Patents by Inventor Melissa Borza

Melissa Borza 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: 7418695
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing cross-platform software dependency information. A first exemplary method is disclosed that includes receiving a request for software dependency information relating to a number of platforms. The method also includes identifying a set of applications, each application corresponding to a one of the set of platforms. The method further includes transmitting to each of the identified applications a platform-specific software dependency query. A response to each platform-specific software dependency query is received from each of the identified applications, and the are combined into a combined query result. The method still further includes transmitting the combined query result containing the software dependency information in response to the initial query. Other methods, apparatus, systems and computer readable media are disclosed for presenting cross-platform software dependency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelvin Lam, Susan Cohan, Melissa A. Borza
  • Publication number: 20050138151
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing cross-platform software dependency information. A first exemplary method is disclosed that includes receiving a request for software dependency information relating to a number of platforms. The method also includes identifying a set of applications, each application corresponding to a one of the set of platforms. The method further includes transmitting to each of the identified applications a platform-specific software dependency query. A response to each platform-specific software dependency query is received from each of the identified applications, and the are combined into a combined query result. The method still further includes transmitting the combined query result containing the software dependency information in response to the initial query. Other methods, apparatus, systems and computer readable media are disclosed for presenting cross-platform software dependency information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Kelvin Lam, Susan Cohan, Melissa Borza