Patent ID: 7680759
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A machine-implemented method to validate metadata embodied as instruction, the instructions when executed by a machine perform the method of receiving, on the machine, a request to validate metadata within an application while the application is processing on the machine and wherein the request is received within a version of the application that is executing on the machine, wherein the request is an option of the application itself; acquiring, on the machine, the metadata associated with the request; generating, on the machine, search operations for the application for which the metadata can be associated with; and validating, on the machine, the operations having the metadata before the operations are processed, and wherein the operations are data store search queries in a data store query language, and wherein the metadata is selectively identified based on configuration parameters supplied as a profile and combinations include permutations of the operations that can be generated in response to values assigned to the metadata to define a finite set of specific operation instances, and wherein the metadata identifies a name for a database table and a field of that database table for which the search queries are to be conducted using the values assigned to the database table and the field.