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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2004
Souripriya Das, Nashua, NH (US);
Eugene Inseok Chong, Concord, MA (US);
George Eadon, Nashua, NH (US);
Jagannathan Srinivasan, Nashua, NH (US);
Souripriya Das, Nashua, NH (US);
Eugene Inseok Chong, Concord, MA (US);
George Eadon, Nashua, NH (US);
Jagannathan Srinivasan, Nashua, NH (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The method for processing data in a relational database wherein ontology data that specifies terms and relationships between pairs of said terms expressed in an OWL document is stored in the database, database queries that include a semantic matching operator are formed which identify the ontology data and further specify a stated relationship between two input terms, and the query is executed to invoke the semantic matching operator to determine if the two input terms are related by the stated relationship by consulting said ontology data.