Patents by Inventor Robin M. S. Cork

Robin M. S. Cork 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).

  • Method of testing a data communication system
    Patent number: 4437184
    Abstract: A method of testing the implementation of a communication system definition by constructing a model of the communication system definition in a high level computing language such as PL/1; compiling the model and producing an executable machine language program; monitoring and recording messages transmitted by the data communication system; extracting relevant message-related information; using the extracted message unit sequence as input data to the executable machine language program; executing the machine language program and using the results of the execution to give an indication whether or not the messages were constructed correctly according to the communication system definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Robin M. S. Cork, David B. Rose