Patents by Inventor Joerg Barfurth

Joerg Barfurth 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).

  • Methods and systems for providing configuration data
    Publication number: 20030200286
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture provide configuration data from a configuration server to a client. The configuration server receives a request to provide a value for a configuration data item. The configuration server then determines a set to which the configuration item is assigned, with the set being associated with a rule. Then, the configuration server determines a value of the configuration item by applying the rule associated with the set and transmits the determined value of the configuration item to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Barfurth, Joerg Heilig
  • Managing a layered hierarchical data set
    Publication number: 20020083073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to managing a layered hierarchical data set. According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a hierarchical data set has a state attribute associated with each data element in the hierarchy. When a user accesses data element in the hierarchical data set, a sub-tree of the hierarchical data is presented to the user. When the user operates on a data element, the state attribute of the node associated with the data element is updated. Using the updated state attribute, the entire hierarchical data set is managed so that when a user accesses the data again, it is presented correctly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Neelam N. Vaidya, Joerg Barfurth, Dirk Grobler, Krishnendu Chakraborty