Patents by Inventor Marcel Hassenforder

Marcel Hassenforder 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).

  • Apparatus and method for constructing and using a semantic abstraction for querying hierarchical data
    Patent number: 7668860
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive hierarchical data. A schema for the hierarchical data is also received. An entity relationship model for the hierarchical data is generated. A semantic abstraction associated with the entity relationship model is defined. An abstract term representing an underlying data element within the hierarchical data represented by the semantic abstraction is also defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexis-Jean Laurent Naibo, Marcel Hassenforder
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING AND USING A SEMANTIC ABSTRACTION FOR QUERYING HIERARCHICAL DATA
    Publication number: 20080243767
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive hierarchical data. A schema for the hierarchical data is also received. An entity relationship model for the hierarchical data is generated. A semantic abstraction associated with the entity relationship model is defined. An abstract term representing an underlying data element within the hierarchical data represented by the semantic abstraction is also defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: BUSINESS OBJECTS, S.A.
    Inventors: Alexis-Jean Laurent NAIBO, Marcel HASSENFORDER
  • Apparatus and method for federated querying of unstructured data
    Publication number: 20070203893
    Abstract: A computer readable medium is configured to receive a query, to map the query to an unstructured data source, to dispatch a request based on the query to the unstructured data source, to aggregate data returned by the unstructured data source in a structured data store, and to issue the query against the structured data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Business Objects, S.A.
    Inventors: Anthony Krinsky, Marcel Hassenforder, Marc Chevrier, Jean-Yves Cras