Patents by Inventor Robert P. Lowe

Robert P. Lowe 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).

  • Drag and drop technique for building queries
    Patent number: 7668858
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing a first system object is dropped onto a graphical component representing a query function. A set of attributes of the first system object is presented. Responsive to user selection, a search query is created from the selected set of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.
  • Drag and drop technique for building queries
    Patent number: 7039647
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing a first system object is dropped onto a graphical component representing a query function. A set of attributes of the first system object is presented. Responsive to user selection, a search query is created from the selected set of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.
  • Method and apparatus for displaying resource information
    Patent number: 6943793
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for presenting resource information. A plurality of three-dimensional elements in a view is displayed in which each element represents a resource in a network data processing system. Additional information regarding a parameter associated with the element is displayed in response to a user input interacting with an element from the plurality of three-dimensional elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roderick Clint Bowser, Brian Douglas Brandenburg, Robert P. Lowe, Darren Kelly Upton
  • Method and apparatus for visualizing changes in data
    Publication number: 20040093564
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for visualizing changes in text data, such as in software code or a document, are provided. When two versions of text data are to be compared, each of the versions of text data are loaded into memory, such as a text data buffer. A display of the two versions is then generated with one version of the text data superimposed over the other. That is, the text is compared so that corresponding or matched text is displayed in the same location on the display such that the appearance of corresponding text in the two versions is as if there were a single document displayed. The display is then switched between the first version of the text data and the second version of the text data. The result of such switching is that portions of text that are dissimilar between the versions appear to move due to their dissimilarity. The “movement” of the text is easily discernible to the human eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Bruce Kumhyr, Robert P. Lowe
  • Drag and drop technique for building queries
    Publication number: 20020169768
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing a first system object is dropped onto a graphical component representing a query function. A set of attributes of the first system object is presented. Responsive to user selection, a search query is created from the selected set of attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Regan