Patents by Inventor Philip Stuart Resnik

Philip Stuart Resnik 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).

  • Multilingual agent for use in computer systems
    Patent number: 6615168
    Abstract: A multilingual agent of the present invention assists clients and users of clients in locating, accessing, and understanding documents on servers and also assists servers and providers of servers in making documents on the servers available to clients and users of clients, regardless of the languages in which the documents are written. A networked computer system in which the preferred embodiment of the present invention operates includes a client, a server, and a multilingual agent connected to one another via a network. The multilingual agent includes a document analyzer, a language identifier, a language converter, and a link modifier. In the operation of one aspect of the multilingual agent of the present invention, when the client retrieves a document from the server, the multilingual agent determines whether the document is written in a language that is unfamiliar to the user of the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Stuart Resnik, Gary R. Adams, Robert J. Kuhns, Mark C. Torrance