公开(公告)号：CA2424009A1

公开(公告)日：2004-09-28

申请号：CA2424009

申请日：2003-03-28

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： WONG JANETTE S J ,  BALAKUMARAN BALASINGHAM ,  HUBBARD MARK W ,  GOODWIN RICHARD T ,  VANDERGOOT JACOB T ,  ZHUANG YI ANDY

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/00

Abstract: A mechanism to enable context-sensitive attributes which comprise an attribute value and a context value defining the applicability of the attribute value in a computer application. The mechanism is adapted to manipulate the context-sensitive attributes, for example to facilitate creation of attribute values with associated context values, retrieve attribute values associated with a specific context value and search based on attribute values within a context value.