Data element storage method

• US 20060064395A1
• Filed: 09/23/2004
• Published: 03/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Skeffington, Douglas J., Seguin, Christopher Andrew
• Application Number:
  US10/947,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20060064395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4493 Object persistence

Abstract

Storing data from objects into a relational database to permit relative ease of interaction as between an SQL-responsive database and an object-based software program by using an attribute of the object to identify a location in a table in the database.

Claims

1. A method to store data from objects into a database, the method comprising:

providing a plurality of software programming objects;

identifying at least one attribute as corresponds to a first one of the software programming objects;

using the at least one attribute to identify a first location in a table in a database;

using the first location to form a first request for a parameter as corresponds to the first one of the software programming objects;

identifying at least one attribute as corresponds to a second of the software programming objects;

using the at least one attribute as corresponds to the second of the software programming objects to identify a second location in the table in the database; and

,

using the second location to form a second request for a parameter as corresponds to the second of the software programming objects.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and the second software programming objects share an identical class.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and the second software programming objects do not share an identical class.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a plurality of software programming objects comprises providing a plurality of software programming objects that are compatible with a Microsoft®

Intermediate Language (MSIL).

5. The method of claim 1 wherein using the first location to form a first request comprises forming an SQL-compatible request using the first location.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying information as corresponds to one of the software programming objects;

determining a specific location in the table of the database; and

,

storing the information as corresponds to the one of the software programming object at the specific location in the table of the database.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein storing the information comprises forming at least one SQL-compatible string that includes information as corresponds to the specific location.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a database having at least one data table comprises providing a database having at least two data tables, wherein at least one of the data tables comprises a plurality of data elements that correspond to a plurality of software programming objects.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein providing a database having at least two data tables comprises providing a database having at least two data tables, wherein at least two of the data tables each comprise a plurality of data elements that correspond to a plurality of software programming objects.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of software programming objects includes at least some software programming objects that do not share a common class.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the database comprises a relational database.

10. The method of 1 wherein the plurality of software programming objects all share a common class.