Patents by Inventor Ron E. Pontrich

Ron E. Pontrich 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).

  • Resource-based synchronization between endpoints in a web-based real time collaboration
    Patent number: 9425973
    Abstract: A system for providing resource-based synchronization between clients in a Web-based real-time collaboration, in which a session front end on the server layers a transaction history on top of all session resources. HTTP operations are issued by client systems to request changes to session resources and to request session updates. The HTTP resource change requests include hierarchical pointers containing session identifiers and resource identifiers within a URL. The client generated resource change request operations may be HTTP PUT, HTTP DELETE, and HTTP POST commands. The HTTP session update request operations may be HTTP GET commands. A session front end stores each received resource change request operation in a resource-specific transaction history of change request operations received from all client systems. The session front end maintains a current session state indicating the number of resource change request operations stored for each session resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Quinn, Ron E. Pontrich, Ramya Sethuraman, Christopher D. Price, Christopher A. Hyland, Aseel Aziz-Gomez
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE-BASED SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN ENDPOINTS IN A WEB-BASED REAL TIME COLLABORATION
    Publication number: 20080155104
    Abstract: A system for providing resource-based synchronization between clients in a Web-based real-time collaboration, in which a session front end on the server layers a transaction history on top of all session resources. HTTP operations are issued by client systems to request changes to session resources and to request session updates. The HTTP resource change requests include hierarchical pointers containing session identifiers and resource identifiers within a URL. The client generated resource change request operations may be HTTP PUT, HTTP DELETE, and HTTP POST commands. The HTTP session update request operations may be HTTP GET commands. A session front end stores each received resource change request operation in a resource-specific transaction history of change request operations received from all client systems. The session front end maintains a current session state indicating the number of resource change request operations stored for each session resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: William M. Quinn, Ron E. Pontrich, Ramya Sethuraman, Christopher D. Price, Christopher A. Hyland, Aseel Aziz-Gomez