Patents by Inventor Gary Lee Mack

Gary Lee Mack 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: 6055551
    Abstract: A computer network for gathering information and reaching consensus in a multi-user collaborative environment for Process Safety Management (PSM). Comments and ideas are gathered simultaneously from team members in a meeting, using the network. Apparatus is provided for storing these inputs and retrieving them from a database, and for printing them in predefined formats. The system provides for team members to submit their ideas anonymously in a meeting so that people uncomfortable with speaking in front of a group can freely share their ideas. The system automatically records input so ideas are not lost or misrecorded. The input is converted from the first database into a format for word processing to produce the required documents, into a format for a project management system to schedule the work to complete PSM documentation, and into a format to produce flow changes to the process being analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip David Heinlein, Carl Frank Ingersoll, Gary Lee Mack
  • Patent number: 5950217
    Abstract: A computer network for gathering information and reaching consensus in a multi-user collaborative environment for Process Safety Management (PSM). Comments and ideas are gathered simultaneously from team members in a meeting, using the network. Apparatus is provided for storing these inputs and retrieving them from a database, and for printing them in predefined formats. The system provides for team members to submit their ideas anonymously in a meeting so that people uncomfortable with speaking in front of a group can freely share their ideas. The system automatically records input so ideas are not lost or misrecorded. The input is converted from the first database into a format for word processing to produce the required documents, into a format for a project management system to schedule the work to complete PSM documentation, and into a format to produce flow changes to the process being analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip David Heinlein, Carl Frank Ingersoll, Gary Lee Mack
  • Patent number: 5800181
    Abstract: A computer network for gathering information and reaching consensus in a multi-user collaborative environment for Process Safety Management (PSM). Comments and ideas are gathered simultaneously from team members in a meeting, using the network. Apparatus is provided for storing these inputs and retrieving them from a database, and for printing them in predefined formats. The system provides for team members to submit their ideas-anonymously in a meeting so that people uncomfortable with speaking in front of a group can freely share their ideas. The system automatically records input so ideas are not lost or misrecorded. The input is converted from the first database into a format for word processing to produce the required documents, into a format for a project management system to schedule the work to complete PSM documentation, and into a format to produce flow charges of the process being analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip David Heinlein, Carl Frank Ingersoll, Gary Lee Mack