Patents by Inventor Marc A. Epard

Marc A. Epard 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: 8166518
    Abstract: A computer implemented method provides remote access to a plurality of sessions at a computer. The method includes initiating a master process in a context independent from the sessions, establishing a first slave process in a context of a first session, and maintaining communication between the master process and the first slave process. The master process provides access to the computer's display while the display is under control of the first session, detects a second session, having a respective second slave process, communicates with the second slave process, and provides access to the computer's display while the display is under control of the second user session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Netopia, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Byron Price, Marc A. Epard, Donald W. Griffin
  • Publication number: 20080114851
    Abstract: A computer implemented method provides remote access to a plurality of sessions at a computer. The method includes initiating a master process in a context independent from the sessions, establishing a first slave process in a context of a first session, and maintaining communication between the master process and the first slave process. The master process provides access to the computer's display while the display is under control of the first session, detects a second session, having a respective second slave process, communicates with the second slave process, and provides access to the computer's display while the display is under control of the second user session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Byron Price, Marc A. Epard, Donald W. Griffin
  • Patent number: 5241625
    Abstract: A system for remotely observing and optionally controlling information, including text and graphical images, displayed on a computer from among both homogeneous and heterogeneous computers coupled in a network or via other transport media such as magnetic disks captures window system event messages during a recording process. Such messages are then translated into procedure calls during the imaging process on the destination platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Farallon Computing, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Epard, He Ping, Neal E. Trautman, Paul F. VanVleck