An advanced bookmark database system provides query, re-organization, information sharing, view, and access control capabilities to manage bookmarks. In one embodiment of the bookmark database system of the present invention, HTML document parsing, keyword extraction, and HTML/VRML document generation capabilities are provided, in addition to allowing comprehensive database query and navigation. The bookmark database system extracts document content semantics, intra-document structures, inter-document linkage, and useful metadata for users to allow query and organization based on various attributes, such as keywords, domains, and last visit times. Further, an access control capability allows sharing of bookmark databases among users. Multiple physical or logical bookmark databases can be merged to create new bookmark databases. Multiple bookmark databases can be organized as a hierarchical structure, to allowing grouping by individuals, projects, groups, departments, etc. Automated query dispatch and dynamic links capabilities are provided. Dynamic links cross references multiple bookmark databases according to bookmark content semantics or other criteria. A user interface provides visualizing models for organizing accessible physical or logical bookmark databases.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS
The present application is related to, and claims priority to, provisional patent application, entitled "Advanced Web Bookmark Database System," serial No. 60/102,802, filed Oct. 2, 1998, which is assigned to NEC USA, Inc., also the assignee of the present application.
Embodiments of the present invention allow the results of a query to an operational datastore to be augmented with relevant data that may be stored in a staging area datastore. Upon receiving a query to the operational datastore, it is determined whether data relevant to the query is present in the staging area datastore. If relevant data is present, such data may be transformed, transferred and combined with data in the operational datastore. The query is then run against the combined data and the results displayed to the user.
The present invention generally provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture for programmatically providing a user interface for creating queries. In one embodiment, graphical user interface content which defines a graphical user interface is provided. The graphical user interface comprises (i) a region for displaying conditions of a query; and (ii) a first graphical element for initiating a process of combining two or more conditions of the query together with logic values to form a complex condition. In another embodiment, the graphical user interface further comprises a second graphical element for initiating a process of separating two or more conditions of a complex condition.
The present invention generally is directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for generating a data repository abstraction (DRA) component that may be used to access data independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented. In one embodiment, a DRA generator identifies a set of logical field candidates for possible use in generating the DRA component. The DRA generator may then generate the DRA component with a subset of the logical field candidates determined by a weighting algorithm based on usage information collected from available database schema and associated objects.
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for query building with selectability of summary information. A user interface exposes a plurality of query composition elements for building abstract queries is defined by a data abstraction model. The user interface allows a user to select and apply aggregation operations to result fields of a given abstract query, and further allows a user to define result groups for the given query. The user interface further allows a user to selectively specify whether the given query will be executed as an aggregation query (by applying the aggregation operations), in which case summary information is returned according to the specified result group(s).
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for query evaluation. The query is evaluated upon inputting each incremental query element (or combination of element). Generally, for each incremental query element added, a query performance analysis is performed with respect to one or more runtime metrics such as total execution time and runtime resource consumption. The results of the analysis are provided as feedback to the user constructing the query.
