Query-based searching using a virtual table
Granted: November 11, 2014
Patent Number:
8886617
A method of searching all tables in a data model is disclosed, using a non-materializing virtual table interface that acts as a view into the underlying data model. The virtual table is virtually built on the fly at query execution time, and maps to all columns and rows within the data model. A query on the virtual table is translated into a set of data model queries for searching the data model, based on columns selected from the virtual table and other specified search parameters, as…
System and method for data masking
Granted: September 2, 2014
Patent Number:
8826370
A system and computer-implemented method for providing security rules to an existing enterprise database system. The disclosed system and computer-implemented method intercepts database connection requests provided by third-party applications and end-users and determines what, if any, security rules to be applied to the request, including masking, scrambling and unmasking the data, as well as whether the requesting user has a need to know the requested data. Accordingly, personally…
Searchable archive
Granted: August 5, 2014
Patent Number:
8799229
An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for generating a searchable archive, the method including receiving a set of tabular data comprising a plurality of rows, storing data corresponding to a group of rows in the plurality of rows in a compacted file, the compacted file comprising one or more compressed segments. The compressed segments can store data corresponding to a portion of the rows in the group of rows and can store the data corresponding to the…
Data event processing and application integration in a network
Granted: April 22, 2014
Patent Number:
8707336
A system, method and computer program product for providing data event processing and application integration is provided. The present invention provides a novel application integration and event processing server that creates unified and personalized applications on demand out of existing Web services, communications systems, legacy assets, and databases for several types of applications without invasive programming. The present invention also provides a novel XML-based open markup…
System and method for integrating, managing and coordinating customer activities
Granted: November 12, 2013
Patent Number:
8583680
A system, method and computer program product for integrating, managing and coordinating activities of customers in an enterprise, across a plurality of applications, resources and touch-points. Customer data is obtained during interactions between a customer and an application, a resource or a touch-point. This data is stored in the form of virtual composite objects in cache memory, on a cluster of servers. The virtual composite objects contain customer data, policies and behaviors of…
Method and system for navigating a large amount of data
Granted: September 3, 2013
Patent Number:
RE44478
Methods for navigating a large amount of data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the present invention accesses a source of formatted warehoused data. The present invention then displays a grid on a display device. In one embodiment, the grid is an iconic representation of the formatted warehoused data. The grid is comprised of elements, each element corresponding to some portion of the formatted warehoused data. The present invention displays a portion of the formatted warehoused data on…
System and method for flexible security access management in an enterprise
Granted: June 4, 2013
Patent Number:
8458230
Some embodiments provide a method and system for flexibly managing access to enterprise resources. To flexibly manage security, some embodiments secure the enterprise resources and provide a security access manager (SAM) to control access to the secured resources. The SAM controls access to the enterprise and the secure resources through one or more configurable management modules of the SAM. Each management module of the SAM is configurable to facilitate control over different security…
Workspace system and method for monitoring information events
Granted: May 28, 2013
Patent Number:
8453159
A system and method for monitoring information events partitions sets of information and processing steps into one or more workspaces. The workspaces include sharable portable specifications for implementing event monitoring by a plurality of users or computer systems. Workspaces may be bindable computing resources to establish controls between the computing resources and the workspaces.
System and method for efficiently securing enterprise data resources
Granted: April 30, 2013
Patent Number:
8433717
Some embodiments provide a system and method that secures access to data objects of an enterprise that includes multiple data objects and multiple user applications that access data attributes of the data objects. In some embodiments, secure access is provided via a secure resource that secures access to data attributes of at least two objects by defining access control permissions for the secure resource and applying the defined access control permissions to the data attributes of the…
Relationship data management
Granted: March 5, 2013
Patent Number:
8392460
Some embodiments provide a system for processing relationship data that expresses relationship between various entities. In some embodiments, the entities are entities associated directly with an enterprise. The entities in some embodiments described below also include entities associated indirectly with the enterprise through other entities. In some embodiments, the system consolidates disparate relationship data sets that relate to the same set of entities. For instance, in some…
Searchable archive
Granted: February 26, 2013
Patent Number:
8386435
A searchable archiving system. A searchable archiving system includes one or more compacted files of archive data loosely coupled to a search process. To create a compacted file, an archiving process tokenizes the archive data, optimizes the tokenized archive data, and extracts archive metadata from the tokenized data. The tokenized data may then be compressed in a variety of ways into compressed segments that may be individually accessed and decompressed by the search agents. Before…
System and method for efficiently securing enterprise data resources
Granted: December 4, 2012
Patent Number:
8327419
Some embodiments provide a system and method that secures access to data objects of an enterprise that includes multiple data objects and multiple user applications that access data attributes of the data objects. In some embodiments, access is provided by secure resources that (1) filter a set of the data objects using a user attribute to identify a subset of data attributes of the data objects and (2) performing a query by identifying the secure resources accessible by the user based…
Methods and systems for accessing data
Granted: September 18, 2012
Patent Number:
8271477
Some embodiments of the invention provide a user interface that allows a user to specify one or more attributes that should be included in a master reference data set, and identify which of these attributes should serve as enterprise specified identifiers that can be used to identify the particular master reference data set in an enterprise data storage. Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that allows the master reference data set to be accessed and updated in the data…
System and method for flexible security access management in an enterprise
Granted: July 17, 2012
Patent Number:
8224873
Some embodiments provide a method and system for flexibly managing access to enterprise resources. To flexibly manage security, some embodiments secure the enterprise resources and provide a security access manager (SAM) to control access to the secured resources. The SAM controls access to the enterprise and the secure resources through one or more configurable management modules of the SAM. Each management module of the SAM is configurable to facilitate control over different security…
System and method for integrating, managing and coordinating customer activities
Granted: June 12, 2012
Patent Number:
8200622
A system, method and computer program product for integrating, managing and coordinating activities of customers in an enterprise, across a plurality of applications, resources and touch-points. Customer data is obtained during interactions between a customer and an application, a resource or a touch-point. This data is stored in the form of virtual composite objects in cache memory, on a cluster of servers. The virtual composite objects contain customer data, policies and behaviors of…
System and method for efficiently securing enterprise data resources
Granted: April 24, 2012
Patent Number:
8166071
Some embodiments provide a system and method that secures access to data objects of an enterprise that includes multiple data objects and multiple user applications that access data attributes of the data objects. In some embodiments, secure access is provided via a secure resource that secures access to data attributes of at least two objects by defining access control permissions for the secure resource and applying the defined access control permissions to the data attributes of the…
Method and apparatus for data integration and management
Granted: April 24, 2012
Patent Number:
8166048
A system for maintaining master reference data for entities is disclosed. The system includes multiple reference data sets at multiple different data storages. A reference data set for a particular entity uniquely identifies the particular entity. The system also includes a first master reference data set at a first data storage that is at least as reliable as a second reference data set at a second data storage. In some embodiments, the first data storage can be updated through…
Relationship data management
Granted: April 3, 2012
Patent Number:
8150803
Some embodiments provide a system for processing relationship data that expresses relationship between various entities. In some embodiments, the entities are entities associated directly with an enterprise. The entities in some embodiments described below also include entities associated indirectly with the enterprise through other entities. In some embodiments, the system consolidates disparate relationship data sets that relate to the same set of entities. For instance, in some…
Relationship data management
Granted: November 22, 2011
Patent Number:
8065266
Some embodiments provide a system for processing relationship data that expresses relationship between various entities. In some embodiments, the entities are entities associated directly with an enterprise. The entities in some embodiments described below also include entities associated indirectly with the enterprise through other entities. However, one of ordinary skill will realize that some embodiments might only track relationships between entities directly associated with an…
Dual reflector mechanical pointing low profile antenna
Granted: August 30, 2011
Patent Number:
8009117
Dual reflector offset mechanical pointing low profile telecommunication antenna, to be used above all on vehicles, even high-speed ones. Its reduced physical dimensions facilitate its use, with respect to the known solutions, as it allows its connecting to the receiving system, such as a satellite, though installed on a train or on an aircraft. The invention lies within the technical field of telecommunications and the applicative field of stationary, movable antennas of reduced…
