US 2004/0177093 A1Published application

Displayable presentation page and SQL searchable relational data source implementation of a system, method and software for creating or maintaining distributed transparent persistence of complex data objects and their data relationships

AssigneeThought Inc.

InventorWard Mullins

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Abstract

The invention provides systems, methods and software for creating or maintaining distributed transparent persistence of complex data objects and associated data stores. In one aspect, the invention also relates to an application programming object capable of creating or maintaining distributed transparent persistence of data objects or data object graphs without the necessity of inserting any byte codes or modification of the object graph. Virtually any java object or object praph can be transparently persisted. Further, copies of a data graph or of a portion of the data graph can be automatically reconciled and changes persisted without any persistence coding in the object model.

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Dependent claims

A system for creating or maintaining transparent persistence of a member selected from the group consisting of a data object, an object graph model and a portion of an object graph model when a user of the system is creating, maintaining, accessing or navigating complex data objects as a CDOG model, comprising:

a) a set of definitions for the relationships between a data source schema and objects capable of storing data for an object language application, wherein the set of definitions is stored in a repository;
b) a set of definitions for the relationships between objects for an object language application, wherein the set of definitions is part of an object application navigation model;
c) a list of objects, or a set of objects that are to be persisted, wherein the list of objects or set of objects is part of an object application navigation model;
d) an object or set of objects as a programming module that contains the logic capable of persisting an indicated object or set of objects;
e) an input method to provide the programming module of d) with the location of information related to a), b) and c), and
f) at least one data source to in which persisted data may be stored.

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A software module, or set of modules, for creating or maintaining transparent persistence of a member selected from the group consisting of a data object, an object graph model and a portion of an object graph model when a user of the system is creating, maintaining, accessing or navigating complex data objects as a CDOG model, comprising:

i) a software module for creating a set of definitions for the relationships between a data source schema and objects capable of storing data for an object language application, wherein the software module is capable of causing the storage of the set of definitions in a repository;
ii) a software module for creating and accessing a set of definitions for the relationships between objects for an object language application, wherein the software module is capable of causing storage of the set of definitions in a navigation model;
iii) a software module providing an input means for a member selected from an object name, a list of objects, or a set of objects that are to be persisted, wherein the software module is capable of capable of causing the storage of the input as part of a navigation model that can be access by ii);
iv) a software module containing the programming logic to persist an object or set of objects based upon access to (a) a set of definitions for the relationships between a data source schema and objects capable of storing data for an object language application, (b) a set of definitions for the relationships between objects for an object language application, and (c) an object name, a list of objects, or a set of objects that are to be persisted, and
v) a software module having an input method capable of informing iv) of the location of information relating to iv)(a), iv)(b) and iv)(c).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.