Patents by Inventor Nick Nikols

Nick Nikols 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).

  • Publication number: 20100070461
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamic consumer-defined views of an enterprise's data warehouse are provided. A requester, such as a consumer, defines custom attribute aggregations associated with a plurality of data sources. The custom attribute aggregations define a schema for a resource-defined view of the data warehouse. Data operations are dynamically processed against the data sources in response to the schema to produce the resource-defined view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Shon Vella, Nick Nikols
  • Patent number: 7505972
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamic assignment of entitlements is provided. A trigger is received from an identity store. A membership generator generates a list of members from user objects stored in the identity store. The generated list is compared against a previously generated list for changes. The changes are placed into an attribute modify specification, an entitlement grant specification, and an entitlement revoked specification. Using these specifications, a policy decision module routes the changes to policy enforcement modules. The policy enforcement modules implement the changes to entitlements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Wootton, Dennis Foster, Joe Skehan, Charles Morgan, Jason Elsberry, Ryan L. Cox, William Street, Stephen R Carter, Nick Nikols
  • Publication number: 20070226753
    Abstract: An application integration driver infrastructure for facilitating the use of a distributed directory running in a computer network is provided. The infrastructure can transform specific directory events into a vendor-neutral data identification system and then use vendor-neutral transformation technologies to transform the neutral data identification into a specific application's data format, and vice-versa. The infrastructure receives an event from the distributed directory into a markup language generation system, such as an extensible markup language (“XML”) generator. The XML generator converts the event into XML data and provides the XML data to a transformation processing system, such as an extensible transformation language (“XSLT”) processor. The XSLT processor transforms the XML data to a predetermined format. The format can be dictated by a stylesheet provided to the XSLT processor, the stylesheet being responsive to requirements of a computer application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: NOVELL, INC.
    Inventors: Nick Nikols, Daniel Rapp