Patents by Inventor Ralph Thrash

Ralph Thrash 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: 20070239717
    Abstract: A system and method for processing patterns that provides technological implementation details of an enterprise application within the context of a public-sector enterprise reference model framework. A system is disclosed that includes: an architecture product library having patterns that define reusable assets for use in modeling enterprise applications; a framework integration system that defines a subset of patterns from the architecture product library for a predefined enterprise reference model framework; and a system for modeling an enterprise application within the context of the predefined enterprise reference model framework by using patterns selected from the subset of patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicants: International Business Machines Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation
    Inventors: Ralph Thrash, Victor Harrison
  • Publication number: 20050015591
    Abstract: A security system and method for granting multi-level access to data items in a distributed network. An architecture is provided, comprising: an authentication server that provides access to a web portal using a web services based communication framework; a system for securely establishing security credentials for an end user logging into the authentication server system; an access directory that obtains the security credentials for the end user from the authentication server, generates a set of XML credential data based on a predefined XML schema, and returns the XML credential data to the authentication server; and wherein the authentication server passes the XML credential data to the web portal in order to grant access to the end user for data items accessible via the web portal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ralph Thrash, Dennis McGrath, Anthony Paper, Siddharth Purohit