International Business Machines Corporation

Lightech Electronics Industries, Ltd.

Zvi Schreiber

Joshua Fox

Boris Melamed

Rannen Meir

Benjamin Halberstadt

Hayden Marchant

Shaul Barak

Ziv Zalman Hellman

Victor Zinkler

Ruth M Amaru

Shafrir Romano

Guy Yitzhaki

Joseph Edelstein

Ben Berger

David Cavenor

Ahuva Hazan-Fuchs

Shafrir Rimano

A metadata management system for importing, integrating and federating metadata, including a configurable metamodel, a metadata repository for storing metadata whose structure reflects the metamodel, at least one external metadata source, which is able to persist metadata in accordance with the structure of a meta-schema, a mapping module for mapping the meta-schema to the metamodel, and a transformation module, operatively coupled to the metadata mapping module, for translating specific metadata from the at least one external metadata source to the metadata repository, for use in import, export or synchronization of metadata between the external metadata source and the metadata repository. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described.

Business rules for configurable metamodels and enterprise impact analysis

A system for managing and querying a plurality of data sources, including an interface to a plurality of inter-related data sources of diverse types, each of the plurality of data sources having a schema that describes its data structure, a schema generator communicating with the interface, for generating a federated schema that describes the structures of the plurality of data sources and their inter-relationships, and for modifying the federated schema over time as the plurality of data sources undergo changes, and a query generator communicating with the schema generator, for generating a query for the federated schema. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described.

Method and system for federated querying of data sources

A method for mapping data schemas into an ontology model, including providing an ontology model including classes and properties of classes, providing a data schema, identifying a primary data construct within the data schema, identifying a secondary data construct within the primary data construct, mapping the primary data construct to a corresponding class of the ontology model, and mapping the secondary data construct to a property of the corresponding class of the ontology model. A system and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.

Method and system for mapping enterprise data assets to a semantic information model

An enterprise information unification system including an information modeler for modeling business entities and their properties as an information model, the information model being comprised of business constructs, a data rationalizer for generating mappings from physical data assets to the information model, the physical data assets being comprised of data asset constructs, and a data thesaurus for automating tasks of data management based on the mappings. A method is also described and claimed.

Enterprise information unification

A track lighting hybrid illumination system comprising a power supply circuit ( ) having an input for connecting to a voltage source ( ) of low frequency for providing an output voltage with altered electrical characteristics, and a pair of conductors ( ) coupled to an output of the power supply circuit. A first lamp ( ) is coupled to the conductors via a second power supply circuit ( ), and at least one further lamp ( ) with electrical power requirements of a different characteristic to the first lamp coupled to the conductors.

Power supply for hybrid illumination system

A track lighting hybrid illumination system comprising a power supply circuit having an input for connecting to a voltage source of low frequency for providing an output voltage with altered electrical characteristics, and a pair of conductors coupled to an output of the power supply circuit. A first lamp is coupled to the conductors via a second power supply circuit, and at least one further lamp with electrical power requirements of a different characteristic to the first lamp coupled to the conductors.

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Jerusalem, Israel

Zvi Schreiber