Patents by Inventor Ben Berger

Ben Berger 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 mapping enterprise data assets to a semantic information model
    Patent number: 7877421
    Abstract: A method for mapping data schemas into an ontology model, including providing an ontology model including classes and properties of classes, providing a data schema, identifying a primary data construct within the data schema, identifying a secondary data construct within the primary data construct, mapping the primary data construct to a corresponding class of the ontology model, and mapping the secondary data construct to a property of the corresponding class of the ontology model. A system and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Berger, Ziv Hellman, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Boris Melamed, Zvi Schreiber
  • Web client for viewing and interrogating enterprise data semantically
    Publication number: 20040093559
    Abstract: A portal for interactively viewing enterprise metadata, including a memory for storing a data structure in the form of a graph, with nodes representing asset metadata for enterprise data assets and edges representing relationships between asset metadata, a path finder for generating at least one path within the graph satisfying prescribed constraints, and a report generator for generating a report about the graph, based on paths generated by the path finder. A method and computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Ruth Amaru, Ben Berger, Rannen Meir, Boris Melamed, Zvi Schreiber
  • Method and system for mapping enterprise data assets to a semantic information model
    Publication number: 20040093344
    Abstract: A method for mapping data schemas into an ontology model, including providing an ontology model including classes and properties of classes, providing a data schema, identifying a primary data construct within the data schema, identifying a secondary data construct within the primary data construct, mapping the primary data construct to a corresponding class of the ontology model, and mapping the secondary data construct to a property of the corresponding class of the ontology model. A system and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Ben Berger, Ziv Hellman, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Boris Melamed, Zvi Schreiber