Patents by Inventor David Nicholas Youngers

David Nicholas Youngers 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).

  • Client/server computer system having personalizable and securable views of database data
    Patent number: 6134549
    Abstract: A client/server computer system having personalizable views of database data. The personalizable views programmed in client profiles which are customized for each client in the client/server computer system. The client/server computer system featuring a translator for converting client application database input and output requests into native database commands. The translator also supporting processing functions on data both retrieved from the database and stored to the database according to each individual client profile. The client/server computer system also supporting a hierarchy of preprogrammable group profiles which may be assigned to a group of clients. The client/server system also providing a security function for database data without modifying either the client applications executing on each client terminal or the native database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Showcase Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Ann Regnier, David Nicholas Youngers, Richard Dean Dettinger, Daniel Arlan Spors, John David Thorson
  • Client/server computer systems having control of client-based application programs, and application-program control means therefor
    Patent number: 5689708
    Abstract: A resource manager in a client/server computer network controls the availability of system resources. A system administrator generates a set of profiles which specify which system resources each user may employ for each of multiple application programs. Individual application programs may internally configure their possible choices of such system resources according to the appropriate profile on a dynamic basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: ShowCase Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Ann Regnier, David Nicholas Youngers