Patents by Inventor Jerry Frain

Jerry Frain 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).

  • Manager object for management of multiple resources on dataless clients in a distributed computing environment
    Patent number: 7035895
    Abstract: A method of managing a set of clients in a distributed computer network having a management server. A given client preferably includes a dataless management framework. According to the method, a manager object is associated to each application to be managed on a given client. The manager object preferably includes a registry composed of a set of elements, with each element corresponding to an instance of the application. The element comprises a data set of information representing a context of the application instance. All application instances are then managed through the manager object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jason James Hooper, Jerry Frain, James F. Kelton