Patents by Inventor Edwin Gibbons

Edwin Gibbons 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).

  • Managing user permissions in a computer system
    Publication number: 20070079385
    Abstract: A method of operating a printer coupled to a computer, the method comprising associating one or more permissions of a printer driver resident on the computer with an operating system managed object and, when an attempt is made to print on said print device or a User Interface of the printer driver opened, setting the status of said permissions according to one or more security settings of the operating system managed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Jonathan Williams, Edwin Gibbons, Geoffrey Soord