Patents by Inventor Philip Lester Flowers

Philip Lester Flowers 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: 7113947
    Abstract: A technique for manipulating objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving one or more requests to manipulate an object, wherein each request is received from a different thread. Each request to manipulate an object generates a copy of the object and a unique identifier for each copy of the object. A request to manipulate a copy of an object is distinguished from other requests to manipulate other copies of the object using the unique identifier. Additionally, a technique for accessing objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving a request from a client process for an object which is stored in an object server. A library server process is allocated to handle the object request. Transfer of the requested object is initiated. Thereafter, the library server process that was allocated to the object request is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Edward Benson, Philip Lester Flowers, Chris Myunghoon Lee, Thomas S. Lee, Mayank V. Shah, Shirley S. Wang
  • Patent number: 6871203
    Abstract: A technique for manipulating objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving one or more requests to manipulate an object, wherein each request is received from a different thread. Each request to manipulate an object generates a copy of the object and a unique identifier for each copy of the object. A request to manipulate a copy of an object is distinguished from other requests to manipulate other copies of the object using the unique identifier. Additionally, a technique for accessing objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving a request from a client process for an object which is stored in an object server. A library server process is allocated to handle the object request. Transfer of the requested object is initiated. Thereafter, the library server process that was allocated to the object request is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Edward Benson, Philip Lester Flowers, Chris Myunghoon Lee, Thomas S. Lee, Mayank V. Shah, Shirley S. Wang
  • Publication number: 20030069890
    Abstract: A technique for manipulating objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving one or more requests to manipulate an object, wherein each request is received from a different thread. Each request to manipulate an object generates a copy of the object and a unique identifier for each copy of the object. A request to manipulate a copy of an object is distinguished from other requests to manipulate other copies of the object using the unique identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Edward Benson, Philip Lester Flowers, Chris Myunghoon Lee, Thomas S. Lee, Mayank V. Shah, Shirley S. Wang
  • Patent number: 5802524
    Abstract: The invention relates to directing one or more object-based search engines to an object store, which stores information archived according to parametric classifiers. In order for the object-based search engine to access the objects, a special index class, in the form of a SQL table is created. The index class comprises attributes of a part number, an object identification number, an item identifier, a search state attribute, and a search engine identifier, an object being assigned a corresponding value for each attribute and each object being uniquely identified by the item identifier attribute. The search engine is activated depending on the type of data object to be indexed, in accordance with the search state attribute the catalog table. A computer readable medium is provided with program code to implement the above integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Lester Flowers, Stefan Raimund Orban, Roland Seiffert, Thomas S. Lee, Mandy L. Wang