Patents by Inventor Christine M. Hong

Christine M. Hong 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).

  • Architecture and definition of an extensible, object-oriented graphical user interface framework for managing and administering heterogenous digital library datastores
    Patent number: 6628305
    Abstract: An extensible, object-oriented graphical user interface (GUI) framework that provides a consistent “look and feel” for an application that interfaces to the GUI framework and that manages and administers a plurality of datastores. The GUI framework is extensible by means of a “plug-in” facility through which support for additional datastores can be added, so that a collection of heterogeneous datastores can be managed using one consistent user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christine M. Hong, Michael Eric Mancuso, Mark Joseph Sugg, Mimi Phuong-Thao Vo