Patents by Inventor James L. McClure

James L. McClure 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 automatically retrieving proprietary and standard directory object formats
    Patent number: 6850928
    Abstract: A system for, and method of, automatically retrieving a directory object from a database and a directory server incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a request reception module that receives a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) request for an attribute of the directory object that is expressed in a proprietary format and (2) a request fulfillment module, associated with the request reception module. If the directory object contains the attribute expressed in the proprietary format, the request fulfillment module retrieves the attribute expressed in the proprietary format from the database. If the directory object does not contain the attribute expressed in the proprietary format, the request fulfillment module retrieves the attribute expressed in a standard format from the database and recasts the attribute expressed in the standard format as the attribute expressed in the proprietary format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventors: James L. McClure, Greg M. Vaudreuil