Patents by Inventor Kevin Glen Minard

Kevin Glen Minard 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).

  • Component based designer for modifying and specializing wizards
    Patent number: 6574791
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention an object oriented wizard creation mechanism provides an environment and set of facilities for creating and modifying wizards. The preferred embodiment wizard creation mechanism provides a WizardWizard mechanism for creating the skeleton of new wizard, a WizardDesigner mechanism for specializing and WizardMetaDataManager mechanism for persisting and retrieving created wizards. The WizardWizard guides the developer through a predetermined series of steps that are required to define a the basic components of a new wizard. The WizardDesigner takes these basic components and guides the developer through a specialization process that further customizes and defines the new wizard. In the preferred embodiment, the WizardWizard and the WizardDesigner create and specialize the target wizard from a component based Wizard framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Salo Gauthier, Kevin Glen Minard, Jay Daniel Toogood
  • Component based wizard for creating wizards
    Patent number: 6502234
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention an object oriented wizard creation mechanism provides an environment and set of facilities for creating and modifying wizards. The preferred embodiment wizard creation mechanism provides a WizardWizard mechanism for creating the skeleton of new wizard, a WizardDesigner mechanism for specializing and WizardMetaDataManager mechanism for persisting and retrieving created wizards. The WizardWizard guides the developer through a predetermined series of steps that are required to define a the basic components of a new wizard. The WizardDesigner takes these basic components and guides the developer through a specialization process that further customizes and defines the new wizard. In the preferred embodiment, the WizardWizard and the WizardDesigner create and specialize the target wizard from a component based Wizard framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Salo Gauthier, Kevin Glen Minard, Jay Daniel Toogood