Patents by Inventor Ian Jack

Ian Jack 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).

  • Patent number: 7030836
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring collections of non-display, input and output devices and display devices in a multi-user computer system. Initially, the invention heuristically creates at least two collections of non-display devices, each of which includes a keyboard, by analyzing connection patterns of each of the non-display devices to the computer data buses. Display devices are added to each collection by causing a user prompt to appear on a display, and then causing the display to be associated with the collection of the keyboard that is used to respond to the prompt. Each display device is associated with a particular collection in this manner. Thus, the collections are constructed by a heuristic methodology relative to the non-display devices, and manually relative to the display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Thinsoft, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Justice, Manfred Siemsen, Ian Jack
  • Publication number: 20040119659
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring collections of non-display, input and output devices and display devices in a multi-user computer system. Initially, the invention heuristically creates at least two collections of non-display devices, each of which includes a keyboard, by analyzing connection patterns of each of the non-display devices to the computer data buses. Display devices are added to each collection by causing a user prompt to appear on a display, and then causing the display to be associated with the collection of the keyboard that is used to respond to the prompt. Each display device is associated with a particular collection in this manner. Thus, the collections are constructed by a heuristic methodology relative to the non-display devices, and manually relative to the display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Bradley Justice, Manfred Siemsen, Ian Jack
  • Patent number: 5893116
    Abstract: A Replication and Synchronization Engine (RSE) provides a user of a mobile computer with a consistent namespace of resources available to a network despite the connection status of the computer. The specifications (names) of the resources as viewed by the user when the computer is connected to the network are identical to the names as viewed by the user when the computer is disconnected from the network. RSE provides such a consistent namespace by maintaining complete, local replicas of a user-selected subset of these resources at the mobile computer, along with local "name-only" representations of the remaining resources. The resources maintained by RSE may include any network resource, such as a server, volume, directory, file, printer queue and other object, that the mobile computer can access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Simmonds, Ian Jack, Dusan Marincic, Anthony M. Wilkes