Abstract: A regulatory agency with the responsibility of administering regulations uses a system with joint-usage capabilities, including data about regulated entities that are subject to the laws and rules administered by the agency and software for accessing the data. The joint-usage capabilities are preferably used by all subdivisions or departments of the agency that have similar functions or administer regulations on the same regulated entities. Variations in the ways that the departments administer regulations are handled two ways. First, each regulated entity may have several subject items defined in the joint-usage data with each subject item related to the regulations that a single department administers. Thus, if two departments are responsible for a single regulated entity, each may create one or more subject items in the joint-usage data describing the regulated objects, activities, or other aspects of that regulated entity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 2000
Date of Patent:
July 3, 2001
Assignee:
American Management Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Donald A. Smalley, Todd Fein, Jeffrey Gerber, Gary Singer
Abstract: A system that uses an object to relational database mapping infrastructure to map C++ objects and their relationships to and from a relational database. The mapping is facilitated by mapping files which describe an object and how the object corresponds to a table in the database. Overflow tables are provided in the database when an object is associated with more than a predetermined number of other objects, such as two. A C++ reflection layer allows access to attributes and methods of C++ objects at run-time by name. Mapped data is also memory buffered during the transferring of data to and from the database.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 15, 1999
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2001
Assignee:
American Management Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Stephan Atkins, Andreas Hohmann, James Baldwin, Frank Schmetz
Abstract: A regulatory agency with the responsibility of administering regulations uses a system with joint-usage capabilities, including data about regulated entities that are subject to the laws and rules administered by the agency and software for accessing the data. The joint-usage capabilities are preferably used by all subdivisions or departments of the agency that have similar functions or administer regulations on the same regulated entities. Variations in the ways that the departments administer regulations are handled two ways. First, each regulated entity may have several subject items defined in the joint-usage data with each subject item related to the regulations that a single department administers. Thus, if two departments are responsible for a single regulated entity, each may create one or more subject items in the joint-usage data describing the regulated objects, activities, or other aspects of that regulated entity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 11, 1998
Date of Patent:
May 23, 2000
Assignee:
American Management Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Donald A. Smalley, Todd Fein, Jeffrey Gerber, Gary Singer