Patents by Inventor Dieter Gottschall

Dieter Gottschall 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).

  • Integration of GUI application with external application extensions
    Patent number: 6604150
    Abstract: A computerized method for dynamically extending a main application comprising a first user-interface-control by at least one supplementary application is proposed. The method comprises a first-step of monitoring system-messages of a system-message-queue and determines if a monitored system-messages comprises a user-interaction-request for creating said first user-interface-control of said main application. In the affirmative case, an indicator is set that said user-interaction-request for creating said first user-interface-control has been detected. Said method comprises a second-step monitoring application-messages of an application-message-queue and associates in response to setting said indicator the next one or multitude of application-message with said monitored system-message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gebhart, Dieter Gottschall, Juergen Jung, Silke Wastl