Patents by Inventor Erik Peter Mesterton

Erik Peter Mesterton 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).

  • System for classifying and sending selective requests to different participants of a collaborative application thereby allowing concurrent execution of collaborative and non-collaborative applications
    Patent number: 5887170
    Abstract: A method and system provide for selectively distributing communications between an application and multiple servers, allowing cooperative use of a single copy of an application. The system is situated between an application and the multiple servers. Requests from the application, responses to the requests, and events from the multiple servers, are managed in such a way that each server believes it is connected directly to the application and the application believes it is connected directly to a single server. The requests are categorized and distributed to the servers based on the type of request. The responses to these requests may be sent to the application or discarded based on the type of request and the role of the server sending the request. The events are also categorized and, based on the role of the server causing the event, they may be passed on to the application or discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine Malia Ansberry, Jay Douglas Freer, Todd W. Fuqua, Erik Peter Mesterton, Catherine Ann Stillwagon, Ching-Yun Yang