Indexing heterogeneous resources

US8275888B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• James Peter Branigan · Apex, US
• David P. Charboneau · Durham, US
• Simon K. Johnston · Kirkland, US
• Martin P. Nally · San Jose, US
• Lawrence Scott Rich · Cary, US
• Edison L. Ting · San Jose, US
• Robbert C. Van der Linden · Scotts Valley, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 25, 2012
• Expiry date: Nov 3, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/90
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Resources are typically stored in homogenous data structures by shredding resource data into database tables destroying a native format of the resources. Typical approaches to indexing the resources rely on users indicating properties that should be indexed, using full text searches to create resource index documents, and other such labor and computation intensive processes. Functionality can be implemented to dynamically generate the resource index documents based on resource properties with minimal user input. The resource index documents can be in a common format to facilitate access to resources stored in heterogeneous native resource formats.