Patents by Inventor James Mark Norman

James Mark Norman 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).

  • Chaining information card selectors
    Patent number: 8353002
    Abstract: A machine includes card stores to store information cards. For each card store, one or more card selectors can be provided. When performing a transaction involving information cards, a generic card selector, using a selector policy engine, can identify a card selector to use for the transaction. The identified card selector can be used to identify an information card in a card store to use in performing the transaction, which can be used to provide a security token to the relying party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James Mark Norman, Daniel S. Sanders
  • Chaining information card selectors
    Patent number: 8087060
    Abstract: A machine includes card stores to store information cards. For each card store, one or more card selectors can be provided. When performing a transaction involving information cards, a generic card selector, using a selector policy engine, can identify a card selector to use for the transaction. The identified card selector can be used to identify an information card in a card store to use in performing the transaction, which can be used to provide a security token to the relying party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Inventors: James Mark Norman, Daniel S. Sanders
  • Framework and technology to enable the portability of information cards
    Patent number: 8074257
    Abstract: When a user connects a pluggable card store to a machine, the machine plugs a pluggable card provider into a card provider registry. The pluggable card store can be an object portable to the user, or can be a remote store available via some connection, such as an FTP connection. The user can then use the information cards stored on the pluggable card store in a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventors: Patrick R. Felsted, Andrew A. Hodgkinson, Daniel S. Sanders, James G. Sermersheim, James Mark Norman
  • Method and apparatus to dynamically provide web content resources in a portal
    Patent number: 7987421
    Abstract: To display content in a user's preferred language, a content provider locates a layout information file to determine how to display the content. A layout strings file storing a layout string in a specific language is selected, according to the user's preferred languages. The content from a content provider and the layout string are then formatted as specified by the layout information file, and presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventors: Boyd H Timothy, Olin Sayre Atkinson, Christopher Jean Seiler, Matthew Gerrit Brooks, Shawn Matthew Holmstead, John Ransom VanOrman, II, James Mark Norman
  • Method to dynamically determine a user's language for a network
    Patent number: 7412374
    Abstract: A portal system identifies a language in which content can be displayed to the user. Possible languages can be determined from one or more of identity information for the user, a container for the user's directory entry, and the user's location. The determined languages can be ranked, and the highest-ranked available language can be selected for content display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Jean Seiler, Matthew Gerrit Brooks, Olin Sayre Atkinson, James Mark Norman, Boyd “H” Timothy, Timothy Paul Schmanski