Patents by Inventor Scott Ian Logan

Scott Ian Logan 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).

  • Method and system for using fine-grained access control (FGAC) to control access to data in a database
    Patent number: 8234299
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Miller Bird, Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, George Gerald Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Allen William Luniewski, Walid Rjaibi
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL (FGAC) TO CONTROL ACCESS TO DATA IN A DATABASE
    Publication number: 20090182747
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Miller Bird, Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, George Gerald Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Allen William Luniewski, Walid Rjaibi
  • Extending relational database systems to automatically enforce privacy policies
    Patent number: 7243097
    Abstract: A method of transforming relational database management systems into their privacy-preserving equivalents is provided. Language constructs allow fine grained access control (FGAC) restrictions to be specified on the access to data in a table at the level of a row, a column or a cell. Fine grained restrictions are a combination of access control and privacy policy restrictions, which ensure compliance with current privacy legislation mandates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rakesh Agrawal, Paul Miller Bird, Tyrone W. A. Grandison, Gerald George Kiernan, Scott Ian Logan, Walid Rjaibi