Structured database system together with structure definition frame storing document body data

Patent 5553216 Issued on September 3, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 24, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 202193 filed on 02/24/1994

US Classes:

715/515, Compound document707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)707/205, File allocation715/539Block control

Examiners

Primary: Kim, Kenneth S.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Staas & Halsey

Foreign Patent References

60-024622 JP. 02/13/1985
2-297178 JP. 12/13/1990
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International Class

G06F 017/30

Foreign Application Priority Data

1993-02-26 JP

Abstract

A structured database system includes a first unit for obtaining a structure definition frame of a document showing a structure of the document, and a second unit for storing body data of the document in a database together with the structure definition frame.