Patents by Inventor Anthony Paul Vinski

Anthony Paul Vinski 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 replacing physical terminals interacting with hardware specific programs
    Patent number: 6011915
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for replacing terminals, linked in a client server relationship with a central server, interacting with hardware specific programs within the central server, and wherein each terminal is identified by hardware specific programs within said central server via specific hardware attributes, and where the specific hardware attributes include at least a port identification and an I/O processor identification associated with the port identification. The method and system achieve the foregoing via the following. A processor is substituted for a selected terminal. Particular hardware attributes of the selected terminal are identified. The identified particular hardware attributes of the selected terminal are emulated using communications software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Dale Aaker, Mark Arnold Boegel, Harvey Gene Kiel, Thomas Edwin Murphy, Jr., Paul Francis Rieth, Anthony Paul Vinski