Patents by Inventor Thomas K. Rodriguez

Thomas K. Rodriguez 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).

  • System, method and article of manufacture for fast mapping from a propertied document management system to a relational database
    Patent number: 6647391
    Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for fast mapping from a document management system to a relational database. A database is provided having a plurality of tables relating to a plurality property groups. Each property group in the database has a set of properties associated therewith. In the database, property groups having at least one common property with one another are grouped into a common table while property groups having no common properties are grouped into separate tables in the database. When a document having one or more properties is provided, a determination is made as to which of the property groups in the database apply to the document. The properties of the document are then mapped to those tables in the database which include a property group that has been determined to apply to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ian E. Smith, Paul M. Aoki, W. Keith Edwards, John O. Lamping, Thomas K. Rodriguez, James D. Thornton
  • System, method and article of manufacture for providing an attribute system with primitive support of dynamic and evolvable roles in support of fluid and integrative application development
    Patent number: 6535884
    Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing data items. One or more roles are defined with each role comprising a set of attributes. The roles may then be then associated with zero, one, or more data items. The data item may be assigned a value for each of the attributes of the role(s) that have been associated with the data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Thornton, Paul M. Aoki, Ian E. Smith, W. Keith Edwards, Thomas K. Rodriguez, Karin Petersen