Patent ID: 6526406
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A database access method to deliver and store information from and in a database in response to instructions through access from a plurality of users, wherein:making elementary data type definitions to define types of various data to be collected in the database at least by data category and name in accordance with data structure wherein single data constituting the database or their clusters are made elements, data masses each comprising at least one element being prepared; making complex data type definitions as a mass of said elementary data type definitions, making definition of each of various data masses available to users by specifying an appropriate complex data type previously defined and adding its ID code to the data mass; feeding individual data into the database by preserving an area in a storage space of the database for each elementary data type, and storing data in a corresponding area together with the ID code of the data mass; and accessing to individual data in the database by specifying the ID code of data mass and the definition of the complex data type.