Patents by Inventor David Fletcher Evans

David Fletcher Evans 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 apparatus for a distributed web commerce system
    Publication number: 20020174034
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for processing commercial transactions of a user over a large geographic area. The system for processing commercial transactions includes a network, and one or more primary computing nodes connected to the network and a plurality of secondary computing nodes connected to the network in which each of the plurality of secondary computing nodes being associated with one of the plurality of geographic sites. The system also includes product inventories in which the product inventories are associated with one of the geographic sites. A catalog of products identifying the product inventories is present. One or more primary computing nodes notifies the secondary computing nodes of the catalog. A user contacts a first node from the plurality of secondary computing nodes. The user may purchase or place a product order with the first node with the “first node” forwarding the order to one or more primary computing nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kai-Yin Au, Donald Alexander Bourne, Qi Cheng, Asit Dan, Daniel Manuel Dias, David Fletcher Evans, Richard P. King, Ivan Lew, John F. Schumacher, Hidayatullah H. Shaikh, Johnny Wai-Nang Wong, Yanchun Zhao