Patents by Inventor Carll Bennett Hoffman

Carll Bennett Hoffman 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).

  • Object-relational mapping with dynamic relational schemas
    Patent number: 8280924
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a generic database application of a computer system receives a portion of input data from a database. The generic database application can communicate with the database using a variety of different database schemas. The generic database application of the computer system infers a portion of ORM metadata associated with the received input data. The computer system accesses a generic ORM query where the ORM query is configured to provide mapping information to map the input data into a graph of objects according to the database object properties included in the ORM metadata. The computer system maps the input data into a graph of objects using the database object properties included in the ORM metadata and displays an ORM object view which includes the graph of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brad Mark Olenick, Gregory Lawrence Hughes, Siddharth Jayadevan, Carll Bennett Hoffman, Clemens Kerer
  • OBJECT-RELATIONAL MAPPING WITH DYNAMIC RELATIONAL SCHEMAS
    Publication number: 20100250625
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a generic database application of a computer system receives a portion of input data from a database. The generic database application can communicate with the database using a variety of different database schemas. The generic database application of the computer system infers a portion of ORM metadata associated with the received input data. The computer system accesses a generic ORM query where the ORM query is configured to provide mapping information to map the input data into a graph of objects according to the database object properties included in the ORM metadata. The computer system maps the input data into a graph of objects using the database object properties included in the ORM metadata and displays an ORM object view which includes the graph of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brad Mark Olenick, Gregory Lawrence Hughes, Siddharth Jayadevan, Carll Bennett Hoffman, Clemens Kerer