Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing access to object data stored in an object server in response to a database query. The method comprises the steps of receiving a database query comprising a relational operation with a data surrogate identifying object data stored in an object server, transforming the database query into relational database commands, transmitting the relational database commands to the relational database management system, receiving a response table from the relational database management system, compiling an answer set from the response table comprising an object locator responsive to the database query, and transmitting the answer set to the client.

Abstract: A method and system for flexibly organizing, recording, and displaying medical patient care information is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a patient information management facility enables users to customize a patient information hierarchy, which defines and organizes the information that may be stored about each patient, as well as patient data flowsheets, which define views in which the patient data stored according to the hierarchy may be entered and viewed, in a way that is optimized for the structure and procedures of the particular health care organization. The facility enables users to add, modify, and rearrange global or local patient information parameters that make up the hierarchy. Users may define the parameters to be any of a number of types. The user may also customize flowsheets used for entering and displaying result values of parameters defined in the hierarchy for particular patients.

Abstract: A document search method using a plurality of databases available from one or more servers using one or more search engines. For each database, the number of records is determined and reported, as well as frequency of search query term occurances or hits, together with identification of database records corresponding to the hits. Reports from a plurality of databases are furnished to a user terminal, a client, where client software computes a relevance score for each record based upon the number of records in the database, the number of records having at least one hit and the number of hits for each record. This local computation from uniform data allows all documents to be ranked consistently as if coming from a single database.

Abstract: An initialized (formatted) 1.44 MB floppy disk which is ready for receiving and storing files under the MACINTOSH.TM. operating system and the DOS operating system. Alternatively, the invention may be applied to any computer storage medium which may be written to and read by the MACINTOSH.TM. and DOS operating systems as if it were a disk. The storage medium is not bootable for either operating system. It contains a specially configured DOS BIOS parameter block in the first physical block, a DOS file allocation table in the second physical block, a MACINTOSH.TM. master directory block in the third physical block, and, by containing only zeros, an empty DOS Root Directory and an empty MACINTOSH.TM. Volume Bitmap in the fourth physical block.