Patents by Inventor Richard Dean Langston

Richard Dean Langston 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: 8498996
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system allows generating a query and a first fourth generation language at a native system to a non-native database which is capable of processing queries in a second fourth generation language. A query initiated by a client applicant in a first fourth generation language is analyzed to determine if it can be processed by a non-native system capable of processing queries in a second fourth generation language. Non-standard syntax representative of a function and the query that cannot be evaluated by the non-native database system is identified. If the syntax is discovered, the query is transformed through the use of formats or through an algorithm process into an equivalent query expression that can be processed by the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Whitcher, Richard Dean Langston, Howard Plemmons, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8201184
    Abstract: Systems and methods for executing a computer program within a multiple processor grid computing environment. Execution behavior of the computer program is captured while the computer program is sequentially executing. The captured execution behavior is linked with steps contained in the source code version of the computer program. The captured execution behavior that is linked with the supplemented source code version is analyzed in order to determine dependencies between a step of the computer program and one or more other steps of the computer program. A determination is made of which task or tasks within the computer program can be processed through the grid computing environment based upon the determined dependencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Steven Thies, Cheryl Gehring Doninger, Richard Dean Langston
  • Publication number: 20100114932
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system allows generating a query and a first fourth generation language at a native system to a non-native database which is capable of processing queries in a second fourth generation language. A query initiated by a client applicant in a first fourth generation language is analyzed to determine if it can be processed by a non-native system capable of processing queries in a second fourth generation language. Non-standard syntax representative of a function and the query that cannot be evaluated by the non-native database system is identified. If the syntax is discovered, the query is transformed through the use of formats or through an algorithm process into an equivalent query expression that can be processed by the database system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Whitcher, Richard Dean Langston, Howard Plemmons, JR.
  • Publication number: 20090077563
    Abstract: Systems and methods for executing a computer program within a multiple processor grid computing environment. Execution behavior of the computer program is captured while the computer program is sequentially executing. The captured execution behavior is linked with steps contained in the source code version of the computer program. The captured execution behavior that is linked with the supplemented source code version is analyzed in order to determine dependencies between a step of the computer program and one or more other steps of the computer program. A determination is made of which task or tasks within the computer program can be processed through the grid computing environment based upon the determined dependencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Eric Steven Thies, Cheryl Gehring Doninger, Richard Dean Langston