Patents by Inventor Allen William Luniewski

Allen William Luniewski 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).

  • Method and system for using fine-grained access control (FGAC) to control access to data in a database
    Patent number: 8234299
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Miller Bird, Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, George Gerald Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Allen William Luniewski, Walid Rjaibi
  • Apparatus, system, and method for database provisioning
    Patent number: 7680771
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning database resource within a grid database system. The apparatus comprises an analysis module and a provision module. The analysis module analyzes a data query stream from an application to a database instance and determines that the data query stream exhibits a predetermined performance attribute. The provision module provisions a database resource in response to a determination that the data query stream exhibits the predetermined performance attribute. The provisioned database resource may be a database instance, a database server, or a cache. The provisioning of the new database resource advantageously is substantially transparent to a client on the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Enzo Cialini, Laura Myers Haas, Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer, Allen William Luniewski, Jayashree Subrahmonia, Noshir Cavas Wadia, Hansjorg Zeller
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL (FGAC) TO CONTROL ACCESS TO DATA IN A DATABASE
    Publication number: 20090182747
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Miller Bird, Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, George Gerald Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Allen William Luniewski, Walid Rjaibi