Curl Corporation

Lumigent Technologies, Inc.

Murray S Mazer

David A Kranz

Lev Vaitzblit

Stephen A Ward

Benjamin R Harrison

Spiro Michaylov

Stephen Ng

Patrick J LoPresti

Jonathan Jesse

Mary C Murphy

Susan B Hoover

Jason Orendorff

Lori J Fucarile

Carl A Soeder

Described is a database audit system used to monitor, and optionally alert on database activity, providing a complete record of access to data and database structure. The data audit system may also provide an audit trail of data accesses and changes to database schema and permissions. A database audit may be performed by collecting data from database transaction logs and traces, exporting the collected data into a repository, and analyzing the data in the repository to create data audit reports and to provide data audit browsing capabilities.

Process and system for auditing database activity

The present invention provides a licensing mechanism allowing for different forms of license for use in an environment of interconnected servers providing content. The invention comprises both methods and a system for licensing individual content based upon the nature of the use, thus facilitating the distribution of content without a license for non-commercial purposes and content with a license for commercial purposes. The system utilizes a special form placed within the content, the form containing either a legal assertion of the non-commercial nature of the use, or an identification of the licensee and other related data. If the form includes an identification of the licensee, a license server may be contacted to validate the license. The invention also includes a licensing tool or server to generate the appropriate form for insertion within the content.

Licensing system and method for freely distributed information

Persistent data storage for client computer software programs is provided using a repository that enables client computer software programs to store data securely on a client computer system, subsequently retrieve that data, and optionally share the data in a controlled fashion with authorized client computer software programs. The present invention can be used by both trusted and untrusted client computer software programs that either reside locally on the client computer system or are downloaded from a server computer system. A benefit of the present invention is that it allows untrusted applets to have access to persistent storage without compromising the integrity of the client computer system. Since the present invention controls persistent storage space, not the programmer of the client computer software program, the burden of insuring storage integrity and security is removed from the programmer. In addition to basic integrity and security features, the present invention provides automatic data format conversion for client computer software programs reading/writing data in the data repository, a commit operation to force in-memory repository data to disk, and automatic expiration to delete the repository after a predetermined time period. The repository can be pre-limited to a maximum size and shared among multiple client computer software programs.

Persistent data storage for client computer software programs

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Arlington, MA, United States of America

Murray S Mazer