William G Rich

US Patent:

20080086683, Apr 10, 2008

Filed:

Oct 3, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/906618

Inventors:

William Rich - Harrisburg NC, US
Stephen Rickus - Mooresville NC, US
Subramaniam Narayanasamy - Charlotte NC, US
James Resio - Blacksburg VA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/00

US Classification:

715239

Abstract:

A reporting engine for searching data in relational databases enables data retrieval through simple user input objects while respecting the business logic and security logic of the relational database. The reporting engine includes a template that expands user-input objects to search an exposed object network that is located in an application layer of the relational database. The reporting engine also displays the search results in output report format.

US Patent:

54974917, Mar 5, 1996

Filed:

Jan 26, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/009592

Inventors:

Herman Mitchell - Lithonia GA
William L. Rich - Charlotte NC
Floyd W. Shackelford - Beauford GA

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 944
G06F 1516

US Classification:

395700

Abstract:

A system and method for importing and exporting data between an object oriented computing environment and an external computing environment encapsulates the validation, conversion, and update control mechanisms for objects in metadata about the objects. Metadata logic operates identically on a variety of internal objects, freeing the object oriented computing environment from the need to duplicate the same control logic for each user interface. During program generation, metadata objects are generated to link an external computing environment data field name, a corresponding object oriented computing environment attribute name and a corresponding external data format for each external data field which is imported and exported. An external class object is defined, including conversion parameters for converting the corresponding object oriented computing environment attribute into the corresponding external data format. External object class metadata objects contain the object oriented computing environment attributes which are used for import and export.