Patents by Inventor Steven Ebersole

Steven Ebersole 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: 8266392
    Abstract: Techniques for improving cache accesses in an object-relational mapping space are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first cache request received at a first cache API associated with a transaction for updating a data entry of the relational database, the updated data of the data entry is stored in a local cache, where the local cache is one of members of a cache cluster, and an invalidation message is sent to remaining members of the cache cluster to invalidate corresponding cache entries of the remaining members. In response to a second cache request received at a second cache API associated with a transaction for loading data from a data entry of the relational database, the loaded data is stored in the local cache without sending an invalidation message to the remaining members of the cache cluster. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Ebersole
  • Patent number: 7996416
    Abstract: Techniques for object relational mapping in database technologies are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a query statement for accessing a relational database, a syntax tree is generated to represent semantic information of the query statement, where the query statement includes a wildcard parameter and is implemented as an object of a SQL. A data type of the wildcard parameter is predicted based on the semantic information obtained from the syntax tree in view of a structure representing the syntax tree. The predicted data type of the wildcard parameter is used to access the corresponding entry of the relational database. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Ebersole
  • Patent number: 7873611
    Abstract: Techniques for object relational mapping in database technologies are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a query statement for accessing a relational database, a syntax tree is generated to represent semantic information of the query statement, where the query statement has a boolean parameter and is implemented as an SQL object. A data type of the boolean parameter is predicted based on the semantic information obtained from the syntax tree in view of a structure representing the syntax tree. The boolean parameter is configured to be either a numeric value or a string dependent upon metadata used to map the SQL object to the relational database. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Ebersole
  • Publication number: 20090063436
    Abstract: Techniques for object relational mapping in database technologies are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a query statement for accessing a relational database, a syntax tree is generated to represent semantic information of the query statement, where the query statement has a boolean parameter and is implemented as an SQL object. A data type of the boolean parameter is predicted based on the semantic information obtained from the syntax tree in view of a structure representing the syntax tree. The boolean parameter is configured to be either a numeric value or a string dependent upon metadata used to map the SQL object to the relational database. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Steven EBERSOLE
  • Publication number: 20090063781
    Abstract: Techniques for improving cache accesses in an object-relational mapping space are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first cache request received at a first cache API associated with a transaction for updating a data entry of the relational database, the updated data of the data entry is stored in a local cache, where the local cache is one of members of a cache cluster, and an invalidation message is sent to remaining members of the cache cluster to invalidate corresponding cache entries of the remaining members. In response to a second cache request received at a second cache API associated with a transaction for loading data from a data entry of the relational database, the loaded data is stored in the local cache without sending an invalidation message to the remaining members of the cache cluster. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Steven EBERSOLE
  • Publication number: 20090063435
    Abstract: Techniques for object relational mapping in database technologies are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a query statement for accessing a relational database, a syntax tree is generated to represent semantic information of the query statement, where the query statement includes a wildcard parameter and is implemented as an object of a SQL. A data type of the wildcard parameter is predicted based on the semantic information obtained from the syntax tree in view of a structure representing the syntax tree. The predicted data type of the wildcard parameter is used to access the corresponding entry of the relational database. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Steven EBERSOLE