Patents by Inventor Rob P. Lowe

Rob P. Lowe 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).

  • Building software statements such as search queries to a tabular database through a user-interactive computer display interface
    Patent number: 6816855
    Abstract: A user-interactive display interface implementation for building structured software program statements and, particularly, such structured statements which may serve as search queries to databases including a plurality of display rows together with means enabling the entry of program terms into each of said rows. A template is vertically movable to each of said rows and includes a template row of indicators, each defining a type of program term enabled to be positioned in said row coincident with said indicator. There are a plurality of user-activatable menus of selectable terms, each menu respectively associated with one of said indicators. The selectable terms in each of the menus are respectively of the term type enabled to be positioned coincident with the associated indicator. Then, for editing purposes, there is selection of one of said indicators to thereby display the menu associated with the selected indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Mark Hartel, Rob P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.
  • Building software statements such as search queries to a tabular database through a user-interactive computer display interface
    Publication number: 20020143749
    Abstract: A user-interactive display interface implementation for building structured software program statements and, particularly, such structured statements which may serve as search queries to databases including a plurality of display rows together with means enabling the entry of program terms into each of said rows. A template is vertically movable to each of said rows and includes a template row of indicators, each defining a type of program term enabled to be positioned in said row coincident with said indicator. There are a plurality of user-activatable menus of selectable terms, each menu respectively associated with one of said indicators. The selectable terms in each of the menus are respectively of the term type enabled to be positioned coincident with the associated indicator. Then, for editing purposes, there is selection of one of said indicators to thereby display the menu associated with the selected indicator. Preferably, the selected menu is a scrolled menu from the selected indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Mark Hartel, Rob P. Lowe, Gary Louis Macomber, Richard Walton Ragan