Patents by Inventor Nigel David SMITH

Nigel David SMITH 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: 8656508
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for licensed feature enablement management for deploying software to be used in conformance with a software license agreement. The system includes a software application provider server that deploys a software application and a role hierarchy enumerating a list of roles and features of the software application that each role in the list of roles is licensed to use in accordance with a license agreement. The software application provider server further comprises a role examiner server that determines whether the deployed software application is being used in compliance with the software license. The system also includes a customer enterprise application server that receives the deployed application and role hierarchy and enables use of the application to customer employees based on their assigned roles. The customer enterprise application server comprises a role directory server that responds to queries from the role examiner to maintain conformance with the software license.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Nigel King, June S. Farmer, Nigel David Smith, Lee Hian Quek, Mandar Mangesh Borkar
  • Patent number: 8495703
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that comprise a security policy verification system for verifying security policies. The system parses programming language code that implements security policies, and identifies annotations in the programming language code. The system then matches the annotations to the security policies to which the annotations correspond. The system then displays a natural language description of the security policy in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Nigel King, Nigel David Smith, Rajesh Chandra Singh
  • Publication number: 20110023123
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for licensed feature enablement management for deploying software to be used in conformance with a software license agreement. The system includes a software application provider server that deploys a software application and a role hierarchy enumerating a list of roles and features of the software application that each role in the list of roles is licensed to use in accordance with a license agreement. The software application provider server further comprises a role examiner server that determines whether the deployed software application is being used in compliance with the software license. The system also includes a customer enterprise application server that receives the deployed application and role hierarchy and enables use of the application to customer employees based on their assigned roles. The customer enterprise application server comprises a role directory server that responds to queries from the role examiner to maintain conformance with the software license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Nigel KING, June S. FARMER, Nigel David SMITH, Lee Hian QUEK, Mandar Mangesh BORKAR
  • Publication number: 20100325569
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that comprise a security policy verification system for verifying security policies. The system parses programming language code that implements security policies, and identifies annotations in the programming language code. The system then matches the annotations to the security policies to which the annotations correspond. The system then displays a natural language description of the security policy in a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nigel KING, Nigel David SMITH, Rajesh Chandra SINGH