Patents by Inventor Gail Anne Mitchell

Gail Anne Mitchell 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).

  • System and method for automatic loading of an XML document defined by a document-type definition into a relational database including the generation of a relational schema therefor
    Patent number: 7072896
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for generating (28) a schema (22) for a relational database corresponding to a document having a document-type definition (18) and data complying with the document-type definition (18). The document-type definition (19) has content particles representative of the structure of the document data including one or more of the following content particles: elements, attributes of elements, nesting relationships between elements, grouping relationships between elements, schema (22) ordering indicators, existence indicators, occurrence indicators and element ID referencing indicators. The system and method described herein also contemplates loading the data into the relational database in a manner consistent with the relational schema (22). Metadata is extracted from the document-type definition (18) representative of the document-type definition (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Wang-Chien Lee, Gail Anne Mitchell, Xin Zhang
  • System and method for synchronizing and/or updating an existing relational database with supplemental XML data
    Patent number: 7031956
    Abstract: A system and a method for synchronizing and updating a relational database with supplemental data in which the relational database has a set of tables defined by a relational schema. The supplemental data preferably comprises data in a tagged format having a document-type definition representative of the relational schema and is represented in a document object. The system and method preferably ensure record-by-record updating and synchronization of the relational database with the at least one proposed data update by receiving at least one proposed data update from a source external to the relational database; and propagating the received at least one proposed data update into the relational database. In this matter, the compliance with both the relational database relational schema and the tagged data document type definition is ensured without requiring reloading existing data in the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Wang-Chien Lee, Gail Anne Mitchell, Elke Angelika Rundensteiner, Xin Zhang
  • System and method for automatic loading of an XML document defined by a document-type definition into a relational database including the generation of a relational schema therefor
    Publication number: 20020169788
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for generating (28) a schema (22) for a relational database corresponding to a document having a document-type definition (18) and data complying with the document-type definition (18). The document-type definition (18) has content particles representative of the structure of the document data including one or more of the following content particles: elements, attributes of elements, nesting relationships between elements, grouping relationships between elements, schema (22) ordering indicators, existence indicators, occurrence indicators and element ID referencing indicators. The system and method described herein also contemplates loading the data into the relational database in a manner consistent with the relational schema (22). Metadata is extracting from the document-type definition (18) representative of the document-type definition (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Wang-Chien Lee, Gail Anne Mitchell, Xin Zhang