Patents by Inventor Kathy Lockaby Khalifa

Kathy Lockaby Khalifa 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, system and computer program products for delayed message generation and encoding in an intermittently connected data communication system
    Patent number: 5859973
    Abstract: Methods, data processing systems and program products provide delayed generation and encoding of data transmissions by storing a reference to a message to be transmitted as an entry in a transmission request queue. After establishing a communication connection between a host data processor and the portable data processor, the message corresponding to the entry in the transmission request queue is generated, encoded and then transmitted to the host data processor over the communication connection. If user input is received which requests that information resident in the data processor be modified, the data processor determines if the information associated with the modification request includes information contained in a message associated with an entry in the transmission request queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Carpenter, Kathy Lockaby Khalifa, David Bruce Lection