Patents by Inventor Gerald Eugene Sullivan

Gerald Eugene Sullivan 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).

  • Method and system for detecting a state of a web application using a signature
    Patent number: 8347393
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a signature for determining whether a web page is in a first state or a second state, comprising the steps of selecting a plurality of web pages for processing, requesting the web pages in the first state, dividing the first state pages into a first set of text blocks, requesting the web pages in the second state, dividing the second state pages into a second set of text blocks, eliminating from the first and second sets the text blocks that are common between the first and second set, generating a signature comprising the text blocks of the first set as a component indicative of the first state and the text blocks of the second set as a component indicative of the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Prajakta Subbash Jagdale, Gerald Eugene Sullivan, Leonid Promyshlyansky Bensman
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A STATE OF A WEB APPLICATION USING A SIGNATURE
    Publication number: 20100180193
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a signature for determining whether a web page is in a first state or a second state, comprising the steps of selecting a plurality of web pages for processing, requesting the web pages in the first state, dividing the first state pages into a first set of text blocks, requesting the web pages in the second state, dividing the second state pages into a second set of text blocks, eliminating from the first and second sets the text blocks that are common between the first and second set, generating a signature comprising the text blocks of the first set as a component indicative of the first state and the text blocks of the second set as a component indicative of the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY L.P.
    Inventors: Prajakta Subbash Jagdale, Gerald Eugene Sullivan, Leonid Promyshlyansky Bensman