US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 4 for "Generating target schema based on source schema and query expression" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,795, issued on March 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating target schema based on source schema and query expression" was invented by John Anthony Reeve (Winchester, Great Britain), Trevor Clifford Dolby (Minneapolis) and Andrew John Coleman (Petersfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a target schema is provided. The method comprises receiving an input schema that defines an input structure and receiving a transformation map. The transformation map and the input schema are both parsed, and a first tree for the map and a second tree for the schema are traversed i...