Patent ID: 7779005
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for managing a database, the database having a hierarchical database and including lower and upper classes, the apparatus comprising: a processor; an extracting unit that extracts detailed information characterizing a class and a property which is included in at least one referenced dictionary and which is referenced to by a referencing dictionary, the detailed information including one of a name or a definition concerning the class or the property, an adding unit that adds the extracted detailed information to the referencing dictionary; a dictionary data organizing scheme-determining unit that accepts an input of the referencing dictionary haying added the detailed information, and makes a determination on the information of an extraction extent of the referenced dictionary included in the accepted referencing dictionary; a dictionary database-structuring unit that structures the referencing dictionary according to one of a result of the determination by the dictionary data organizing scheme determining unit or a previously stored version of the information on the specifying scheme of the extraction extent of the reference dictionary, and an output unit that outputs the structured referencing dictionary.