Patents by Inventor Steven Brandes

Steven Brandes 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: 20120043864
    Abstract: The invention is Display Frame System comprised of an outer unit and inner member which pivots where a female and male edge of each respectively meet. The inner member swings into the outer unit engaging the remaining edges by means of a locking mechanism. The combination of the outer unit and inner member serve to hold a display panel/board in place. Pins, medals or the like can be secured to the display panel/board. The system allows for extreme ease of accessing the pins or medals displayed as well as the ability to transport and use the assembled frame in other manners of display such as upon an easel as well as vertically or horizontally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventor: Steven Brandes
  • Patent number: 6594819
    Abstract: A method for establishing a collection of application software programs capable of being hosted by a user. Application kits for software applications are received, each application kit including executable application files and additional application related data. For each software application contained in an application kit, one or more offerings are created, each offering including at least some of the additional application related data in the application kit and pricing terms for hosting of the application, and a server upon which the software application may be hosted is identified. The offerings are published on a computer accessible to the user to thereby allow the user to select an offering and host the software application relating thereto on the identified server. A plurality of offerings may be created for any software application. The offerings may be organized into a plurality of catalogs of related software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Ciarlante, Orlando C. Montalvo-Huhn, Koah-Hsing Wang, Alan Rodgers, Steven Brand
  • Patent number: 6532488
    Abstract: The present invention allows users to host a software application on a server accessible to a plurality of users, the software application being simultaneously useable by the plurality of users. According to one embodiment, the method of the present invention comprises receiving a plurality of application kits for a plurality of software application and creating one or more offerings for each software application contained in an application kit. A user is allowed to select an offering from a plurality of published offerings, the offerings identifying one or more software applications, which is used to establish an instance of the software application identified in the selected offering on the server. The user specifies one or more invited users and sends a message to each of the one or more invited users to join the software application instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Inventors: John J. Ciarlante, Orlando C. Montalvo-Huhn, Koah-Hsing Wang, Alan Rodgers, Steven Brand