Patents by Inventor Beate Porst

Beate Porst 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).

  • Real-time aggregation of unstructured data into structured data for SQL processing by a relational database engine
    Patent number: 7146356
    Abstract: Method, system, and program product for searching unstructured data. The unstructured data, as text data or image data, is searched by first searching the unstructured data through an extended search broker. The extended search broker has intermediary components between a search requestor and a search agent for unstructured data searching. The search agent returns the search results to the broker for aggregation. The broker aggregates the search results and returns the search results to a wrapper. The wrapper then takes result attributes from the aggregated search results and makes the attributes available, e.g., as one or more columns in a nickname table. This nickname table is searchable by a relational database using a structured query language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Choi, Todd L. Leyba, Beate Porst, Amit Radheshyam Somani
  • Real-time aggregation of unstructured data into structured data for SQL processing by a relational database engine
    Publication number: 20040186826
    Abstract: Method, system, and program product for searching unstructured data. The unstructured data, as text data or image data, is searched by first searching the unstructured data through an extended search broker. The extended search broker has intermediary components between a search requestor and a search agent for unstructured data searching. The search agent returns the search results to the broker for aggregation. The broker aggregates the search results and returns the search results to a wrapper. The wrapper then takes result attributes from the aggregated search results and makes the attributes available, e.g., as one or more columns in a nickname table. This nickname table is searchable by a relational database using a structured query language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Choi, Todd L. Leyba, Beate Porst, Amit Radheshyam Somani