Patents by Inventor Mark W. Lumsden

Mark W. Lumsden 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: 6668369
    Abstract: A software debugging tool for assisting a programmer in locating errors in content or coding, etc. generated at the client, e.g., using scripts and/or dynamic HTML. Whereas current debugging tools, such as the “View Source” option of popular Web browsing software, permits the programmer to view only the hard-coded HTML coding as it is received from a Web server, the present invention permits the programmer to view the HTML coding and/or content generated at the client. This assists the programmer to locate errors in, or “debug”, software, since it is frequently easier to detect errors in the results of an executed script than it is to detect errors in the script itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William H. Krebs, Mark W. Lumsden
  • Patent number: 6012098
    Abstract: A technique, system, and computer program for using servlets to isolate the retrieval of data from the rendering of the data into a presentation format. Data retrieval logic is isolated to a data servlet, and presentation formatting is isolated to a rendering servlet. Servlet chaining is used to send the output of the data servlet to the rendering servlet. The data servlet formats its output data stream for transfer to a downstream servlet. This data stream may be formatted using a language such as the Extensible Markup Language (XML), according to a specific Document Type Definition (DTD). The rendering servlet parses this XML data stream, using a style sheet that may be written using the Extensible Style Language (XSL), and creates a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) data stream as output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Elias N. Bayeh, Mark W. Lumsden
  • Patent number: 6006217
    Abstract: A computer implemented technique, system and method for providing enhanced search results for searches for documents on the Internet. In response to a search request form a user at a client computer, a search engine at a search server performs a search for documents at Internet sites matching the search criteria. A list of matching documents is provided to the client in the form of a hits list. For each document on the hits list, a link is provided to a server which will provide the document to the client in an enhanced format. Upon selection of such a link for a document, a message is sent to the server, and the server retrieves the document from its home server, and modifies the document to graphically highlight the matches to the search criteria found in the document and logically links the matches, so that selection of one match in the document by the user will automatically cause the client to display the portion of the document having the next sequential match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Mark W. Lumsden