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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2007
Applicants:
Samuel Jonathan Smith, Southampton, GB;
John Colgrave, Hants, GB;
Manfred Oevers, Tuebingen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A service registry and repository method, system, computer program product and web service for managing an object database for objects where each node for locating objects for selection utilizes predicates for the object; inferring subclasses of an identified class if a predicate is a class classification function; consolidating object predicates including subclasses if a predicate is a class classification function; and appending specific clauses to the object query, then querying the object database using the object query.