Patents by Inventor Robert S. Rosenthal

Robert S. Rosenthal 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).

  • System for selectively routing and merging independent annotations to a document at remote locations
    Patent number: 5239466
    Abstract: A personal communicating computer (112) (FIG. 1) remains in contact, via a wireless network, with an office server (101). Documents from various sources can be transmitted to the personal communicating computer (112) using this network. Upon receipt, such documents can be accessed and utilized in a variety of ways. In particular, such documents can be annotated in a variety of ways, and those annotations forwarded on to other destinations for appropriate review and handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Morgan, John Major, Eric K. Crane, Janusz Hyziak, Robert S. Rosenthal, Neil N. Wellenstein
  • Asynchronous operation in a database management system
    Patent number: 5224212
    Abstract: A real-time database management system in which data generated by a producer process is buffered in a plurality of update buffers and transmitted asynchronously into a consumer process, such as a database management system, so that neither the producer process nor the consumer process has to halt operations during I/O requests and data is not lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Rosenthal, Valentin Oprescu
  • Method for retrieving and updating data in a real-time data base system
    Patent number: 5101488
    Abstract: In a real-time data base system, data is updated by reading the data and checking an exception flag associated with a locked status. If the exception flag is not set, the data is locked and read in an updatable fashion. If the data is locked, the data may still be read if a peek-mode access is requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Rosenthal, Valentin Oprescu