Patents by Inventor Allen Moses Gilbert

Allen Moses Gilbert 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 and system for simultaneous presentation of multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces
    Patent number: 6118428
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed which may be utilized to generate a simultaneous presentation within a data processing system of video data within multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces. Each graphic user interface is coupled to a separate display device driver. Window movements including: creation; deletion; resizing; movement; minimization; maximization; activation; enablement; or an alteration in relative background/foreground order are detected for each graphic user interface and that information and the associated display device driver for each graphic user interface are coupled to a virtual device driver which facilitates interprocess communication between two or more graphic user interfaces, wherein the portion of the video display which is managed by each graphic user interface may be ascertained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Monroe Blackmon, Barry Alan Feigenbaum, Mark Allen Fiechtner, Jeffrey Thomas Galea, Allen Moses Gilbert, David Andrews Kerr, Paul R. King, Tatchi Placido Lay, Ivan Lomelli, Darren Mark Miclette, Colin Victor Powell, Glenn Thomas Puchtel, Jonathan Mark Wagner