Patents by Inventor Richard Youngkin

Richard Youngkin 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).

  • Data-driven and plug-in defined event engine
    Publication number: 20070073739
    Abstract: An event engine enables application developers to define finite state machines (FSMs) that they want to implement, via a data-driven approach as opposed to having to hardcode the FSMs. The event engine has three notable characteristics: computations may be associated with FSM state transitions, the set of computations that is associated with each transition is specified by data (illustratively an XML document), and the particulars of the computations are defined and handled by plug-ins, each with the same interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Terry Jennings, Richard Youngkin