Patents by Inventor Jack R. Waters, II

Jack R. Waters, II 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).

  • Key interface for secure object manipulation
    Patent number: 8504479
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to various tiers of functionality of core software are provided. A software developer/vendor can develop a single version of software having one or more limited-access functionalities and provide the single version of the software to various types of customers. Each customer, using the single version of the core software, may develop additional software that utilizes one or more functionalities of the core software as authorized by the software developer/vendor. Access to a certain functionality or set of functionalities by the customer developed software is obtained by adapting the customer developed software to submit a key, provided by the software developer/vendor, to the core software through, for example, an application programming interface (API) of the core software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Conexant Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Bader, Jack R. Waters, II, Eric R. Beaubien