Patents by Inventor Joerg Winckler

Joerg Winckler 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).

  • Objects with self-reflecting object relevance functions
    Patent number: 6681367
    Abstract: The invention relates to objects within a computer-system said objects comprise object data and the invention relates to a specification of an object-specific, self-reflecting relevance-function associated with the objects. The specification of the relevance-function allows an object-exploiter to evaluate an object-relevance at a certain point in time without inspecting the object-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carsten Griwodz, Joerg Winckler