Patents by Inventor Mark Richard Tyler

Mark Richard Tyler 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 system for directing local data access from a remote system
    Patent number: 7904447
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for directing data access in a local system. The method includes steps of obtaining sharing metadata from the local system by a remote application, wherein the sharing metadata comprises local access path information for accessing a shared data resource associated with the local system, generating, by the remote application, a local access path for the shared data resource from the local access path information, requesting, by the remote application, that a data access application on the local system perform a data operation on the shared data resource, wherein the remote application provides the local access path to the data access application, and receiving the result of the data operation from the data access application, wherein the data access application performs the data operation on the shared data resource using the local access path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Kent S. Russell, Mark Richard Tyler, Bradley Gary Keck, Wei Wang, Louis Francisco daRosa, Jr.