Patents by Inventor Michael Jonathan Brinker

Michael Jonathan Brinker 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 for rapid expansion of multi-byte sorting weights table to include user supplied sorting weights
    Patent number: 5873001
    Abstract: A method and computer program product are provided for rapid expansion of multibyte sort information. A master table is copied to working table in the system memory. User sort information entries are received and the working table is updated with the received user sort information entries. Then the remaining entries in the working table are updated to sort after the received user sort information entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Jonathan Brinker, Patrick Leo Glenski, Katherine Klein Richardson