US Patent Issued to Workday on Jan. 13 for "Security description framework" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,565, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Security description framework" was invented by Vamsi Thummala (Pleasanton, Calif.), Prasanna JayaPrakash (Livermore, Calif.) and Gary Heck (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for enforcing security with respect to a database. The system includes a database configured to receive a query, wherein the query is modified to comprise one or more security predicates; determine data to return in response to the query by examining the one or more security predicates with respect to...