Patents by Inventor Simon J. Form

Simon J. Form 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).

  • Distributed object based systems for communicating object data among different storage domains
    Patent number: 5410688
    Abstract: An object based data processing system comprising a plurality of storage domains arranged so that a semantic object in a second storage domain can be accessed by the user of a first storage domain by the creation of a new presentation object in the first storage domain which is linked via a transient communication link to the semantic object in the second storage domain. Each storage domain includes a global object into which the user of the storage domain can place objects to be made accessible to other storage domains and a distributed object containing the global objects of all other storage domains. By opening a distributed object in any storage domain, the user is given access to the global objects of other storage domains, including those of other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Peter M. Williams, Ralph L. Carpenter, Simon J. Form, Jonathan A. Weiner, Brian W. McBride, Edmund F. Davies