Patents by Inventor Blair T. Wheadon

Blair T. Wheadon 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).

  • Patent number: 9026701
    Abstract: A method, system, application programming interface, and computer program product that enable enterprise data management application programs to request input/output services from a device manager controlling devices. The device manager operates in a heterogeneous environment including incompatible devices provided by multiple vendors. These requests, and responses from the device manager to the enterprise data management application program, are communicated in a markup language format, rather than in a device-specific native language. This structure enables the vendor of the enterprise data management application program to send requests for services, including both data and instructions to use specialized features of a device, without the need to change the enterprise data management application program to support device-specific native languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Finnerty, Ming-Tao Liou, Blair T. Wheadon, Xia Liu, Ying-Chieh Lan