REPLACING AN UNAVAILABLE ELEMENT IN A QUERY

Patent №

US 7,296,013

Granted

2007-11-13

Filed 2004

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATON

AI components

2

nlp · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10753514

A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment replace an element in a query with a backup if the element is not available, but the backup is available. An element may also be removed from the query if the element is not required. In various embodiments, the element may be a table or a user-defined function. In this way, the query may still execute even if the element is not available.

AI classification

AI hardware0.98
Natural language0.83
Knowledge representation0.22
Planning0.03
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATON

assignment · 148970972

Assignors

BARSNESS, ERIC L., RUHLOW, RANDY W., SANTOSUOSSO, JOHN M.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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