Patents by Inventor Diane K. Emmerson

Diane K. Emmerson 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).

  • Secure access frustrom culling for multi user CAx
    Patent number: 10339225
    Abstract: A computerized method and system for computer-aided design access control is disclosed. The method includes receiving a part definition for a part at a server, the part definition comprising a plurality of components and a level of access required for each component of the plurality of components, receiving a request from a user to manipulate the part, the user being associated with a user access level, verifying the user access level against each level of access required for each component of the plurality of components, and presenting a render of the part to the user based on the part definition, the render comprising each component of the plurality of components where the user access level meets the associated level of access required and a placeholder for each component of the plurality of components where the user access level does not meet the associated level of access required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William A. Sowa, Charles Gregory Jensen, Kurt R. Heinemann, Andrew D. Milliken, Diane K. Emmerson, Joshua Daniel Winn, Christopher Farnum, Robert Ivan Yorgason