Patents by Inventor George Gerald Kiernan

George Gerald Kiernan 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).

  • Method and system for using fine-grained access control (FGAC) to control access to data in a database
    Patent number: 8234299
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Miller Bird, Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, George Gerald Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Allen William Luniewski, Walid Rjaibi
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL (FGAC) TO CONTROL ACCESS TO DATA IN A DATABASE
    Publication number: 20090182747
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Miller Bird, Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, George Gerald Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Allen William Luniewski, Walid Rjaibi