Patent ID: 8433720

Claim:
A method of accessing information, the method comprising: creating, on a database server, a database view that corresponds to data from an LDAP directory; assigning a label to the database view; allowing an application to interact with the LDAP directory through the database view as though the LDAP directory were a database table; wherein said database view: is based upon a first Structured Query Language (SQL) query that accesses data from said LDAP directory, and is created using a CREATE VIEW statement; wherein the step of allowing an application to interact with the LDAP directory through the database view as if the LDAP directory were a database table comprises: receiving, from said application, a second SQL query designed to access a database table of a particular name wherein said particular name is identical to the label assigned to the database view, and executing said second query relative to the database view; and wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.