Appeal No. 97-1353 Page 4
Application No. 07/843,704
He notes that the hierarchical data can be segregated from
non-hierarchical data into a separate table 41:
Simonetti Figure 2B
Simonetti converts the
hierarchical-data table 41 into a
tree structure 50 (right).
(8:12-15.) The tree 50 nodes
correspond to table 41 columns.
(8:15-16.) This hybrid structure
provides the advantages of a tree
structure for hierarchical data,
but retains the convenience of a
relational database for the non-
Simonetti Figure 2C
hierarchical data. Simonetti
does not disclose how or when the table-to-tree conversion
occurs.
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