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System and method for intercommunicating between applications and a database manager
Assignee: Cisco Technology Inc
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Filing: 1988-11-29
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Granted: 1992-07-07
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Expires: 2008-11-29
Abstract
Abstract An interfacing system and method for use in computerized systems for intercommunication between application and database systems. A plurality of generic application program interfaces are employed as an interface for use in precompiler development as a runtime interface target to initialize data structures with data required to perform runtime database query language-related functions. The application program is isolated from the database kernel interface facilitating alteration of the database kernel interface without affecting the application program or user-developed precompilers. Parameters used by the interface are employed by applications written to a plurality of host languages. The applications indirectly use these data structures required by the kernel. The interface system supports serialized multiple thread access to the database kernel facilitating performance/functional benefits of multi-threaded applications.
Inventors
- 👤 Daniel J. Coyle, Jr.
- 👤 Dan C. Hargrove
- 👤 John M. McConaughy
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 09:50
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F8/00; G06F16/00; G06F16/20; G06F16/24; G06F16/242; G06F16/2433; G06F16/2438; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99933
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
154 words
A method for intercommunicating between application programs and a database manager comprising the computer implemented steps of: allocating, re-allocating, or de-allocating said dynamic data structures required by said application programs; registering a user-defined data structure comprised of syntactic structure used by said application programs; initializing said dynamic and said user-defined data structures; communicating previously allocated or registered ones of said dynamic data structures and said user-defined data structures, respectively, to said database manager to process a database access statement; validating content of said user-defined data structure; communicating access program identification information to said database manager at runtime and wherein said method further includes the computer implemented steps of pre-compiling a source module corresponding to one of said application programs and; selecting said access program identification information prior to said communicating as a function of information generated from said pre-compiling of said source module. pre-compiling a source module corresponding to one of said application programs.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
154 words
A method for intercommunicating between application programs and a database manager comprising the computer implemented steps of: allocating, re-allocating, or de-allocating said dynamic data structures required by said application programs; registering a user-defined data structure comprised of syntactic structure used by said application programs; initializing said dynamic and said user-defined data structures; communicating previously allocated or registered ones of said dynamic data structures and said user-defined data structures, respectively, to said database manager to process a database access statement; validating content of said user-defined data structure; communicating access program identification information to said database manager at runtime and wherein said method further includes the computer implemented steps of pre-compiling a source module corresponding to one of said application programs and; selecting said access program identification information prior to said communicating as a function of information generated from said pre-compiling of said source module. pre-compiling a source module corresponding to one of said application programs.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
41 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said application programs have multiplied threads, and wherein said method further includes serializing access by said application programs to said database manager from different threads of said multiple threads within said application programs by semaphores.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 1 further including ensuring validity of said user-defined data structures and said dynamic data structures.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
36 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said database manager includes multiple access programs and wherein said method further includes as one of said steps managing module-specific data required by said application programs using said multiple-access programs.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
190 words
A system for intercommunicating between application programs and a database manager comprising: means for allocating, re-allocating, or de-allocating dynamic data structures required by said application programs; means for registering user-defined data structures comprised of syntactic structure used by said application programs; means interconnected to said means for registering and to said means for allocating, re-allocating, or de-allocating, for initializing said user-defined data structures and said dynamic data structures; means interconnected between said database manager and said means for initializing, for communicating previously allocated or registered one of said dynamic data structures and said user-defined data structures, respectively, to said database manager to process a database access statement; means for validating content of said user-defined data structures; and means for communicating access program identification information to said database manager at runtime, wherein said program identification information uniquely identifies database objects required to process said database access statements and wherein said system includes means for pre-compiling a source module corresponding to one of said application programs; and means for selecting said access program identification information prior to said communicating as a function of information generated from said pre-compiling of said source module.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
190 words
A system for intercommunicating between application programs and a database manager comprising: means for allocating, re-allocating, or de-allocating dynamic data structures required by said application programs; means for registering user-defined data structures comprised of syntactic structure used by said application programs; means interconnected to said means for registering and to said means for allocating, re-allocating, or de-allocating, for initializing said user-defined data structures and said dynamic data structures; means interconnected between said database manager and said means for initializing, for communicating previously allocated or registered one of said dynamic data structures and said user-defined data structures, respectively, to said database manager to process a database access statement; means for validating content of said user-defined data structures; and means for communicating access program identification information to said database manager at runtime, wherein said program identification information uniquely identifies database objects required to process said database access statements and wherein said system includes means for pre-compiling a source module corresponding to one of said application programs; and means for selecting said access program identification information prior to said communicating as a function of information generated from said pre-compiling of said source module.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
40 words
The system of claim 5 wherein said application programs have multiple-threads, wherein said system includes means for serializing access by said application programs to said database manager from different threads of said multiple threads within said application programs by semaphores.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
The system of claim 5 further including means for ensuring validity of said user-defined and said dynamic data structures.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
The system of claim 5 wherein said database includes multiple access programs; and wherein said system further includes means for managing module-specific data required by said application programs using said multiple access programs.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
46 words
The system of claim 6 wherein said multiple threads of said application programs each have associated therewith respective thread identifications and wherein said means for serializing access by said application programs to said database manager includes means for establishing semaphores functionally related to said thread identifications.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
88 words
The system of claim 5 wherein said database manager includes multiple access programs, each of said multiple access programs being called by a respective one of said application programs; wherein each of said application programs includes a related source module; and further wherein said system includes means for pre-compiling each said related source module to generate corresponding source module information; and means for selecting one of said access programs to execute for a corresponding one of said application programs as a function of said corresponding source module information.
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