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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1999
Shigetoshi Sameshima, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsumi Kawano, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroshi Wataya, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Distributed information integrating method and apparatus for collecting data requested by a program at a data request side, integrating the collected data and supplying the integrated data to the request-side program irrespective of the existence of a processing device storing the data and a transmission medium. An event linking data tablestores the name of data to be collected in response to an occurring event and a transmission destination of the collected data. Filtering processingrefers to the event linking data tablein response to an event occurring on a self processing device and a message event received through a transmission medium to collect the data stored in the self processing device, and transmits the collected data to a transmission destination. A data integration management tablesets the items of data to be integrated while dividing the items for every data name of the collection data. Data integration processingreceives collection data from another processing device to integrate the collection data according to the setting of the data integration management table, and delivers the integrated data to an application program