Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Bridgman

Thomas E. Bridgman 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).

  • Patent number: 6523062
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for facilitating network delivery of Wireless Markup Language (WML) decks (or decks in similar notations) to memory-constrained client devices such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) devices, by applying a novel deck-reduction process to the decks, such that the decks are reduced by fragmentation into new decks of a manageable size. No loss of deck content occurs in this fragmentation process. The cards of the original deck are grouped into new sub-decks, where each sub-deck is no larger than a particular maximum deck size. When defining the new sub-decks, card adjacency is used along with commonality of event bindings and text strings, in order to regroup the cards in such a way as to reduce the size of the resulting sub-decks while minimizing the number of remote references generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Bridgman, David B. Lection, Ajamu A. Wesley
  • Publication number: 20020087655
    Abstract: An information system for a mobile user, includes a source of content information, a proxy server for accessing the source of content information, a wireless communications link coupled to the proxy server, and a mobile computing system coupled to the proxy server via the wireless communication link
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: THOMAS E. BRIDGMAN, PAUL BAO-LUO CHOU, LAWRENCE ISAAC LIEBERMAN, TE-KAI LIU, BRUCE DAVID LUCAS, RAKESH MOHAN, PAUL ANDREW MOSKOWITZ, JUNG-MU TANG