Patents by Inventor Dudley Burnham Miller

Dudley Burnham Miller 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).

  • Distributing computer programs to a customer's multiple client computers through a hypertext markup language document distributed to and stored on the customer's network server computer
    Patent number: 7028296
    Abstract: the transmission to and the storage in a customer server computer connected to a network of a plurality of client computers, a Hypertext Markup Language document that includes an embedded program applet for selectively accessing each of the application programs being distributed, and an embedded installation applet for accessing a program for installing the application programs being distributed on said client computers. When a user at one oF the client computers wishes to have one of the application programs installed, the user requests the document, preferably a Web page (i.e. an HTML implemented document), to be displayed, the user selects one of the application programs for installation by clicking on the displayed Web page hyperlink. In response to such a selection, the installation applet is sent to and stored on the client computer that selected said application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Syed Babar Irfan, William M. Lee, Dudley Burnham Miller, Michael Alexander Moras
  • Distributing computer programs to a customer's multiple client computers through a hypertext markup language document distributed to and stored on the customer's network server computer
    Publication number: 20030115287
    Abstract: The transmission to and the storage in a customer server computer connected to a network of a plurality of client computers, a Hypertext Markup Language document that includes an embedded program applet for selectively accessing each of the application programs being distributed, and an embedded installation applet for accessing a program for installing the application programs being distributed on said client computers. When a user at one of the client computers wishes to have one of the application programs installed, the user requests the document, preferably a Web page (i.e. an HTML implemented document), to be displayed, the user selects one of the application programs for installation by clicking on the displayed Web page hyperlink. In response to such a selection, the installation applet is sent to and stored on the client computer that selected said application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Syed Babar Irfan, William M. Lee, Dudley Burnham Miller, Michael Alexander Moras