Patents by Inventor Gregory Clark Richardson

Gregory Clark Richardson 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).

  • System and method for deploying a hardware configuration with a computer program
    Patent number: 6807631
    Abstract: A system and method for deploying a hardware configuration with a computer program. The program may perform an instrumentation, measurement/control, industrial automation, or machine vision function, or other type of function utilizing hardware devices, and the behavior of the program may depend on various aspects of the hardware configuration of the computer system. An installation bundle that includes configuration information related to the hardware devices with which the program interacts may be automatically created and used to deploy the program on a new computer system. The installation bundle may include program instructions operable to install the program on the new computer system and automatically modify the hardware configuration of the new computer system so that the program will execute correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: David W Fuller, III, John David Stanhope, Joseph Albert Savage, Gregory Clark Richardson
  • System and method for a deploying a hardware configuration with a computer program
    Publication number: 20030097551
    Abstract: A system and method for deploying a hardware configuration with a computer program. The program may perform an instrumentation, measurement/control, industrial automation, or machine vision function, or other type of function utilizing hardware devices, and the behavior of the program may depend on various aspects of the hardware configuration of the computer system. An installation bundle that includes configuration information related to the hardware devices with which the program interacts may be automatically created and used to deploy the program on a new computer system. The installation bundle may include program instructions operable to install the program on the new computer system and automatically modify the hardware configuration of the new computer system so that the program will execute correctly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: David W. Fuller, John David Stanhope, Joseph Albert Savage, Gregory Clark Richardson