Patents by Inventor Dragan Tomic
Dragan Tomic 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).
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Patent number: 8352512Abstract: The present invention provides “XML Schema Collections” and methods and systems for using the same. XML data is typically stored as an XML instance, each of which should conform to a “schema” according to a desired goal. An XML schema provides identification and organization for the data supplied by an XML instance. XML Schema Collections are collections of one or more XML schema namespaces. An storage location designated for storage of XML data, such as an XML column in a relational database, can be “typed” with an XML Schema Collection object, allowing that storage location to store XML instances that conform to more than one XML schema. XML Schema Collections provide increased data storage versatility, and facilitation of data searches.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Joseph Xavier, Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, Michael Rys, Oliver Nicholas Seeliger
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Publication number: 20110289118Abstract: Architecture that maps document data (e.g., XML-extended markup language) into columns of one table, thereby avoiding schema normalization problems through special data storage. Moreover, an algorithm is described that can translate a query (e.g., in XPath (XML path language), a query language for navigating through document elements and attributes of an XML document) into a relational algebra query of the document column representation. Based on the characteristics of the new mapping, query rewriting rules are provided that optimize the relational algebra query by minimizing the number of joins. The mapping of XML documents to the table is based on a summary structure and a hierarchical labeling scheme (e.g., ordpath) to enable a high-fidelity representation. Annotations are employed on the summary structure nodes to assist in mapping XML elements and attributes to the table.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Liang Chen, Nikita Shamgunov, Philip A. Bernstein, Michael Rys, James F. Terwilliger, Peter Alan Carlin, Dragan Tomic
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Patent number: 7882146Abstract: The present invention provides “XML Schema Collections” and methods and systems for using the same. XML data is typically stored as an XML instance, each of which should conform to a “schema” according to a desired goal. An XML schema provides identification and organization for the data supplied by an XML instance. XML Schema Collections are collections of one or more XML schema namespaces. A storage location designated for storage of XML data, such as an XML column in a relational database, can be “typed” with an XML Schema Collection object, allowing that storage location to store XML instances that conform to more than one XML schema. XML Schema Collections provide increased data storage versatility, and facilitation of data searches.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Joseph Xavier, Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, Michael Rys, Oliver Nicholas Seeliger
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Publication number: 20100332557Abstract: The present invention provides “XML Schema Collections” and methods and systems for using the same. XML data is typically stored as an XML instance, each of which should conform to a “schema” according to a desired goal. An XML schema provides identification and organization for the data supplied by an XML instance. XML Schema Collections are collections of one or more XML schema namespaces. An storage location designated for storage of XML data, such as an XML column in a relational database, can be “typed” with an XML Schema Collection object, allowing that storage location to store XML instances that conform to more than one XML schema. XML Schema Collections provide increased data storage versatility, and facilitation of data searches.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Joseph Xavier, Shankan Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, Michael Rys, Oliver Nicholas Seeliger
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Patent number: 7774321Abstract: Modifying a portion of an XML document stored in a relational database includes converting operations on the document into an operator tree. The operator tree includes a first operator corresponding to a first portion of the schema for the modified data and a second operator corresponding to a parent portion of the schema for the modified data. A first and a second portion of the schema are extracted from the overall document schema. A first validation of the modified data using the first operator with the first portion of the schema is performed. This forms a partially validated XML document portion. Next, a second validation of the partially validated XML document portion with the second portion of the schema is performed using the second operator. The XML document constraints are verified and the modified data is merged into the XML document, thus avoiding a full validation of the XML document when certain XML Schema types are absent in the modified data.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Shankar Pal, Gideon Schaller, Istvan Cseri, Wei Yu
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Patent number: 7475093Abstract: Caching architecture that facilitates translation between schema data and relational structures. A schema translation component consumes schema data (e.g., XML schema data) having a schema structure. The schema structure is shredded into tables. A validation component interfaces to a memory management interface to facilitate loading only the necessary components to perform instance validation. During validation, only parts of the schema that are used are loaded and cached. A schema cache stores the in-memory representation of the schema optimized for instance validation. The schema components are loaded from metadata into the cache memory as read-only objects such that multiple users can use the in-memory objects for validation.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Shankar Pal, Stanislav A. Oks, Jonathan D. Morrison, Mark C. Benvenuto
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Patent number: 7437371Abstract: Several embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for extending the UDT framework of an extended relational data store (ERDS) to include support for unordered collections (multisets) and ordered collection (lists). More specifically, several embodiments of the present invention use an UDT infrastructure, CLR generics, and a new UNNEST operator to create and utilize a special type abstraction for collections that is simultaneously a scalar and a relation. As a scalar, this collection type can be processed by all parts of the data store engine that understand scalars (including but not limited to the client stack) and, as a relation, this collection type is queriable like any other type of relation.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Balaji Rathakrishnan, Beysim Sezgin, Denis Y. Altudov, Jose A. Blakeley, Oliver Nicholas Seeliger, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Wei Yu, Dragan Tomic, Denis Churin, Bruno H. M. Denuit, Conor J. Cunningham, Stefano Stefani
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Publication number: 20070112851Abstract: Modifying a portion of an XML document stored in a relational database includes converting operations on the document into an operator tree. The operator tree includes a first operator corresponding to a first portion of the schema for the modified data and a second operator corresponding to a parent portion of the schema for the modified data. A first and a second portion of the schema are extracted from the overall document schema. A first validation of the modified data using the first operator with the first portion of the schema is performed. This forms a partially validated XML document portion. Next, a second validation of the partially validated XML document portion with the second portion of the schema is performed using the second operator. The XML document constraints are verified and the modified data is merged into the XML document, thus avoiding a full validation of the XML document when certain XML Schema types are absent in the modified data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2005Publication date: May 17, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Shankar Pal, Gideon Schaller, Istvan Cseri, Wei Yu
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Publication number: 20060085451Abstract: Translation architecture that facilitates translation between schema data and relational structures. The architecture includes a translation component that consumes schema data (e.g., an XML schema) that includes a schema structure, validates the schema structure, and persists in memory a representation of the schema as a relational format. Since schemas are shredded into tables, instance validation loads only the necessary components to perform validation. During validation, only parts of the schema that are used are loaded and cached. A schema cache stores the in-memory representation of schema optimized for instance validation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Shankar Pal, Dragan Tomic, Clifford Dibble, Yuriy Inglikov, Samuel Smith
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Publication number: 20060085489Abstract: Caching architecture that facilitates translation between schema data and relational structures. A schema translation component consumes schema data (e.g., XML schema data) having a schema structure. The schema structure is shredded into tables. A validation component interfaces to a memory management interface to facilitate loading only the necessary components to perform instance validation. During validation, only parts of the schema that are used are loaded and cached. A schema cache stores the in-memory representation of the schema optimized for instance validation. The schema components are loaded from metadata into the cache memory as read-only objects such that multiple users can use the in-memory objects for validation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragan Tomic, Shankar Pal, Stanislav Oks, Jonathan Morrison, Mark Benvenuto
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Publication number: 20050177551Abstract: Several embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for extending the UDT framework of an extended relational data store (ERDS) to include support for unordered collections (multisets) and ordered collection (lists). More specifically, several embodiments of the present invention use an UDT infrastructure, CLR generics, and a new UNNEST operator to create and utilize a special type abstraction for collections that is simultaneously a scalar and a relation. As a scalar, this collection type can be processed by all parts of the data store engine that understand scalars (including but not limited to the client stack) and, as a relation, this collection type is queriable like any other type of relation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2004Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Balaji Rathakrishnan, Beysim Sezgin, Denis Altudov, Jose Blakeley, Oliver Seeliger, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Wei Yu, Dragan Tomic, Denis Churin, Bruno Denuit, Conor Cunningham, Stefano Stefani
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Publication number: 20050120029Abstract: The present invention provides “XML Schema Collections” and methods and systems for using the same. XML data is typically stored as an XML instance, each of which should conform to a “schema” according to a desired goal. An XML schema provides identification and organization for the data supplied by an XML instance. XML Schema Collections are collections of one or more XML schema namespaces. An storage location designated for storage of XML data, such as an XML column in a relational database, can be “typed” with an XML Schema Collection object, allowing that storage location to store XML instances that conform to more than one XML schema. XML Schema Collections provide increased data storage versatility, and facilitation of data searches.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2003Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventors: Dragan Tomic, Joseph Xavier, Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, Michael Rys, Oliver Seeliger