Patents by Inventor Frank W. Gilchrist

Frank W. Gilchrist 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).

  • Method and apparatus for limiting manipulation of documents within a multi-document relationship in a data processing system
    Patent number: 5132900
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for limiting manipulation of individual documents within a multi-document relationship in accordance with a plurality of user specified preferences. A user preference object is created and utilized to store a plurality of user specified preferences for selected documents or for all documents which contain a selected attribute. Thereafter, any attempted manipulation, such as transmission, copying or deleting, of a document within the multi-document relationship will be limited in accordance with the stored preferences within the user preference object. In this manner, a distribution service may relay and distribute a selected document which might not normally be distributed due to incompatible characteristics of other documents which exist in a relationship with the selected document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frank W. Gilchrist, Marvin L. Williams