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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
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Drawings
The drawings filed on May 12, 2023 are accepted.
Specification
The specification filed May 12, 2023 is accepted.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-6, 9, 11 and 13-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Dasari et al. US 2021/0377276 A1 [hereinafter Dasari].
As per claims 1, 17 and 19 Dasari teaches a system comprising:
at least one hardware processor [figure 1]; and at least one memory storing instructions that cause the at least one hardware processor to execute operations comprising:
calling, by a first entity, a reference generator function using one or more arguments associated with a database object that the first entity is authorized to access according to a first set of access privileges, the one or more arguments comprising a scope definition that defines persistence of a reference [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091];
obtaining, from the reference generator function, a reference to the database object, the reference persisting according to the scope definition [paragraphs 00781, 0080, 0087-0091]; and
passing the reference to a second entity to enable the second entity to perform one or more database operations on the database object according to a second set of access privileges derived from the first set of access privileges [paragraphs 0126-0131].
As per claims 2, 18 and 20, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the database object comprises a table, an external table, a stream, a view, a materialized view, a warehouse, an application programming interface integration, a notification integration, or a function [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 3, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the first entity comprises a producer or caller process and the second entity comprises a consumer process [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 4, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the database object is accessed by the second entity as a role of the first entity [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 5, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the one or more arguments comprise the second set of access privileges as a subset of the first set of access privileges, the second set of access privileges including at least one or more fewer access privileges than the first set of access privileges [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 6, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the operations further comprise: executing an application or instance by the first entity on a database server; and calling the reference generator function as part of the application or instance, wherein the one or more arguments comprise an identifier of the database object including a domain of the database object [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 9, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the scope definition defines the reference as a session reference, and wherein the operations further comprise temporarily authorizing the second entity to access the object using the reference during an established session between the first and second entities [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 11, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the scope definition defines the reference as a persistent reference with an unlimited life span until removed by the first entity [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 13, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the operations further comprise: presenting, to the first entity, access history associated with the database object, the access history representing operations performed on the database object using the reference [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 14, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the operations comprise at least one of INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and COPY operations [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 15, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the access history represents a history of instance or application queries associated with the database object accessed using the reference [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
As per claim 16, Dasari further teaches the system wherein the access history comprises at least one of a query identifier, a query start time, a username, one or more database objects accessed, or one or more database objects modified [paragraphs 0078, 0080, 0087-0091 and 0126-0131].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 7, 8, 10 and 12 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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BEEMNET W. DADA
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2435
/BEEMNET W DADA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2435
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