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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2010
Steven Sholtis, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Terry Leclair, Fremont, CA (US);
Kenneth Jerome Henderson, Folsom, CA (US);
Steven Sholtis, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Terry LeClair, Fremont, CA (US);
Kenneth Jerome Henderson, Folsom, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A federated system and methods and mechanisms of implementing and using such a system is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more mappings are created between a taxonomy view at a node and one or more taxonomies of one or more data sources. The one or more data sources can then be accessed via the taxonomy view. In other embodiments, one or more mappings are created between content from different data sources and content from those data sources are merged using the one or more mappings.