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Method and system for typesafe attribute matching

  • US 6,578,044 B1
  • Filed: 03/20/1998
  • Issued: 06/10/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for processing data in a database including a plurality of entries, each entry being defined by an entry class type and including a plurality of typed fields, the product comprising:

  • means for providing a template having a template class type, the template defining a set of attributes;

    means for determining whether the entry class type of one of the plurality of entries and the template class type match;

    means for comparing the attributes of the template with corresponding fields of the one entry to determine whether the template matches the one entry when it is determined that the entry class type of the one entry and the template class type match; and

    means for identifying that the one entry is a matching entry when it is determined that the template matches the one entry.

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