Patents by Inventor Eugen Frank

Eugen Frank 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).

  • Data relations and queries across distributed data sources
    Patent number: 8874551
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media include actions of receiving a query, identifying, based on the query, one or more relevant elements from an overall data model, identifying, using an adapter mapping, one or more adapters based on the one or more relevant elements, the adapter mapping associating each relevant element with a particular adapter, querying, using the one or more adapters, one or more data elements in data sources of a plurality of disparate data sources, each adapter being specific to a data source of the plurality of data sources, receiving, at the one or more adapters, one or more data results, transforming each data result of the one or more data results into a unified data format to provide respective one or more transformed data results, storing the one or more transformed data results in a temporary data store and querying the temporary data store to generate a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Martin Rosjat, Stefan Hesse, Eugen Frank
  • Data Relations and Queries Across Distributed Data Sources
    Publication number: 20130304724
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media include actions of receiving a query, identifying, based on the query, one or more relevant elements from an overall data model, identifying, using an adapter mapping, one or more adapters based on the one or more relevant elements, the adapter mapping associating each relevant element with a particular adapter, querying, using the one or more adapters, one or more data elements in data sources of a plurality of disparate data sources, each adapter being specific to a data source of the plurality of data sources, receiving, at the one or more adapters, one or more data results, transforming each data result of the one or more data results into a unified data format to provide respective one or more transformed data results, storing the one or more transformed data results in a temporary data store and querying the temporary data store to generate a result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Martin Rosjat, Stefan Hesse, Eugen Frank