Patents by Inventor Peter Micheal Klett

Peter Micheal Klett 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).

  • Archiving and retrieval method and apparatus
    Patent number: 6959308
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for maintaining an organized and automated archiving and retrieval system including a personal bibliography of original documents or other original real objects as well as an electronic archive containing copies of such original real objects with guaranteed access. Essentially this is done by establishing a machine and/or human readable “unique identifier” (UID) distributed with each original real object, a so-called personal archive allowing a person (or a group of persons) to maintain a personal bibliography, a managed storage containing electronic copies of the distributed original real objects, and means for a controlled, but guaranteed access to the stored electronic copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ferdinand Gramsamer, Peter Micheal Klett, Beat Liver, Hong Linh Truong
  • Archiving and retrieval method and apparatus
    Publication number: 20010016851
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for maintaining an organized and automated archiving and retrieval system including a personal bibliography of original documents or other original real objects as well as an electronic archive containing copies of such original real objects with guaranteed access. Essentially this is done by establishing a machine and/or human readable “unique identifier” (UID) distributed with each original real object, a so-called personal archive allowing a person (or a group of persons) to maintain a personal bibliography, a managed storage containing electronic copies of the distributed original real objects, and means for a controlled, but guaranteed access to the stored electronic copies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventors: Ferdinand Gramsamer, Peter Micheal Klett, Beat Liver, Hong Linh Truong