Patents by Inventor Elaine S. Patry

Elaine S. Patry 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).

  • Apparatus which allows data sharing amongst computer program from different program environments
    Patent number: 5557776
    Abstract: The ADL system provides a way in which computer programs written in different programming languages can share data. The ADL system comprises the ADL language and the facilities necessary to perform the data sharing function. The ADL language uses the concept of a data description and conversion module. A data description and conversion module, or more simply, an ADL module is composed of declarations and plans. Each declaration is an ADL description of how a particular program environment represents data. The plan portion of the ADL module contains ADL statements that instruct the computer system to convert the data representations of the source program environment into the data representations of the target program environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marsha A. Brown, Richard A. Demers, James A. Diephuis, Lorenzo Falcon, Jr., Thomas E. Frayne, Sunil S. Gaitonde, Elaine S. Patry, William A. Remay, Kenneth M. Sissors, Ejuana D. Vasquez, David J. Weber, Koichi Yamaguchi