Patents by Inventor Simon D. Harris

Simon D. Harris 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).

  • Landing gear fairing
    Patent number: 9346538
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear including wheels and a fairing arranged to be moveable between a first and a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration the fairing is arranged to shield an element of the landing gear from incident airflow and wherein in the second configuration the fairing is arranged to deflect debris or spray propelled from one or more of the wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Messier-Dowty Limited
    Inventors: Yann Simonneaux, Simon D. Harris
  • Processing of destructive schema changes in database management systems
    Patent number: 9251184
    Abstract: Database schema changes are managed in a database management system by identifying and marking one or more database objects for a database schema change, identifying and processing accesses to identified database objects and storing information pertaining to the identified accesses, where the identified accesses are processed with respect to the database schema without the change, evaluating the stored information to determine a frequency with which identified objects are referenced by the identified accesses over a select time period, and implementing the database schema change in response to an indication that the frequency is below a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Simon D. Harris
  • LANDING GEAR FAIRING
    Publication number: 20150083857
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear including wheels and a fairing arranged to be moveable between a first and a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration the fairing is arranged to shield an element of the landing gear from incident airflow and wherein in the second configuration the fairing is arranged to deflect debris or spray propelled from one or more of the wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yann Simonneaux, Simon D. Harris
  • Processing of Destructive Schema Changes in Database Management Systems
    Publication number: 20120179728
    Abstract: Database schema changes are managed in a database management system by identifying and marking one or more database objects for a database schema change, identifying and processing accesses to identified database objects and storing information pertaining to the identified accesses, where the identified accesses are processed with respect to the database schema without the change, evaluating the stored information to determine a frequency with which identified objects are referenced by the identified accesses over a select time period, and implementing the database schema change in response to an indication that the frequency is below a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Simon D. Harris