Patents by Inventor Mark A. Dehlin

Mark A. Dehlin 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).

  • Software suitability testing system
    Patent number: 6766481
    Abstract: A software suitability testing system using a software product line engineering approach for analyzing and testing commercial, off-the-shelf software products to determine the software product's capabilities. A software product is evaluated and tested against a predefined set of criteria requirements, and the results are published on the World Wide Web. The test results are made available to customers such that the capabilities of a particular software product are readily available to the users and that competing software products can be compared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation
    Inventors: James L. Estep, Mark A. Dehlin
  • Software suitability testing system
    Publication number: 20040015866
    Abstract: A software suitability testing system using a software product line engineering approach for analyzing and testing commercial, off-the-shelf software products to determine the software product's capabilities. A software product is evaluated and tested against a predefined set of criteria requirements, and the results are published on the World Wide Web. The test results are made available to customers such that the capabilities of a particular software product are readily available to the users and that competing software products can be compared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: James L. Estep, Mark A. Dehlin