Patents by Inventor Cody M. Collier

Cody M. Collier 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).

  • Converting arbitrary strings into numeric representations to facilitate complex comparisons
    Patent number: 7574446
    Abstract: A method for converting arbitrary strings consisting of any combination of numbers, digits, or punctuation into numerical representations for comparisons at run time or any other time using a data store such as a relational database or full text search engine. The method is designed to build a numeric representation having small, fixed length values that are stored in numeric data types supported by the data store. All arbitrary string data is converted to a numeric representation using the method and placed in the data store. Queries of the data can be converted to a similar numeric representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Cody M. Collier, Bruce E. Kiefer
  • Converting arbitrary strings into numeric representations to facilitate complex comparisons
    Publication number: 20080140604
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for converting arbitrary strings consisting of any combination of numbers, digits, or punctuation into numerical representations for comparisons at run time or any other time using a data store such as a relational database or full text search engine. The method is designed to build a numeric representation having small, fixed length values that are stored in numeric data types supported by the data store. All arbitrary string data is converted to a numeric representation using the method and placed in the data store. Queries of the data can be converted to a similar numeric representation. This facilitates complex comparisons such as field_1>‘abc’.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Cody M. Collier, Bruce E. Kiefer