Patents by Inventor John Andrew Lawrence

John Andrew Lawrence 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).

  • Patent number: 6615207
    Abstract: In a computer controlled user-interactive display system interface through which the user may easily access stored search queries to database via a displayed search query tree, there is formulation and presentation of the tree of queries in a manner enabling user-interactive rearrangement of the tree. The displayed tree has a plurality of selectable nodes, each node representative of a stored search query, arranged in a hierarchical order indicative of the order of searching by said query. An interactive user input is enabled to rearrange said tree to a different hierarchical order, and the resulting rearranged tree with the different hierarchical order is displayed. In this manner, different users of said interface may access data from said database in an order relative to their respective needs. The invention may be most advantageously used with queries in structured query language and in relational databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: John Andrew Lawrence
  • Patent number: 6356286
    Abstract: A computer controlled user-interactive display system interface through which the user may access stored search queries to database and then initiate selected searches executed by such queries. The interactive interface includes a displayed tree having at least one root node representative of a view into a table from the database and a plurality of subnodes under the root node, each subnode representative of a stored search query for said table view. The interface system also includes an implementation for executing a search represented by a subnode in response to a user selection of that subnode, and an expedient for presenting the results of said executed search on the display. The preferred display layout would have the tree displayed in one region of the display screen and the result of the executed search presented in a screen region next to the tree region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: John Andrew Lawrence