Method of efficiency and flexibility storing, retrieving, and modifying data in any language representation

• US 5,835,912 A
• Filed: 03/13/1997
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: United States Government, as represented by the National Security Agency, US Government As Represented By The Director National Security Agency
• Original Assignee: The United States of America As Represented By The Director National Security Agency
• Inventors: Pet, Mandy Suzanne
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WALLACE, MICHAEL J
• Application Number:
  US08/815,668
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 707/104, 707/3, 707/4, 704/2, 704/10, 704/7
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

The present invention is a method of storing, retrieving, and modifying data in a database by creating data records in a user-definable language representation, where each data record has an identifier, where each data record includes data fields and attribute fields, where each data field and attribute field is identified by a name, and where the name does not have to be used by another user; storing each data field and attribute field on a separate line in a data item table along with the data record identifier, the field name or attribute name, and a language representation identifier; retrieving the data record, data field or attribute field in the language representation used to store the same; and modifying, adding, or deleting the data record, the data field, or the attribute field using a user-definable language representation, where the language representation may be different from the language representation used to store the item.

Claims

1. A method of storing, retrieving, and modifying data in a database, comprising the steps of:

a) creating at least one data record, by at least one user, in a user-definable language and user-definable language representation, where the user-definable language and the user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user, where each of the at least one data record has a unique identifier, where the at least one data record includes at least one data field, where each of the at least one data field is identified by a user-definable field name, and where the field name of the at least one data field for one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user;

b) storing, by the at least one user, each of the at least one data field on a separate line in a data item table along with the unique identifier of the corresponding at least one data record, the at least one field name corresponding to the at least one data field being stored, and the language representation identifier for the language representation of the corresponding at least one data field being stored;

c) retrieving, by the at least one user, the at least one data record using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user; and

d) modifying, by the at least one user, the at least one data record using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of creating at least one data record is further comprised of the step of creating at least one data record, by at least one user, in a user-definable language and user-definable language representation, where the user-definable language and the user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user, where the at least one data field corresponding to the at least one data record includes at least one attribute field, where each of the at least one attribute field is identified by a user-definable attribute name, and where the attribute name of the at least one attribute field for one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said step of storing is further comprised of the step of storing, by the at least one user, each of the at least one attribute field on a separate line in the data item table along with the unique identifier of the corresponding at least one data record, the at least one attribute name corresponding to the at least one attribute field being stored, and the language representation identifier for the language representation of the corresponding at least one attribute field being stored.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of retrieving further comprises retrieving, by the at least one user, the at least one data field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of retrieving further comprises retrieving, by the at least one user, the at least one attribute field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of modifying further comprises deleting, by the at least one user, the at least one data record using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of modifying further comprises adding, by the at least one user, the at least one data record using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of modifying further comprises modifying, by the at least one user, the at least one data field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of modifying further comprises deleting, by the at least one user, the at least one data field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of modifying further comprises adding, by the at least one user, the at least one data field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

11. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of modifying further comprises modifying, by the at least one user, the at least one attribute field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

12. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of modifying further comprises deleting, by the at least one user, the at least one attribute field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

13. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of modifying further comprises adding, by the at least one user, the at least one attribute field using a user-definable language and language representation, where the user-definable language and user-definable language representation used by one of the at least one user does not have to be used by another of the at least one user.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of storing is further comprised of the step of storing, by the at least one user, a reverse of each of the at least one data field.

15. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of storing is further comprised of the step of storing, by the at least one user, a reverse of each of the at least one attribute field.