Patents by Inventor Balasingham Balakumaran

Balasingham Balakumaran 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).

  • Context-sensitive attributes
    Patent number: 7299448
    Abstract: A mechanism to enable context-sensitive attributes which comprise an attribute value and a context value defining the applicability of the attribute value in a computer application. The mechanism is adapted to manipulate the context-sensitive attributes, for example to facilitate creation of attribute values with associated context values, retrieve attribute values associated with a specific context value and search based on attribute values within a context value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Janette S. J. Wong, Balasingham Balakumaran, Richard T. Goodwin, Mark W. Hubbard, Jacob T. Vandergoot, Yi (Andy) Zhuang
  • Context-sensitive attributes
    Publication number: 20040189685
    Abstract: A mechanism to enable context-sensitive attributes which comprise an attribute value and a context value defining the applicability of the attribute value in a computer application. The mechanism is adapted to manipulate the context-sensitive attributes, for example to facilitate creation of attribute values with associated context values, retrieve attribute values associated with a specific context value and search based on attribute values within a context value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Janette S. J. Wong, Balasingham Balakumaran, Richard T. Goodwin, Mark W. Hubbard, Jacob T. Vandergoot, Yi (Andy) Zhuang