Patents by Inventor Christoph Barbian

Christoph Barbian 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).

  • Publication number: 20120166405
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a method that includes receiving an object including an identifier to determine whether the object is subject to at least one of a change during a transaction and a transport from a first system to a second system; determining attributes for the received object; determining a rule based on at least the identifier and the determined attributes; and allowing an action comprising at least one of the change to the object and the transport of the object based on a result of a rule check performed using the determined rule. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Christoph Barbian, Michael Wagener
  • Publication number: 20120136899
    Abstract: A system may include one or more tenant-specific databases and a tenant-independent database storing metadata defining data stored in each of the at least one tenant-specific databases. In some aspects, an instruction is received to activate first metadata of a tenant-independent database, at least one adoption task to be performed is determined based on the first metadata, at least one adoption request corresponding to the at least one adoption task is added to a queue, the at least one adoption request is dispatched from the queue to a tenant-specific activator corresponding to a tenant-specific database, and the at least one adoption task corresponding to the at least one adoption request us performed to conform data of the tenant-specific database to the first metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Martin Kaiser, Tobias Graf, Christoph Barbian