Patent ID: 7162483
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a searchable database derived from a collection of information from a mainframe database, a corporate database, or a large data storage system having a plurality of data elements of multiple data types, each data element comprising a plurality of strings of characters or words, the method comprising: storing all data elements of a same data type in a corresponding data file; reading all the data elements in each data file a first time to determine names of the data elements and a data type associated with the data element names; storing each data element name and corresponding data type in a data element database; reading all the stored data elements in each data file a second time to examine the character strings or words of each data element; determining whether any of the examined character strings or words of each data element match a data element name stored in the data element database, regardless of the associated data type of each data element name; providing a hyperlink for each data element having an examined character string or word matching a data element name stored in the data element database; storing each data element and any hyperlink in a directory of the data element database corresponding to a data type of a data element; and indexing data elements in each directory to provide the searchable database.