Patents by Inventor Paul C. Heckel

Paul C. Heckel 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).

  • Interface and application development management system based on a gene metaphor
    Patent number: 5228123
    Abstract: A system for compiling and managing screen images on a stack or data base with attached fields, and application program objects. The system lets users compile programs from screen images and their attached objects, which if executed after the screen image and object parameters have been changed, will translate the same screen image with the same objects attached in the same places. This allows maintaining multiple formats each with different application for the same stack. The system can be used to (a) edit screen formats in the program's script language, (b) manage alternative user interfaces for a data base or stack, (c) provide multiple formats and application interfaces for the same data base, (d) have multiple user interfaces for the same data base depending on users sophistication, (e) solve the system update installation problem, and (f) allow copying user interface including functional capability from one stack and installing it in another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Inventor: Paul C. Heckel
  • Search/retrieval system
    Patent number: 4736308
    Abstract: A computer program provides for the display of selected portions of two or more records on a display screen where the portions selected are from different records, and may be from different files. Provision is made for scrolling of the full text of the displayed records, which may be grouped by common subject matter.Alternatively one of the two or more records may be displayed on the full screen with the capability for selectively switching between the single record and two or more records or a display showing portions of more than one record from more than one file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Quickview Systems
    Inventor: Paul C. Heckel
  • Display system for the suppression and regeneration of characters in a series of fields in a stored record
    Patent number: 4486857
    Abstract: A microprocessor having a limited display capability is programmed to display a series of data fields from a record in which certain characters are selectively suppressed so that the whole or a selected portion of a record is represented. Upon actuation a selected field will be restored to its full data length for temporary display on the display medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Quickview Partners
    Inventor: Paul C. Heckel
  • Search/retrieval system
    Patent number: RE36653
    Abstract: A computer program provides for the display of selected portions of two or more records on a display screen where the portions selected are from different records, and may be from different files. Provision is made for scrolling of the full text of the displayed records, which may be grouped by common subject matter.Alternatively one of the two or more records may be displayed on the full screen with the capability for selectively switching between the single record and two or more records or a display showing portions of more than one record from more than one file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Inventors: Paul C. Heckel, Charles H. Clanton