Patents by Inventor Loey K. Knapp

Loey K. Knapp 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).

  • Computer systems, method and program for constructing statements by dragging and dropping iconic representations of subcomponent statements onto a phrase template
    Patent number: 5909678
    Abstract: The system, method, and program of this invention enables construction of statements, including queries, programs, and commands, by using drag and drop templates. A predefined phrase template, which is generated and displayed to a user, imposes syntactic and semantic constraints in constructing the statement. Objects representing entities and objects representing subphrases can be dragged and dropped onto phrase receptacles within the phrase and subphrase templates. Complex statements can be constructed from a nesting of subphrases using the drag and drop technique. The constructed statement is displayed to the user along with the subphrase structure of the statement through nested panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Bergman, Loey K. Knapp, Jerald T. Schoudt, Barbara L. Skelly