Patents by Inventor Deborah Scharfetter

Deborah Scharfetter 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, system and article of manufacture for creating composite objects and executable user interfaces for these objects that utilize relationships represented by metadata
    Publication number: 20040070617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of dynamically relating a first operation to a second operation in forming a desired relationship. The method comprises searching in an application dictionary for operations involving one or more characteristics relating to the first operation and the second operation based on a user input. The method selects the first operation and the second operation from the application dictionary. Finally the method joins the first operation to the second operation to form the desired relationship. The present invention is also an article of manufacturing comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein configured to perform the foregoing method. Finally, the present invention also comprises a computer system having a computer which executes the foregoing described method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Roger Sippl, Chris Maloney, Deborah Scharfetter