Patents by Inventor Floyd McWilliams

Floyd McWilliams 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).

  • Modeling of object-oriented database structures, translation to relational database structures, and dynamic searches thereon
    Patent number: 6374252
    Abstract: A method and system for modeling of object-oriented database structures, translation to relational database structures, and dynamic searches thereon. The user may create, edit and manipulate a user's object database (dynamically translated into a set of relational database structures), to create, edit and manipulate objects for that object database (dynamically translated into data for those relational database structures), and to create, edit and manipulate queries to be applied to that object database (dynamically translated into queries to be applied to those relational database structures). A meta-model of the user's object database, which is itself an object database, and which has itself been translated into a set of relational database structures for manipulation by a relational database engine. The meta-model comprises a set of classes, objects, and relationships between classes which model the classes and relationships between classes of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: i2 Technologies US, Inc.
    Inventors: James Althoff, Seung Lee, Ken Belanger, Nagendra Prasad, Brian McGinnis, Floyd McWilliams, Yong Zhang, Ravi Koushik