Patents by Inventor James T. Van Loo

James T. Van Loo 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).

  • Method and apparatus for application packages and delegate packages to adopt and export standard execution state machine interfaces
    Patent number: 6799319
    Abstract: A cascadable state machine that observes the execution state machine of multiple client applications, aggregates the multiple execution states into a single execution state for the observation object, reports the aggregate execution state through the same execution state machine interface as the client applications, and cascades changes to the execution state machine of the observation object to the client applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Van Loo
  • Methods and apparatus for efficiently accessing sequentially broadcast data
    Patent number: 6748372
    Abstract: The disclosure presents an apparatus, system, and method for file access for difficult domains, such as data broadcast, where the time to access a file can be considerable. The invention interposes a file access object between the client and the platform that is both scalable and interoperable. The invention decomposes file access into four (application visible) interfaces that scale between a most basic access (such as, for example, a simple load function) to the most expressive access (such as, a retrieve function).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Van Loo
  • Methods and apparatus for efficiently accessing sequentially broadcast data
    Publication number: 20020129124
    Abstract: The disclosure presents an apparatus, system, and method for file access for difficult domains, such as data broadcast, where the time to access a file can be considerable. The invention interposes a file access object between the client and the platform that is both scalable and interoperable. The invention decomposes file access into four (application visible) interfaces that scale between a most basic access (such as, for example, a simple load function) to the most expressive access (such as, a retrieve function).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Van Loo
  • Method and apparatus for application packages and delegate packages to adopt and export standard execution state machine interfaces
    Publication number: 20020049734
    Abstract: A cascadable state machine that observes the execution state machine of multiple client applications, aggregates the multiple execution states into a single execution state for the observation object, reports the aggregate execution state through the same execution state machine interface as the client applications, and cascades changes to the execution state machine of the observation object to the client applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Van Loo