Patents by Inventor Clinton S. Tepper

Clinton S. Tepper 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).

  • Unique surrogate key generation using cryptographic hashing
    Patent number: 9237011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method or system of generating a surrogate key using cryptographic hashing. One embodiment of the method of the present invention may have steps such as selecting a field or group of fields that is or are unique among all records in the database and for each record, extracting the data from the fields; concatenating the extracted data into an input message; running the input message through a hash generator, either in batches or one at a time, for testing purposes perhaps; and outputting a surrogate key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Clinton S. Tepper
  • UNIQUE SURROGATE KEY GENERATION USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASHING
    Publication number: 20150016605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method or system of generating a surrogate key using cryptographic hashing. One embodiment of the method of the present invention may have steps such as selecting a field or group of fields that is or are unique among all records in the database and for each record, extracting the data from the fields; concatenating the extracted data into an input message; running the input message through a hash generator, either in batches or one at a time, for testing purposes perhaps; and outputting a surrogate key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Clinton S. Tepper
  • Unique surrogate key generation using cryptographic hashing
    Patent number: 8873748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method or system of generating a surrogate key using cryptographic hashing. One embodiment of the method of the present invention may have steps such as selecting a field or group of fields that is or are unique among all records in the database and for each record, extracting the data from the fields; concatenating the extracted data into an input message; running the input message through a hash generator, either in batches or one at a time, for testing purposes perhaps; and outputting a surrogate key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Clinton S. Tepper
  • Surrogate key generation using cryptographic hashing
    Patent number: 8369523
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method or system of generating a surrogate key using cryptographic hashing. One embodiment of the method of the present invention may have steps such as selecting a field or group of fields that is or are unique among all records in the database, for each record, extracting the data from the fields, concatenating the extracted data into an input message, running the input message through a hash generator, either in batches or one at a time, for testing purposes perhaps, and outputting a surrogate key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Clinton S. Tepper
  • SURROGATE KEY GENERATION USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASHING
    Publication number: 20110123021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method or system of generating a surrogate key using cryptographic hashing. One embodiment of the method of the present invention may have steps such as selecting a field or group of fields that is or are unique among all records in the database, for each record, extracting the data from the fields, concatenating the extracted data into an input message, running the input message through a hash generator, either in batches or one at a time, for testing purposes perhaps, and outputting a surrogate key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Clinton S. Tepper