System, method and computer program product for searching for, and retrieving, profile attributes based on other target profile attributes and associated profiles

Patent 6470332 Issued on October 22, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date:

May 19, 2019. 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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Inventor

Weschler, Paul

Application

No. 314690 filed on 05/19/1999

US Classes:

707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)707/103Y, Object-oriented database structure processing709/226Network resource allocating

Examiners

Primary: Breene, John
Assistant: Ali, Mohammad M.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 017/30

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for searching for, and retrieving, profile (or directory) attributes based on other attributes of the target profile and that of associated profiles. In a specific implementation, the LDAP RFC 2254 string search syntax may be utilized to allow multiple related search filters to be specified at one time. The first of the sequence of query strings defined is used as a filter to retrieve candidate results and the succeeding filters, or query strings, are used to determine if a specific profile or directory should even be considered.

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