Patents by Inventor Grace P. Wong

Grace P. Wong 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).

  • Publication number: 20100058233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for discovering new features in an application graphical user interface (GUI). In an embodiment of the invention, a method for discovering new features in an application GUI can be provided. The method can include determining a correspondence between a GUI element in a GUI for a computing application and a new feature for the computing application, annotating the GUI element with a new feature indicia, and removing the new feature indicia once the GUI element has been accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Allen V. Chan, Perry R. Giffen, Jung W. Van, Grace P. Wong
  • Publication number: 20080077849
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for maintaining an association between a marker and a model item in a data model is provided. A data model is loaded into a workspace. The data model is associated with the marker. The marker identifies the model item in the data model and thereby defines the association between the marker and the model item. The method obtains the association and responsive to a change in the data model that disrupts the association, updates the association to be valid, causing the marker to be updated accordingly if the changed data model is saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Gregory D. Adams, P. Randolph Giffen, Adam D. Wilson, Grace P. Wong