Patents by Inventor Diane Louise Skeel

Diane Louise Skeel 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).

  • Patent number: 5793982
    Abstract: An installation plan object including application objects representing applications to be installed during an installation process and workstation objects representing the workstation on which the applications are to be installed is validated prior to executing the installation plan. According to the invention, multiple sets of communication modules, that is redirector and transport modules are capable of installing the applications on the workstations over a computer network. Therefore, the availability and compatibility of the redirectors and transports at the workstations must be assured. After the installation plan object is built by the user of application objects and workstation objects, the attributes of the application objects are examined for the communication modules which may be used for installation of the applications on the workstations. Next, the validation process determines whether the communication modules are available during the installation process at the workstations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Theodore Jack London Shrader, John Lawrence Bunce, Diane Louise Skeel, George Edward Dever, Jr.