XPath containment for index and materialized view matching

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7315852
APP PUB NO 20050097084A1
SERIAL NO

10698622

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A method for using pre-computed information stored in auxiliary structures to speed up processing of expensive queries on hierarchical documents such as XML documents being queried using XPath. The invention defines a taxonomy of such structures such as indexes and materialized views for storing pre-computed XPath results (PXRs), determines what portion of the query can be evaluated by the structures, and computes the compensation for the results generated by the structures. The invention detects all structures applicable to the query and rewrites the query to use such structures, speeding up the performance of the queries. The invention identifies the matching structures by detecting containment mappings between XPath expressions in the query and the structure. The invention also includes a new representation for XPath expressions that is rich enough to express all features of XPath.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Balmin, Audrey L San Diego, CA 1 30
Beyer, Kevin S San Jose, CA 13 409
Cochrane, Roberta Jo Los Gatos, CA 22 1653
Ozcan, Fatma San Jose, CA 30 407
Pirahesh, Mir Hamid San Jose, CA 63 3893

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