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CA 2244116 C · Owner: Whittaker, Steven John · Inventors: Olsen, Paul Andrew; Whittaker, Steven John; Bridgeman, Seamus Aodhain
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A method and apparatus for accessing a database system said database system , comprising a database containing entries each comprising a plurality of fields which contain machine representations of items of information pertaining to the entry, the said representations forming a first vocabulary; output means responsive to machine representations falling within a second vocabulary of such representations to generate signals representing the machine representations; and input means operable to receive signals and to produce machine representations falling within a third vocabulary of such representations. The method of accessing the database system comprises (i) generating, in …
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- Filed January 27, 1997 and granted November 27, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 27, 2017.
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