Patents by Inventor Richard Vincent Becraft, Jr.

Richard Vincent Becraft, Jr. 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).

  • Deferred referential integrity checking based on determining whether row at-a-time referential integrity checking would yield the same results as deferred integrity checking
    Patent number: 6098075
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented data manager. A statement is executed in a computer. The statement being performed by the computer to access data from a database stored on a data storage device connected to the computer. A determination is made as to whether to defer referential integrity checking when executing the statement. When it is determined that referential integrity checking is to be deferred, each record is processed that is specified in the statement. Keys for select records are stored as each record is processed. Then, after executing the statement, referential integrity checking is performed on the stored keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Vincent Becraft, Jr., Robert William Engles, deceased, Claire Louise Willey McFeely, San Yu Phoenix, Kalpana Shyam, Julie Ann Watts