Patents by Inventor Mark C Hastings

Mark C Hastings 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 and apparatus to control translatable properties of metadata
    Patent number: 7596777
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a translation locking mechanism comprising a locking system to permit locking of translatable properties of an object within a project. The apparatus further comprises a lock tester to determine whether the locking system prevents edits to a particular property; and an editing tool to prohibit alteration of the properties that are affected by translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Fallen-Bailey, Mark C. Hastings, Bharat Jindal, Jayant Kulkarni, Vipul Shroff, Peter A. Thorson
  • Method and apparatus for upgrading a software application in the presence of user modifications
    Patent number: 7076778
    Abstract: A method for upgrading (31-b of FIG. 1) a software application (35-b) from a prior version to a subsequent version while preserving user modifications to the prior application. The method includes comparing differences between the two versions of the software applications. This is followed by enumerating the differences between the two versions of the software applications; and determining which differences between the two versions of the software are conflicting and which are compatible. The compatible changes are made (7). Also disclosed is an article of manufacture containing computer readable program code for carrying out the above process, and a program storage device carrying the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Brodersen, John L. Coker, Mark C Hastings
  • Method and apparatus for upgrading a software application in the presence of user modifications
    Publication number: 20020129352
    Abstract: A method for upgrading (31-b of FIG. 1) a software application (35-b) from a prior version to a subsequent version while preserving user modifications to the prior application. The method includes comparing differences between the two versions of the software applications. This is followed by enumerating the differences between the two versions of the software applications; and determining which differences between the two versions of the software are conflicting and which are compatible. The compatible changes are made (7). Also disclosed is an article of manufacture containing computer readable program code for carrying out the above process, and a program storage device carrying the code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Robert A. Brodersen, John L. Coker, Mark C. Hastings
  • Method of upgrading a software application in the presence of user modifications
    Patent number: 6367077
    Abstract: A method for upgrading (31-b of FIG. 1) a software application (35-b) from a prior version to a subsequent version while preserving user modifications to the prior application. The method includes comparing differences between the two versions of the software applications. This is followed by enumerating the differences between the two versions of the software applications; and determining which differences between the two versions of the software are conflicting and which are compatible. The compatible changes are made (7). Also disclosed is an article of manufacture containing computer readable program code for carrying out the above process, and a program storage device carrying the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Brodersen, John L. Coker, Mark C Hastings