne, Voiron, FR;
Gilles Bellaton, Saint Martin d'Heres, FR;
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention proposes a directory server, capable of interacting with entries organized in a tree structure. Each entry has attributes, these attributes comprising real attributes each having a value stored in the entry. The directory server comprising: a mechanism capable of associating a virtual attribute to an entry, subject to a virtual attribute condition being verified, the virtual attribute condition being derived from data located elsewhere in the tree structure, and a resolving function, capable of receiving a first filter expression, based on a virtual attribute, for converting it into one or more second filter expressions, containing real attributes, and being computed from the first filter expression and from the virtual attribute condition.