Patents by Inventor Sean F. Brennan

Sean F. Brennan 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for process, factory-floor, environmental, computer aided manufacturing-based or other control system using hierarchically enumerated data set
    Publication number: 20040002950
    Abstract: The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for workflow editing. Such methods and apparatus permit, for example, user-defined and/or other tasks to be combined in any combination or combinations to specify a workflow. The tasks can be linked for direct, serial processing and/or for conditional processing that includes branching and/or looping. The invention also improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with extensible actions. The invention provides, further, improved methods and apparatus for workflow definition and processing which utilize workflow variables for communication of data and control information among tasks within a workflow. The invention provides, still further, improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with enhanced messaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Sean F. Brennan, Robert A. DeRemer, Robert D. Hallquist, Paul W. LeMert, Edward R. Mundorf, Steven M. Weinrich, Julia Wright
  • Methods and apparatus for process, factory-floor, environmental, computer aided manufacturing-based or other control system with real-time data distribution
    Publication number: 20030217054
    Abstract: The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for workflow editing. Such methods and apparatus permit, for example, user-defined and/or other tasks to be combined in any combination or combinations to specify a workflow. The tasks can be linked for direct, serial processing and/or for conditional processing that includes branching and/or looping. The invention also improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with extensible actions. The invention provides, further, improved methods and apparatus for workflow definition and processing which utilize workflow variables for communication of data and control information among tasks within a workflow. The invention provides, still further, improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with enhanced messaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: George E. Bachman, Sean F. Brennan, Bruce D. Budinger, Robert A. DeRemer, Lorin V. Grubb, Robert D. Hallquist, Paul W. LeMert, James C. Long, Edward R. Mundorf, Steven M. Weinrich, Julia Wright