Patents by Inventor Andrew Mark Winterbauer

Andrew Mark Winterbauer 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).

  • Maintaining a relational database and its schema in response to a stream of XML messages based on one or more arbitrary and evolving XML schemas
    Patent number: 9361398
    Abstract: A facility for representing in a relational database informational content of the series of tag-language messages is described. The facility reads an arbitrary number of the tags contained by the series of messages. For each read tag, the facility determines a path for the tag, the name of a relational table assigned to the path, values specified for the tag and/or attributes of the tag, in the name of columns of relational tables assigned to the tag and/or tag attribute values. After doing this processing, the facility updates the relational database so that and it includes all of the assigned relational tables and a relational table columns, and populates the value specified for the tags and/or attributes of tags to the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Connell, Andrew Mark Winterbauer, Kari Danielle Wittgens, Jason Alex Haley
  • Maintaining a relational database and its schema in response to a stream of XML messages based on one or more arbitrary and evolving XML schemas
    Patent number: 8676863
    Abstract: A facility for representing in a relational database informational content of the series of tag-language messages is described. The facility reads an arbitrary number of the tags contained by the series of messages. For each read tag, the facility determines a path for the tag, the name of a relational table assigned to the path, values specified for the tag and/or attributes of the tag, in the name of columns of relational tables assigned to the tag and/or tag attribute values. After doing this processing, the facility updates the relational database so that and it includes all of the assigned relational tables and a relational table columns, and populates the value specified for the tags and/or attributes of tags to the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Connell, Andrew Mark Winterbauer, Kari Danielle Wittgens, Jason Alex Haley