IP Library Granted Patent US 6,879,987
Granted Patent B2
US 6,879,987 · App. 09/984,752 · Granted Apr 12, 2005

Method for storing records in database or reading the same therefrom

Assignee: Inventec Corp.
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Patent No.
US 6,879,987
App. No.
09/984,752
Granted
Apr 12, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for storing records in a database or reading the same therefrom includes the steps of editing data of a non-indexed field of a conventional database as a string of comment characters through a conversion table so as to store the same in a remark field of the database; and showing contents of data of the non-indexed field on a screen of the database by referring to the conversion table in reading the string of comment characters contained in the remark field of the database.

Claims (18)

1. A method for storing records in a database or reading the same therefrom, the method comprising:

defining a plurality of fields of each record in each of a plurality of databases of a database system with respect to a plurality of data to be stored, wherein the fields include a plurality of indexed fields and a remark field;

inputting all non-indexed data to a corresponding field of a data table through a data table of an input screen of the database system;

editing input non-indexed data of each corresponding field of the data table as a string of comment characters through a conversion table so as to store the same in a remark field of each record;

translating contents of each data of the remark field by referring to the conversion table by the database system in reading the record; and

displaying the same in one of fields of a data table of an output screen.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the conversion table comprises a name of the non-indexed data to be stored and a corresponding code in each record so that data of the corresponding field inputted to the data table is capable of being edited as the string of comment characters containing the codes and the contents of data by referring to the conversion table.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2 , further comprising the step of, when the database system receives the input non-indexed data through the corresponding field of the input data table, translating a name of the corresponding field of the data table into a corresponding code through the conversion table and adding an identification symbol between the code and the corresponding contents of data of each non-indexed data, and adding a demarcation symbol between adjacent data by referring to a predetermined editing definition, and editing all of the input non-indexed data of the input screen as the string of comment characters.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the database system for sequentially storing input indexed data and non-indexed data in the corresponding record of the database through the data table performs the steps of:

showing the data table on a display, wherein the fields of the data table for the input indexed data are linked to the indexed fields defined by the database while the fields of the data table for inputting the non-indexed data are linked to the conversion table;

directly storing the input indexed data of the data table in the indexed fields of the record in the database and sequentially reading the corresponding field of the data table filled with the input non-indexed data;

first determining whether there is any input data in each corresponding field and, if the first determination is positive, performing a second determination step of determining whether the corresponding field is the last corresponding field; and

if the second determination step is positive, performing the steps of finding the corresponding code from the conversion table based on the name of the field of the read non-indexed data, and editing the non-indexed data as the string of comment characters by referring to the code of the conversion table so as to store the same in the remark field of the database.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the database system for searching a record from the corresponding database through the input indexed data of an output data table performs the steps of:

searching a corresponding database based on the indexed data in the data table for the input indexed data and reading a record which is related to the input indexed data;

reading data stored in each indexed field of the record, displaying the same on the data table of the output screen for showing the corresponding fields of the indexed data, and reading the string of comment characters stored in the remark field of the record;

translating all of the non-indexed data contained in the string of comment characters based on the code and the name of field defined by the conversion table; and

showing the translated non-indexed data on the data table of the output screen for showing the corresponding fields of the non-indexed data.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2015
From: INVENTEC CORPORATION
To: ZHIGU HOLDINGS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 035959/0466 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2001
From: HSIEH, MING-HSIAO
To: INVENTEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 012293/0257 →
Continuity (1)
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