Patents by Inventor Joseph R. Herrmann

Joseph R. Herrmann 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).

  • Patent number: 8180750
    Abstract: A real time health management analytical system and method that enables a plurality of plug-in tools and extension tools to be interfaced with a central database, and for enabling information to be published to the database from each of the client tools, as well as data to be read from the database by each of the client tools. The system makes use of an engineering model views module that provides a syntactic and semantic interface between the client tools and the central database so that health management data communicated to the client tools is presented in accordance with a specific view required by each specific client tool. An integrated support information model (ISIM) module is interposed between the data base and the engineering model views module, and forms a specification (e.g., an ontology) for all health domain information available for use by the client tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Timothy J. Wilmering, Joseph R. Herrmann, Stanley C. Ofsthun, Kenneth D. Bunch, Donald L. Gartner, John G. Wilson, Man-Kit Au
  • Patent number: 7693900
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method includes constructing a neutral ontology model of a query front end characterized by ontology schemata which subsume the plurality of different databases on the network in order to provide a common semantic interface for use in generating queries for data from any of the different databases, importing respective database metadata representing logical and physical structures of each database subscribed for receiving queries for data from the database using the query front end, constructing mappings of the database metadata representing the logical and physical structures of each subscribed database to the ontology schemata of the query front end, and storing the constructed mappings for use by the query front end for queries through the common semantic interface of the neutral ontology model for data from any of the different databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Timothy J. Wilmering, David A. Van Rossum, Jun Yuan, Joseph R. Herrmann, John G. Wilson, James M. White
  • Publication number: 20080228521
    Abstract: A real time health management analytical system and method that enables a plurality of plug-in tools and extension tools to be interfaced with a central database, and for enabling information to be published to the database from each of the client tools, as well as data to be read from the database by each of the client tools. The system makes use of an engineering model views module that provides a syntactic and semantic interface between the client tools and the central database so that health management data communicated to the client tools is presented in accordance with a specific view required by each specific client tool. An integrated support information model (ISIM) module is interposed between the data base and the engineering model views module, and forms a specification (e.g., an ontology) for all health domain information available for use by the client tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy J. Wilmering, Joseph R. Herrmann, Stanley C. Ofsthun, Kenneth D. Bunch, Donald L. Gartner, John G. Wilson, Man-Kit Au
  • Publication number: 20080077598
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method includes constructing a neutral ontology model of a query front end characterized by ontology schemata which subsume the plurality of different databases on the network in order to provide a common semantic interface for use in generating queries for data from any of the different databases, importing respective database metadata representing logical and physical structures of each database subscribed for receiving queries for data from the database using the query front end, constructing mappings of the database metadata representing the logical and physical structures of each subscribed database to the ontology schemata of the query front end, and storing the constructed mappings for use by the query front end for queries through the common semantic interface of the neutral ontology model for data from any of the different databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy J. Wilmering, David A. Van Rossum, Jun Yuan, Joseph R. Herrmann, John G. Wilson, James M. White