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Patent Title: Method and system for data filtering within an object-oriented data

Assignee: IBM
Patent Number: US6269407
Issue Date: 07-31-2001
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File Date:03-14-1996


Abstract: A method and system for filtering a list of data elements within an object-oriented environment are disclosed. According to the present invention, a filter object is created that supports a filter method which discriminates data elements within an input list utilizing a filter criterion. A message is then sent to the filter object specifying an input list of data elements to be filtered. In response to receipt of the message, data elements within the specified input list are discriminated utilizing the filter criterion. In one embodiment, one or more filter objects are registered with a finder object such that a list of data elements satisfying a search criterion produced by the finder object are automatically furnished to the filter objects as an input list.

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