Patents by Inventor Venky Harinariyan

Venky Harinariyan 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 apparatus for structuring the querying and interpretation of semistructured information
    Patent number: 5826258
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining how semistructured information is organized in disparate semistructured resources by providing a wrapper to extract information and to provide structured information (e.g., tuples of an SQL database) to a mapper coupled to a standard relational database engine. In a specific embodiment, a querying agent is provided on top of the mapper. Further according to the invention, structured high-level user queries are processed across the disparate semistructured resources using a plurality of wrappers each dedicated to a particular resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Junglee Corporation
    Inventors: Ashish Gupta, Venky Harinariyan, Dallan Quass, Anand Rajaraman