Patents by Inventor Timothy F. Rochford

Timothy F. Rochford 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).

  • Knowledge base management system
    Patent number: 5228116
    Abstract: An inference engine in a knowledge base system may be invoked by an application program (e.g., a COBOL program), by arranging to detect, in the program, instructions whose syntax complies with the syntax requirements of a predefined data base manipulation language (e.g., SQL), and then executing the instruction by invoking the inference engine. As a result, the application programmer can implicitly and transparently take full advantage of the facilities of the inference engine using simple, known data base manipulation language statements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Aicorp., Inc.
    Inventors: Larry R. Harris, Jeffrey M. Hill, Dayton Marcott, Timothy F. Rochford