Patents by Inventor Tom Button

Tom Button 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).

  • Semantic functional wrappers of services
    Patent number: 11789726
    Abstract: Functional wrappers are scripts and related software that provide a way to group and invoke functionality comprising semantic intent in a legacy application. These functional wrappers allow programmatic access to functionality in legacy applications in contemporary software architectures without risk of porting errors. Additional functionality to provide features with presently expected, but not available at the time the legacy applications were developed, such as functional wrappers to provide parallelism and scaling, are disclosed. Finally, automatic generation of the functional wrappers are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Button, Federico Zoufaly
  • SEMANTIC FUNCTIONAL WRAPPERS OF SERVICES
    Publication number: 20210263736
    Abstract: Functional wrappers are scripts and related software that provide a way to group and invoke functionality comprising semantic intent in a legacy application. These functional wrappers allow programmatic access to functionality in legacy applications in contemporary software architectures without risk of porting errors. Additional functionality to provide features with presently expected, but not available at the time the legacy applications were developed, such as functional wrappers to provide parallelism and scaling, are disclosed. Finally, automatic generation of the functional wrappers are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Tom Button, Federico Zoufaly