Method and system for uniformly accessing multiple directory services
Patent 5893107 Issued on April 6, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: 
July 1, 2016. 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.
July 1, 2016. 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.Patent ReferencesAlly mechanism for interconnecting non-distributed computing environment (DCE) and DCE systems to operate in a network system Apparatus and methods for retrieving information by modifying query plan based on description of information sources Shell extensions for an operating system Object-oriented cell directory database for a distributed computing environment Patent #: 5692180 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 674318 filed on 07/01/1996US Classes:707/103R, Object-oriented database structure707/104.1Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)ExaminersPrimary: Black, Thomas G.Assistant: Rones, Charles Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 017/30AbstractThe present invention provides a directory service system for accessing a plurality of directory services in a uniform manner. Each directory service manages information relating to objects or that directory service. The type of information that a directory service manages for an object is defined by the object class of the object. An object class defines the properties (i.e., information) that a directory service manages for objects of that object class. Each property has a properly name and property type. A directory service has a property value for each property defined by the object class of each object. The directory service system comprises a schema browsing component, a name resolving component, a binding component, and an extending component. The schema browsing component controls the retrieving of the property name and property type of each property of each object class of each directory service. A client of the directory service system uses the schema browsing component to retrieve property names and property types of the object classes. The name resolving component controls the receiving of a unique identifier of an object within a directory service and the locating of the object within the directory service. The binding component controls the binding to an in-memory object representing a located object within a directory service. The extending component controls the defining of new object classes and new properties for each directory service. A client of the directory service system uses the extending component to define new object classes and new properties.Other References
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