Patents by Inventor Thomas Jay Allen

Thomas Jay Allen 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).

  • Cross-environment context-sensitive help files
    Patent number: 7886227
    Abstract: A method for providing context-sensitive help across variable environments. In each of the variable environments, the method can include tokenizing a received network request for help, the tokenization producing a contextually pertinent help file name and a base address of a corresponding help file. Subsequently, the corresponding help file can be located in a fixed storage location referenced by associating the help file name with the base address. Finally, the located help file can be encoded with the base address, and transmitting to a requesting client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Radhika Aggarwal, Thomas Jay Allen, Brian J. Cragun, William H. Krebs, Jr., Clifton M. Nock, Elizabeth A. Schreiber, David B. Styles
  • Data sharing between application environments
    Patent number: 6785891
    Abstract: A method and program for dynamically sharing data between application environments such that the data persists beyond the termination of a data-providing application environment. In one embodiment of the invention, each of a plurality of HTML pages having respective applets are sequentially loaded within a visible frame store and retrieve data from an HTML page within a hidden frame. In this manner, the data produced by an applet persists beyond the termination of an HTML page providing the applet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Jay Allen, Christopher Mark Seyer
  • Cross-environment context-sensitive help files
    Publication number: 20030122859
    Abstract: A method for providing context-sensitive help across variable environments. In each of the variable environments, the method can include tokenizing a received network request for help, the tokenization producing a contextually pertinent help file name and a base address of a corresponding help file. Subsequently, the corresponding help file can be located in a fixed storage location referenced by associating the help file name with the base address. Finally, the located help file can be encoded with the base address, and transmitting to a requesting client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Radhika Aggarwal, Thomas Jay Allen, Brian J. Cragun, William H. Krebs, Clifton M. Nock, Elizabeth A. Schreiber, David B. Styles