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Patent No.:

US 8812535 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2008
Applicants:

Graham A. Bent, Southampton, GB;

Patrick Dantressangle, Chandlers Ford, GB;

John B. Ibbotson, Salisbury, GB;

Inventors:

Graham A. Bent, Southampton, GB;

Patrick Dantressangle, Chandlers Ford, GB;

John B. Ibbotson, Salisbury, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for propagating a query in a system made up of a number connectable database management system nodes, where each node is associated at least one database, includes: selecting a first node from the number of nodes; generating at least one connection operable to propagate a query from the first node to a first subset of the number of nodes; generating at least one connection operable to propagate a query from a second node in the first subset to a second subset of the plurality of nodes; where at least one node in the second subset is different from nodes in the first subset.


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