METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING CLASSES, ENCAPSULATING DATA WITH ITS BEHAVIORS, FOR TRANSFERRING BETWEEN DATABASES AND CLIENT APPLICATIONS AND FOR ENABLING APPLICATIONS TO ADAPT TO SPECIFIC CONSTRAINTS OF THE DATA

US6912561B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• William J. Baer · San Jose, US
• I-Ming Kao · San Jose, US
• Pedro Jacob, Jr. · San Jose, US
• Janet L. Murray · Los Gatos, US
• Deidra S. Picciano · New Fairfield, US
• Jerry D. Robertson, III · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 28, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/541
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A flexibly adaptable, i.e., configurable and/or extensible, asset management system is disclosed for processing and querying assets, representing data. The system comprises three layers: a Client Application layer, for manipulating and browsing assets, an Asset Manager Server layer, for providing programming interface services specific for assets types, such as storing, querying, and retrieving assets representing data to and from a Data Store, representing the third layer. The Asset Manager Server layer further provides communication services to support the Client Application layer and file transfer between the Client Application layer and the Asset Manager Server layer. The Asset Manager Server includes several configurable and/or extensible modules, including a Client Adapter module, a Schema Adapter module and a Resources module.