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:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Donald E. Labaj, Northborough, MA (US);
Norman M. Miles, Bedford, MA (US);
Scott E. Joyce, Foxboro, MA (US);
Timothy Cox, Mendon, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A computerized device filters a set of first data objects each including primitive-valued fields and object-valued fields each specifying a respective second data object as an embedded object. A filter object specifies filter criteria as a set of filter expressions. Each first data object and its respective embedded second filter objects are processed according to the filter expressions. The processing includes iterated execution of a filter expression loop, a first iteration producing a first filter test result for each primitive-valued field of the first data object and initiating a second iteration for each object-valued field of the first data object, and the second iteration producing a second filter test result for each primitive-valued field of the respective embedded second filter object. A given first data object is included in a final set of filtered objects only if both the first and second filter test results are success test results.