Patents by Inventor Kimberley L. McGuire

Kimberley L. McGuire 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).

  • Reliable and repeatable process for specifying developing distributing and monitoring a software system in a dynamic environment
    Patent number: 6226784
    Abstract: A reliable and repeatable process for specifying, developing, distributing, and monitoring a software system or application within a dynamic environment includes the steps of specifying a set of software system requirements during a discovery process within a data processing environment, establishing a development and delivery schedule for distribution of the software system, developing a software system corresponding to the software system requirements during a development process, and developing and testing an install package to be used to install the software system in a test environment within the data processing environment. The install package includes the software system and routines configured to automatically instantiate the software system in the test environment. The developing and testing step takes a first amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Marty Holmes, Imran Jan, Kenneth Lockie, Kimberley L. McGuire