Patents by Inventor George William Norman

George William Norman 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).

  • Isolating client application requests for device services through an object-oriented service stack system
    Patent number: 6564270
    Abstract: A method and system for providing services in an object-oriented system. The method and system are in the form of an interface reference framework of objects, which create services, in response to requests. Clients request services which are created in response to the requests. In response to the request, the framework first develops a description of the service. The description is in the form of a stack of descriptions of services. From the stack descriptions the actual services are created by maker objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn P. Andert, George William Norman
  • System for connecting a client to a server with a protocol stack dynamically constructed by using top and bottom service descriptions as query parameters
    Patent number: 5864668
    Abstract: A method and system for providing services in an object oriented system. The method and system are in the form of an interface reference framework of objects which create services in response to requests. Clients request services which are created in response to the requests. In response to the request the framework first develops a description of the service. The description is in the form of a stack of descriptions of services. From the stack descriptions the actual services are created by maker objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Object Technology Licensing Corp.
    Inventors: Glenn P. Andert, George William Norman