Patents by Inventor Edward T. Hughes, III

Edward T. Hughes, III has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5546577
    Abstract: Instrumentation logic is provided to map object oriented protocols to efficient data management protocols to provide direct, keyed access to multiple data entries. An object oriented database is utilized to model a complex process since it is easily extended to include tables of transactions for each of the many process steps in a complex operation. The database is accessed through the Desktop Management Interface (DMI) with individual DMI commands issued to get or set each individual entry. An application requiring access to many entries would require detailed knowledge of the database and would need to generate many DMI commands. For such an application, instrumentation logic is provided and is accessed by the application through a normal DMI command. The instrumentation then generates all of the successive DMI commands needed to access multiple entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James W. Marlin, Raymond L. Knudson, Thomas M. Ruehle, Anthony F. Stuart, Edward T. Hughes, III