Patents by Inventor Edward J. Perry

Edward J. Perry 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: 6999966
    Abstract: A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based storage hierarchy. The system includes a library server having a stored procedure which creates a hierarchical tree-based storage structure having any number of child components horizontally and any number of component types vertically thus specifying a tree topology. Advantageously, a single invocation of the stored procedure will create the specified tree-based data storage structure which is stored in the library server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lily L. Liang, Tawei Hu, Kenneth C. Nelson, David M. Choy, Khanh M. Le, Edward J. Perry
  • Patent number: 6944627
    Abstract: A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based storage hierarchy. The system includes a stored procedure which enables information to be retrieved from different arbitrary locations throughout the storage hierarchy. Advantageously, the system retrieves information from both simple and complex tree-based storage hierarchies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Zhang, Li Ming Wang, Lily L. Liang, Tawei Hu, Edward J. Perry, Khanh M. Le
  • Patent number: 6938050
    Abstract: A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based hierarchy for storing information such as item information. An information retrieval interface is provided to facilitate retrieval of information from the tree-based table hierarchy. The number of cursors employed for retrieving information is dynamically variable with the number of tables in the hierarchy. Advantageously, the content management system permits tables to be added or appended to the initial tree-based table hierarchy after the database is created. The number of cursors is dynamically varied to accommodate the additional cursors needed to query the additional table or tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Khanh M. Le, Tawei Hu, Edward J. Perry, Howard Zhang, Lily L. Liang
  • Publication number: 20030204537
    Abstract: A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based storage hierarchy. The system includes a library server having a stored procedure which creates a hierarchical tree-based storage structure having any number of child components horizontally and any number of component types vertically thus specifying a tree topology. Advantageously, a single invocation of the stored procedure will create the specified tree-based data storage structure which is stored in the library server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lily L. Liang, Tawei Hu, Kenneth C. Nelson, David M. Choy, Khanh M. Le, Edward J. Perry
  • Publication number: 20030204478
    Abstract: A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based hierarchy for storing information such as item information. An information retrieval interface is provided to facilitate retrieval of information from the tree-based table hierarchy. The number of cursors employed for retrieving information is dynamically variable with the number of tables in the hierarchy. Advantageously, the content management system permits tables to be added or appended to the initial tree-based table hierarchy after the database is created. The number of cursors is dynamically varied to accommodate the additional cursors needed to query the additional table or tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Khanh M. Le, Tawei Hu, Edward J. Perry, Howard Zhang, Lily L. Liang
  • Publication number: 20030200224
    Abstract: A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based storage hierarchy. The system includes a stored procedure which enables information to be retrieved from different arbitrary locations throughout the storage hierarchy. Advantageously, the system retrieves information from both simple and complex tree-based storage hierarchies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Zhang, Li Ming Wang, Lily L. Liang, Tawei Hu, Edward J. Perry, Khanh M. Le
  • Patent number: 4699642
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing substantially pure liquid carbon dioxide, and subsequently re-evaporating the substantially pure liquid carbon dioxide to produce substantially pure gaseous carbon dioxide from impure carbon dioxide gas which is produced during the fermentation step of a brewing process or has been used as an overgas in a brewing plant, the substantially pure gaseous carbon dioxide being for use in carbonating the brewed product or as an overgas in the brewing plant. The process comprises the steps of:(a) removing impure carbon dioxide gas from the brewing plant;(b) pressurizing the impure carbon dioxide gas.The present invention also provides an apparatus for carrying out the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Kims Developments Limited
    Inventors: Edward J. Perry, Anthony R. Coleman