Apple patent application for cascade feature for creating records
in a database:
" On June 22, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed
Apple’s patent application titled ‘Cascade feature for creating
records in a database,’ originally filed in December 2004. The
present invention relates to databases and, more particularly, to
providing a cascade feature for a database program which can serve
as an... [ read
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(Via Macsimum
News.)
Its one thing to not know, or have any demonstrable interest in,
the enterprise corporate market (the land of database technology
utilization etc..), and a completely different matter when lack of
technology advances in this realm amount to advertising one's
ignorance about database matters so publicly.
I would like to assume that this patent is dead on arrival since
there should be an army of DBMS vendors Triggered by this attempt
to CASCADE DELETE years of existing prior art LOL!!
The attempt to use Model Independence as the patentable
variation of "DBMS Cascade Functionality" prior art doesn't wash.
CASCADE functionality is old news in the real DBMS world! What
next? Patent application for mixing SQL and SPARQL in 2009?
There is a gradual sense that we are now making the Conceptual
View of Data Real, across the board, and obviously there would be a
clear need to apply CASCADE technology in this context. But the
fact that you realize this now (Apple!) simply doesn't make it
novel in any shape or form.