Patents Represented by Attorney Kenneth A. Calfee, Halter & Griswold Seaman
  • Patent number: 5812989
    Abstract: An image statements preparation process and system uses a profile management facility for assigning system management profiles including statement group cycle profiles to group multiple statements according to cycles for preparation and processing, and to allow statements preparation work to be performed concurrently upon successive and overlapping statement cycles. A statements interactive session workstation and host are provided to allow profile-managed operator selection of statements by statement cycles on which data, including image data, reconciliation work is required. A statements interactive session workstation display presents account information including missing image items along with a list of unassigned image items so that image reconciliation can be performed by a statements interactive session operator. Missing image items can be scanned into memory at the statements interactive session workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dale Edward Witt, Judy James Potter, Chung-Hsi Wang
  • Patent number: 5768511
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for managing objects in a networked computer system. The networked computer system includes a client and a server. Data is persistently stored in the server in the form of an object. Each object includes attributes and methods and is accessible to a plurality of clients. An object is instantiated and materialized in a client when the client accesses the object. When a client desires to take an action in connection with an object, the server sends an updated object to the client. After receiving the updated object from the server, the client determines whether an existing object has been previously received from the server and stored in the client. If an existing object has not been previously received from the server and stored in the client, the client stores a pointer to the updated object in the client. In either case, the client then merges the existing object and the updated object and notifies windows in the client of changes to the existing object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Jeffrey Galvin, Zhiqiang Liu, Mary-Kathryn McLemore Nix, Vijay Vasandani