Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Grant Johnston

Jeffrey Grant Johnston 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).

  • Hover help support for application source code
    Patent number: 9141344
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for proving hover help support is described. In one embodiment, the method includes loading a documentation file generated from application source code. The method may also include parsing the documentation file to determine a context of elements within the documentation file. Furthermore, the method may include generating a model of the documentation file based on the context of the elements and storing the model in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Grant Johnston
  • ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOVER HELP SUPPORT FOR C++ APPLICATION SOURCE CODE
    Publication number: 20110197178
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for proving hover help support is described. In one embodiment, the method includes loading a documentation file generated from application source code. The method may also include parsing the documentation file to determine a context of elements within the documentation file. Furthermore, the method may include generating a model of the documentation file based on the context of the elements and storing the model in a memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: Jeffrey Grant Johnston
  • Locking tool data objects in a framework environment
    Patent number: 6026401
    Abstract: When data, such as tool data, is commonly accessible, there is a danger that concurrent user processes will make overlapping modifications and leave the data in an incomplete or incomprehensible state. The invention provides a locking mechanism to guard against this. The lock objects are maintained in pool or repository. Two types of lock objects are provided; shareable locks that may be shared by many user processes and permit only read access to the locked data, and exclusive locks, useable by only one user process at a time, that permit the owning process to modify the locked data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Lawrence Brealey, Jeffrey Grant Johnston, Vladimir Klicnik, David Martin Lauzon, Lok Tin Loi, Dirk Alexander Seelemann, II