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To: Mark Finger who wrote (9591)	2/20/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: SemiBull	Respond to of 14631

Mark, Thanks. That's all I wanted to know. It seems that when I was doing a patent search for my client on an unrelated matter the other day, I ran an assignment search for Informix and came up with nothing....which sort of prompted me to ask the question. Good to hear from this patent attorney's perspective. SemiBull

To: Mark Finger who wrote (9591)	2/20/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

as for me semibull: sorry mate, no idea...

To: Mark Finger who wrote (9591)	3/4/1998 8:38:00 PM
From: SemiBull	Respond to of 14631

Looks like I must spelled IFMX wrong in my patent search. This is their first U.S. patent to issue.....SemiBull -------------------------------------------------------------------- United States Patent 5,701,453 Maloney, et. al. Dec. 23, 1997 Logical schema to allow access to a relational database without using knowledge of the database structure Inventors: Maloney; Christopher W. (Overland Park, KS); Jackson; Brian D. (Belton, MO); Mayfield; Kevin B. (Lenexa, KS); Mills; Mark A. (Stillwell, KS); Tracy; Kent A. (Lenexa, KS). Assignee: Informix Software, Inc. (San Carlos, CA). Filed: Jul. 1, 1993 Abstract Logical schemas are used to allow an end user the ability to access and manipulate relational database data without knowledge of the structure of the relational database. A logical schema is first created specifying which tables are available to an end user, and the relationships between columns of those tables. The logical schema defines a structure for the data fields having a master level and a plurality of detail levels. An end user may manipulate the logical schema using a graphical interface to build customized forms, reports, and queries. An end user is not required to be familiar with a database query language, such as SQL, or the structure of the relational database.