Patent ID: 6012067
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In a network of computers over the internet, a multi-tier client/server system comprising of:A) Clients with browsers capable of triggering queries written in Structured Query Language (SQL) where these clients are connected to object request brokers in a Common Object Request Broker Architecture so as to make persistent communications with other object request brokers existing with relational database servers at multiple locations on the internet;B) Relational database servers with schema and business application logic defined in the form of object packages comprising:a) An user defined type creation for an attribute in a table where the type definition consists of variable definitions along with interface definitions for methods and operators on these variables;b) An user defined type creation for an attribute in a table where the type definition consists of a variable that points to a local or remote object on the internet;c) An user defined type creation for an attribute in a table where uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are used as values to locate any object on the web including relational databases;d) An user defined type creation for an attribute in a table where the type definition consists of a variable that can locate a view definition or any object in a local or remote relational database;e) Method and operator interfaces defined in user defined types implemented in Java classes,C) Executions of application logic in object packages on local or remote web objects performed by Object Request Broker services in Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).