Patents by Inventor Lynne C. Thieme

Lynne C. Thieme 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).

  • Method for sharing common values implicitly among communicating generative objects
    Patent number: 4937760
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing common values in a distributed system, at least one node of which is a cyclic, rule-based, object-sensitive production system. Values altered in one part of the system are implicity rather than explicitly communicated and processed to and from the rule-based node. All communications to the rule-based node of common values changed by the nonrule-based nodes are by way of a list independent of and concurrently with any procedural request of the rule-based node, there being no necessary relation between the list contents and the procedural request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley J. Beitel, Robert D. Gordon, Ming C. Hao, Steven V. Kauffman, Ronald L. Obermarck, Arthur M. Sherman, Lynne C. Thieme, Gene E. Trivett, Lynn Trivett