Inventions on LDAP data storage- A TRIZ based analysis

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an IETF open standard to provide directory services in the network. LDAP stores the directory information in a database. An LDAP server may store data in a Flat file, or in RDBMS or in any other format. The LDAP client applications such as LDAP enabled web browsers like Netscape communicator and Internet Explorer can use LDAP directory interface without having knowledge on the underlying data storage mechanism.

           

This article is a TRIZ based analysis of patents on LDAP data storage. The objective of this article is to find the major concerns in LDAP data storage, define the Ideal Final Result (IFR) of LDAP data storage, find the trends of evolution and predict the future inventions on LDAP data storage.

Keywords: LDAP directory, Directory Protocol, Inventions, Software Inventions, LDAP inventions, Software Patents, LDAP data access, LDAP data storage, LDAP data searching, LDAP database, RDBMS

Mishra, Umakant, Inventions on LDAP Data Storage - A TRIZ Based Analysis (August 2006). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=925921 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.925921

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/54

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262004046_Inventions_on_LDAP_Data_Storage_-A_TRIZ_based_Analysis?ev=prf_pub