Data exploration system and method

• US 20040073546A1
• Filed: 07/29/2003
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hedron LLC
• Original Assignee: Hedron LLC
• Inventors: Forster, Michael, Spratt, Lindsey
• Application Number:
  US10/629,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20040073546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

Preferred embodiments of the invention provide a system for, and method of, exploring relationships in data stored in a computer readable medium. A query is received having at least one operator chosen from a set of operators that includes relational operators and having at least one input and output associated with the operator and defined as a table having at least one domain having a type associated therewith. The query is transformed into a set program having at least one operation structure, corresponding to the operator and having logic for type-independently performing an operation, corresponding to the operator, and having a data relation structure, cooperating with the operation structure, for handling all data access and storage associated with the operation.

Claims

1. A method for exploring relationships in data stored in a computer readable medium, comprising the steps of:

providing a set of operators that includes relational operators and non-relational operators;

receiving a query having at least one operator chosen from the set of operators;

transforming the query into a set program having at least one operation structure, corresponding to the at least one operator;

type-independently, and without inherent meaning, performing an operation, corresponding to the at least one operator, and

providing a data structure that cooperates with the operation structure and handles data access and storage associated with the operation.