Patents by Inventor Geraldine E. Edwards

Geraldine E. Edwards 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).

  • Apparatus and method for gathering and entering data requirements from multiple users in the building of process models and data models
    Patent number: 5590360
    Abstract: A computer-based apparatus and method for gathering Information for data model and Process model development includes a plurality of terminals on a local area network at which multiple users enter Information in a structured manner in response to an ordered sequence of screens displayed for a given project; a centralized database for receiving the Information from the multiple users; and a bridge program for transforming the group-entered Information stored in the database into a format that a computer-based information engineering tool can create into a model. An analyst workstation is included to enable only an analyst to edit gathered Information in response to comments from users and provide certain consensus inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Geraldine E. Edwards