Patents by Inventor Gary Louis Macomber

Gary Louis Macomber 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).

  • Drag and drop technique for building queries
    Patent number: 7668858
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing a first system object is dropped onto a graphical component representing a query function. A set of attributes of the first system object is presented. Responsive to user selection, a search query is created from the selected set of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.
  • Drag and drop technique for building queries
    Patent number: 7039647
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing a first system object is dropped onto a graphical component representing a query function. A set of attributes of the first system object is presented. Responsive to user selection, a search query is created from the selected set of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.
  • Building software statements such as search queries to a tabular database through a user-interactive computer display interface
    Patent number: 6816855
    Abstract: A user-interactive display interface implementation for building structured software program statements and, particularly, such structured statements which may serve as search queries to databases including a plurality of display rows together with means enabling the entry of program terms into each of said rows. A template is vertically movable to each of said rows and includes a template row of indicators, each defining a type of program term enabled to be positioned in said row coincident with said indicator. There are a plurality of user-activatable menus of selectable terms, each menu respectively associated with one of said indicators. The selectable terms in each of the menus are respectively of the term type enabled to be positioned coincident with the associated indicator. Then, for editing purposes, there is selection of one of said indicators to thereby display the menu associated with the selected indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Mark Hartel, Rob P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.
  • Drag and drop technique for building queries
    Publication number: 20020169768
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing a first system object is dropped onto a graphical component representing a query function. A set of attributes of the first system object is presented. Responsive to user selection, a search query is created from the selected set of attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Regan
  • Building software statements such as search queries to a tabular database through a user-interactive computer display interface
    Publication number: 20020143749
    Abstract: A user-interactive display interface implementation for building structured software program statements and, particularly, such structured statements which may serve as search queries to databases including a plurality of display rows together with means enabling the entry of program terms into each of said rows. A template is vertically movable to each of said rows and includes a template row of indicators, each defining a type of program term enabled to be positioned in said row coincident with said indicator. There are a plurality of user-activatable menus of selectable terms, each menu respectively associated with one of said indicators. The selectable terms in each of the menus are respectively of the term type enabled to be positioned coincident with the associated indicator. Then, for editing purposes, there is selection of one of said indicators to thereby display the menu associated with the selected indicator. Preferably, the selected menu is a scrolled menu from the selected indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Mark Hartel, Rob P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan