Patents by Inventor Roy Lorenzo Smith

Roy Lorenzo Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Context-sensitive authorization in an RDBMS
    Patent number: 6289344
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented authorization system. A statement is to be executed by a computer to manipulate data in a database stored on a data storage device connected to the computer. Initially, an environment of the database from which the statement was invoked is identified. Additionally, a security option is identified. Then, authorization privileges for the statement are determined based on the identified environment and security option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kimberly Anne Braia, Curt Lee Cotner, Nelson Mendonca Mattos, Randy M. Nakagawa, Roy Lorenzo Smith, Jerome Quan Wong