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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2004
Jordi A. Albornoz, Arlington, MA (US);
Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);
Christine A. Grev, Rochester, MN (US);
Hoa T. Tran, Rochester, MN (US);
David A. Wall, Rochester, MN (US);
Jordi A. Albornoz, Arlington, MA (US);
Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);
Christine A. Grev, Rochester, MN (US);
Hoa T. Tran, Rochester, MN (US);
David A. Wall, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for proving global annotation services are disclosed. Global annotations are used to annotate a data element independently from the internal representation of a data element employed by a particular software application. Data elements are normalized into a form used by a global annotation system to identify the data element, and corresponding global annotations, independent from the application in which the data element may appear. An annotation cache may be used to store the global annotations that have been created for a particular data source, improving the efficiency of the global annotation system.