Patents by Inventor Catherine Suzanne McArthur

Catherine Suzanne McArthur 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).

  • Online incremental deferred integrity processing and maintenance of rolled in and rolled out data
    Patent number: 8170999
    Abstract: A system and a method for the deferral and incremental performance of integrity processing for data rolled into a table of a data warehouse and for the deferral and incremental performance of maintenance on data rolled out of a table of the data warehouse while permitting general users online access to other data contained in the table. The rolled in and rolled out data are contained within specific data partitions of the table. Each data partition in the table has an associated distinguishable partition ID. Each data partition can also have associated attributes corresponding to containing rolled-in and rolled-out data respectively. Table operation mechanisms are arranged such that general users of the table do not access rolled in data in a partition for which integrity processing has not yet been performed and do not access rolled out data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Leo Beck, Paul Michael Brett, Jeffrey James Goss, Dieu Quang La, Catherine Suzanne McArthur, William T. O'Connell
  • Online incremental deferred integrity processing and maintenance of rolled in and rolled out data
    Patent number: 7359923
    Abstract: A system and a method for the deferral and incremental performance of integrity processing for data rolled into a table of a data warehouse and for the deferral and incremental performance of maintenance on data rolled out of a table of the data warehouse while permitting general users online access to other data contained in the table. The rolled in and rolled out data are contained within specific data partitions of the table. Each data partition in the table has an associated distinguishable partition ID. Each data partition can also have associated attributes corresponding to containing rolled-in and rolled-out data respectively. Table operation mechanisms are arranged such that general users of the table do not access rolled in data in a partition for which integrity processing has not yet been performed and do not access rolled out data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Leo Beck, Paul Michael Brett, Jeffrey James Goss, Dieu Quang La, Catherine Suzanne McArthur, William T. O'Connell