Patents by Inventor Marie S. Jansen

Marie S. Jansen 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 information communication between concurrently operating computer programs
    Patent number: 5574917
    Abstract: A method of communication in a computer system is provided for transferring information between multiple, concurrently operating programs, each of which may have a respective window display. The user communicates with each of the application programs through the window display as well as through an input device, such as a mouse or keyboard. A list of information codes is registered with a dispatcher program for each of the application programs which requires data. One or more of the application programs generate templates which include data and a corresponding information code. The generated templates are transmitted to the dispatcher program. The dispatcher program then compares the information code in the received template to the registered list of information codes to find any matches and thereby identify the one or more application programs which have registered to receive the information in the received template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Good, Harold A. Hildebrand, Cedric V. Snyder, Jr., Joseph L. Stiles, Kathleen M. Whitfield, Marie S. Jansen
  • Method for information communication between concurrently operating computer programs
    Patent number: 5448738
    Abstract: A method of communication in a computer system is provided for transferring information between multiple, concurrently operating programs, each of which may have a respective window display. The user communicates with each of the application programs through the window display as well as through an input device, such as a mouse or keyboard. A list of information codes is registered with a dispatcher program for each of the application programs which requires data. One or more of the application programs generate templates which include data and a corresponding information code. The generated templates are transmitted to the dispatcher program. The dispatcher program then compares the information code in the received template to the registered list of information codes to find any matches and thereby identify the one or more application programs which have registered to receive the information in the received template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Good, Harold A. Hildebrand, Cedric V. Snyder, Jr., Joseph L. Stiles, Kathleen M. Whitfield, Marie S. Jansen