The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2003
Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);
Julia E. Rice, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter M. Schwarz, San Jose, CA (US);
William C. Swope, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Hoa T. Tran, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);
Julia E. Rice, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter M. Schwarz, San Jose, CA (US);
William C. Swope, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Hoa T. Tran, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for indexing annotations made for a variety of different type (i.e., heterogeneous) data objects are provided. A set of parameters uniquely identifying an annotated data object may be converted to an index comprising a set of index values, each corresponding to a column in a homogeneous index table. In order to accommodate the indexing of heterogeneous data objects, a mapping may be provided for each different type (or classification) of data object that may be annotated, that defines how the identifying parameters of that type will be mapped to the columns of the homogeneous index table.