METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUAL CONTENT ACCESS SYSTEMS BUILT ON A CONTENT ROUTING NETWORK

摘要

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for information management of a network database having distributed data sources. One embodiment of the invention comprises the steps of decomposing a query into at least one network message for transmission using characteristic routing over a network only to data sources relevant to the query, the query specifying at least one data source; receiving a reply message in response to the network message over the network; and generating a result for the query from the reply message. The query is received in a database language and the generated result is in the database language. The query further specifies a period of time during which the query is valid.