Applying 40 Principles is one of the most fundamental techniques of TRIZ. Although they are fundamentally sound, there is some difficulty in applying those in software related problems. As they were originally developed for mechanical or technical problems, the meaning of many terms like 'thermal', 'aerodynamic', 'hydrodynamic', 'ultrasonic', 'infrared', 'temperature', 'liquid', 'gas' etc. are embarrassing in a software context.

This article reviews the 40 principles in the context of software industry and rephrases the principles and their applications to make them suitable for software problems. This article can be used as a valuable reference for all software inventors.

This article is written keeping in view of rapidly growing interest in applying TRIZ methodologies and to help inspire invention and innovation among young people. The author tries to share some of the most popular TRIZ methodologies opriginally framed for solving complex propblems.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an IETF open standard to provide directory services in the network. This report on LDAP is based on a study of 60 selected patents on LDAP from US patent database. The objective of this article is to present the distribution of patents from different angles and present the hot issues on LDAP for current and future inventions.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an IETF open standard to provide directory services in the network. LDAP was initially developed at the University of Michigan with an objective to include most of the features of X.500 directory structure, while eliminating the burdens and difficulties of the same.

As LDAP does not provide any specification on the data storage, different venders can implement different mechanism for data storage as found suitable to the specific vender or environment. Although underlying data storage system between different LDAP servers can differ, this disparity does not affect the functionality or interaction of LDAP clients. LDAP protocol does not expose this disparity in data storage to the LDAP clients or users of LDAP interface.

This article is a part of the main study made on LDAP based on 60 patents selected from US patent database. (Ref. “Inventions on LDAP- A study based on US Patents”, by Umakant Mishra, published in http://www.trizsite.com, July 2006.)

This article is an analysis of patents on LDAP data storage. The objective of this article is to analyze the patents on LDAP data storage, find out the hot areas of inventions and the trend in the series of inventions.

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 part of the main study made on LDAP based on 60 patents selected from US patent database. (For more details on the study please refer to the article “Inventions on LDAP- A study based on US Patents”, by Umakant Mishra, published in http://www.trizsite.com, July 2006.)

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.