Patents by Inventor Scott Ding

Scott Ding 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).

  • Location based services bridge to external data sources
    Patent number: 6988103
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide access to a user's profile information to a location based service, location enable user profile information in external databases, portals, etc., and allow the seamless/transparent provision of location services using both internal and external profile information. A compact definition of a schema of an external database (that comprises a user's profile information) is stored. Data source information that describes how to connect and communicate with the external database and a structured query language (SQL) statement is stored, wherein the statement, upon execution, extracts properties from the external database corresponding to the compact definition. A foreign key identifies a record in the external database and positional information for the record in the external database is stored as a geocoding index. The stored information is then used to provide access to the user's profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Nemmara Chithambaram, Scott Ding
  • Location based services bridge to external data sources
    Publication number: 20030120637
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide access to a user's profile information to a location based service, location enable user profile information in external databases, portals, etc., and allow the seamless/transparent provision of location services using both internal and external profile information. A compact definition of a schema of an external database (that comprises a user's profile information) is stored. Data source information that describes how to connect and communicate with the external database and a structured query language (SQL) statement is stored, wherein the statement, upon execution, extracts properties from the external database corresponding to the compact definition. A foreign key identifies a record in the external database and positional information for the record in the external database is stored as a geocoding index. The stored information is then used to provide access to the user's profile information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Nemmara Chithambaram, Scott Ding