Patents by Inventor Rannen Meir
Rannen Meir 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).
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Patent number: 8412746Abstract: A system for managing and querying a plurality of data sources, including an interface to a plurality of inter-related data sources of diverse types, each of the plurality of data sources having a schema that describes its data structure, a schema generator communicating with the interface, for generating a federated schema that describes the structures of the plurality of data sources and their inter-relationships, and for modifying the federated schema over time as the plurality of data sources undergo changes, and a query generator communicating with the schema generator, for generating a query for the federated schema. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joshua Fox, Rannen Meir, Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 8060531Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 7962503Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 7930293Abstract: An enterprise application system including a run-time transformation server, and a message broker for routing and transforming data in the form of messages between a source application and a target application, including a plug-in for preparing requests to the run-time transformation server and for processing responses from the run-time transformation server. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joshua Fox, Ziv Z. Hellman, Marcel Zvi Schreiber, Tom Y. Yuval, Eliezer Israel, Guy Yitzhaki, Rannen Meir
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Patent number: 7921098Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 7882552Abstract: A secure access method for use with a communication network which communicates information between an information resource controller and a remote unit comprising a smart card, the method including: identifying, at the remote unit, a command to upload data; employing, in response to said command, a hash function at the remote unit to encode contents of at least a portion of a memory at the remote unit and thereby to produce a hashed result; transmitting the hashed result to the information resource controller; comparing, at the information resource controller, the hashed result with a trusted hashed result maintained at the information resource controller thereby to provide a comparison result; if the comparing produces an unfavorable result, performing at least one of: revoking the remote unit by the information resource controller; and cancelling authorizations to the remote unit; and determining that the at least a portion of the memory at the remote unit has integrity based, at least in part, on the compaType: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: NDS LimitedInventors: Shlomo Kipnis, Rannen Meir
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Patent number: 7877421Abstract: A method for mapping data schemas into an ontology model, including providing an ontology model including classes and properties of classes, providing a data schema, identifying a primary data construct within the data schema, identifying a secondary data construct within the primary data construct, mapping the primary data construct to a corresponding class of the ontology model, and mapping the secondary data construct to a property of the corresponding class of the ontology model. A system and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ben Berger, Ziv Hellman, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Boris Melamed, Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 7757273Abstract: A method for remote administration of at least one smart card via a communication network is described. The method includes the steps of associating the at least one smart card with a remote administrator by storing administrator identification information of the remote administrator in the at least one smart card, inserting the at least one smart card in at least one user unit, employing the administrator identification information stored in the at least one smart card to identify the remote administrator associated with the at least one smart card, and establishing communication between the at least one smart card and the remote administrator via the communication network in accordance with the administrator identification information. Related apparatus and methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: NDS LimitedInventors: Shlomo Kipnis, Rannen Meir
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Patent number: 7690029Abstract: A method for remote administration of at least one smart card via a communication network is described. The method includes the steps of associating the at least one smart card with a remote administrator by storing administrator identification information of the remote administrator in the at least one smart card, inserting the at least one smart card in at least one user unit, employing the administrator identification information stored in the at least one smart card to identify the remote administrator associated with the at least one smart card, and establishing communication between the at least one smart card and the remote administrator via the communication network in accordance with the administrator identification information. Related apparatus and methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: NDS LimitedInventors: Shlomo Kipnis, Rannen Meir
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Patent number: 7673282Abstract: An enterprise information unification system including an information modeler for modeling business entities and their properties as an information model, the information model being comprised of business constructs, a data rationalizer for generating mappings from physical data assets to the information model, the physical data assets being comprised of data asset constructs, and a data thesaurus for automating tasks of data management based on the mappings. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ruth M. Amaru, David Cavenor, Joseph Edelstein, Benjamin Halberstadt, Ahuva Hazan-Fuchs, Ziv Hellman, Joshua Fox, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Boris Melamed, Zvi Schreiber, Guy Yitzhaki
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Publication number: 20090077051Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 7475084Abstract: A data query method including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Patent number: 7472137Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Publication number: 20080313232Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Zvi Schreiber
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Publication number: 20070169183Abstract: A method for remote administration of at least one smart card via a communication network is described. The method includes the steps of associating the at least one smart card with a remote administrator by storing administrator identification information of the remote administrator in the at least one smart card, inserting the at least one smart card in at least one user unit, employing the administrator identification information stored in the at least one smart card to identify the remote administrator associated with the at least one smart card, and establishing communication between the at least one smart card and the remote administrator via the communication network in accordance with the administrator identification information. Related apparatus and methods are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Shlomo Kipnis, Rannen Meir
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Patent number: 7146399Abstract: An enterprise application system including a run-time transformation server, and a message broker for routing and transforming data in the form of messages between a source application and a target application, including a plug-in for preparing requests to the run-time transformation server and for processing responses from the run-time transformation server. A method is also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: 2006 Trident CompanyInventors: Joshua Fox, Ziv Z. Hellman, Marcel Zvi Schreiber, Tom Y. Yuval, Eliezer Israel, Guy Yitzhaki, Rannen Meir
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Publication number: 20060167927Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Schreiber
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Publication number: 20060156253Abstract: An instance browser including a repository of class and relation definitions, a server for responding to queries relating to class and relation definitions in the repository, and a graphical user interface including icons for representing instances of classes. A method is also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2006Publication date: July 13, 2006Inventors: Marcel Schreiber, Rannen Meir
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Publication number: 20060107038Abstract: A method for remote administration of at least one smart card via a communication network is described. The method includes the steps of associating the at least one smart card with a remote administrator by storing administrator identification information of the remote administrator in the at least one smart card, inserting the at least one smart card in at least one user unit, employing the administrator identification information stored in the at least one smart card to identify the remote administrator associated with the at least one smart card, and establishing communication between the at least one smart card and the remote administrator via the communication network in accordance with the administrator identification information. Related apparatus and methods are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Inventors: Shlomo Kipnis, Rannen Meir
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Publication number: 20050240606Abstract: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are mapped to corresponding classes, properties or compositions of properties of the ontology model, and an ontology query processor generating a query expressed in the data schema query language corresponding to a specified query expressed in the ontology query language. A method is also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Joseph Edelstein, Hayden Marchant, Rannen Meir, Marcel Schreiber