A configuration method for a data management system
CA 2197199 C · Owner: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company · Inventors: Quintela, Maria Paula; Wilby, Mark
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Data elements stored in a distributed data structure are accessible by means of a hierarchical routing network in which routes through the network to individual data elements are flagged. The network comprises communicating links between nodes (1, 2, 3), extending from a "root node" (2) to a plurality of end nodes (3). The end nodes (3) contain the data elements. To find a data element, a search message entering the network at an end node (3) passes through the network towards the root node (2) until it encounters a flagged route to the relevant data element. Thereafter it passes along the route to the end node (3) containing the relevant data element. The invention is relevant to …
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- Filed August 9, 1995 and granted October 3, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 9, 2015.
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