Patents by Inventor Harry D. Mitchell

Harry D. Mitchell 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).

  • Call management in a collaborative working network
    Patent number: 5539886
    Abstract: A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network comprises a conventional operating system and network control layer for controlling physical routing of data between nodes. A collaborative application subsystem which interfaces with application programs is responsive to a predetermined call from a collaboration call manager to establish the call manager at the node to handle incoming events which are not specific to any application program instances at the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Barry K. Aldred, Gordon W. Bonsall, Howard S. Lambert, Harry D. Mitchell