Patents by Inventor Robert M. Wyman

Robert M. Wyman 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).

  • Publication number: 20100318538
    Abstract: A computer system including instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, may include a query manager configured to manage a query corpus including at least one predictive query, and a document manager configured to receive a plurality of documents from at least one document source, and configured to manage a document corpus including at least one document obtained from the at least one document source. The computer system also may include a predictive result manager configured to associate the at least one document with the at least one predictive query to obtain a predictive search result, and configured to update a predictive cache using the predictive search result, and may include a search engine configured to access the predictive cache to associate a received query with the predictive search result, and configured to provide the predictive search result as a search result of the received query, the search result including the at least one document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Wyman, Trevor Strohman, Paul Haahr, Laramie Leavitt, John Sarapata
  • Patent number: 5745879
    Abstract: A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed program upon start-up makes a call to a license server to check on whether usage is permitted, and the license server checks a database of the licenses, called product use authorizations, that it administers. If the particular use requested is permitted, a grant is returned to the requesting user node. The product use authorization is structured to define a license management policy allowing a variety of license alternatives by values called "style", "context", "duration" and "usage requirements determination method". The license administration may be delegated by the license server to a subsection of the organization, by creating another license management facility duplicating the main facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M. Wyman
  • Patent number: 5438508
    Abstract: A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed product upon start-up makes a call to a license server to check on whether usage is permitted, and the license server checks a database of the licenses, called product use authorizations, that it administers. If the particular use requested is permitted, a grant is returned to the requesting user node. The product use authorization is structured to define a license management policy allowing a variety of license alternatives by values called "style", "context", "duration" and "usage requirements determination method". The license administration may be delegated by the license server to a subsection of the organization, by creating another license management facility duplicating the main facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M. Wyman
  • Patent number: 5260999
    Abstract: A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed product upon start-up makes a call to a license server to check on whether usage is permitted, and the license server checks a database of the licenses, called product use authorizations, that it administers. If the particular use requested is permitted, a grant is returned to the requesting user node. The product use authorization is structured to define a license management policy allowing a variety of license alternatives by values called "style", "context", "duration" and "usage requirements determination method". The license administration may be delegated by the license server to a subsection of the organization, by creating another license management facility duplicating the main facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M. Wyman
  • Patent number: 5204897
    Abstract: A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed product upon start-up makes a call to a license server to check on whether usage is permitted, and the license server checks a database of the licenses, called product use authorizations, that it administers. If the particular use requested is permitted, a grant is returned to the requesting user node. The product use authorization is structured to define a license management policy allowing a variety of license alternatives by values called "style", "context", "duration" and "usage requirements determination method". The license administration may be delegated by the license server to a subsection of the organization, by creating another license management facility duplicating the main facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M. Wyman