Patent ID: 7386565
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of accessing a plurality of data sources comprising: identifying a plurality of data sources having related data, the data sources each including data objects of normalized data according to an implementation mechanism; enumerating, in each of the identified data sources, a common attribute operable to define at least one association between objects of each of the data sources to objects of other identified data sources, the common attribute further operable as a match column for each of the identified data sources; identifying, for each of the data sources, an access method, the access method independent of the implementation mechanism storing the data objects in the data source; correlating, via the common attribute, the objects of the identified data sources according to the defined associations; and generating a compound object indicative of each of the data objects associated via the defined associations by the common attribute, the compound object representative of the associated objects from each of the data sources.