Patents by Inventor Keith O. Carlson

Keith O. Carlson 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).

  • Coupling rules to an object-oriented program
    Patent number: 5644770
    Abstract: A method of coupling rules to a data domain of an object-oriented computer program. During run time, the coupling permits the computer to use rules to directly access user-defined objects for both the matching and the action phases of the inferencing process, Inferencing is implemented with an inference class object and user-defined class object are derived from a working memory element class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Fred H. Burke, Keith O. Carlson, Richard C. Roth
  • Coupling rules to an object-oriented program
    Patent number: 5423041
    Abstract: A method of coupling rules to a data domain of an object-oriented computer program. During run time, the coupling permits the computer to use rules to directly access user-defined objects for both the matching and the action phases of the inferencing process. Inferencing is implemented with an inference class object and user-defined class object are derived from a working memory element class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Fred H. Burke, Keith O. Carlson, Richard C. Roth