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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2005
Bill Bumgarner, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher M. Hanson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ronald Dennis Lue-sang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen E. Miner, Calabash, NC (US);
Benjamin Trumbull, San Jose, CA (US);
Melissa Turner, San Jose, CA (US);
Andreas Wendker, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bill Bumgarner, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher M. Hanson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ronald Dennis Lue-Sang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen E. Miner, Calabash, NC (US);
Benjamin Trumbull, San Jose, CA (US);
Melissa Turner, San Jose, CA (US);
Andreas Wendker, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Managing cross-store relationships to data objects is disclosed. Specifically, cross-store relationships to data objects stored in a potentially dynamically changing set of persistent data stores is provided through a relationship definition that identifies a type of object to which the relationship pertains and specifies a property to be used to determine, which, if any, objects of the identified type are to be included in the relationship; by determining dynamically which, if any, currently available objects of the identified type have the specified property; and making available from among the objects of the identified type available at that time, if any, those objects, if any, that have the specified property.