Patents by Inventor Mary Lynn Cashin

Mary Lynn Cashin 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).

  • Object oriented model of preloading software
    Patent number: 7007273
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for creating a preload. A preload may be stored onto a computer system prior to the computer system being manufactured. One or more attributes of an object of a preload may be defined. Each preload object may be an aggregation of one or more software element objects. A comparison may be made between the attributes in each software element object with the one or more attributes in the defined preload object. Upon identifying one or more software element objects whose attributes comprise the one or more attributes of the defined preload object, one or more part numbers associated with the one or more identified software element objects may be transmitted to a manufacturing system. Software associated with the identified one or more software element objects may be retrieved and installed onto a preload associated with the defined preload object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Mary Lynn Cashin, Timothy Alan Jones, Joshua Neil Novak, Rod David Waltermann, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Object oriented model of preloading software
    Publication number: 20030084437
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for creating a preload. A preload may be stored onto a computer system prior to the computer system being manufactured. One or more attributes of an object of a preload may be defined. Each preload object may be an aggregation of one or more software element objects. A comparison may be made between the attributes in each software element object with the one or more attributes in the defined preload object. Upon identifying one or more software element objects whose attributes comprise the one or more attributes of the defined preload object, one or more part numbers associated with the one or more identified software element objects may be transmitted to a manufacturing system. Software associated with the identified one or more software element objects may be retrieved and installed onto a preload associated with the defined preload object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mary Lynn Cashin, Timothy Alan Jones, Joshua Neil Novak, Rod David Waltermann, Arnold S. Weksler