Patents by Inventor Vince Singleton

Vince Singleton 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).

  • Object linking and embedding over a computer network
    Patent number: 6202100
    Abstract: A user at computer A submits material from an application APPN A onto the clipboard at that machine. A routine CLIP SEND, part of conferencing software P2P-A at computer A obtains a list of available formats for the material on the clipboard, and transmits this list to a second machine, computer B. This list is received by conferencing software P2P-B at computer B, and a routine CLIP RECEIVE, part of P2P-B, submits the list to the clipboard at that machine. The user at machine B can then embed an object originally from APPN A by OLE pasting into an application at computer B, APPN B. in the normal manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Maltby, Simon Phipps, Vince Singleton
  • Compression and decompression of runs of ones and zeros in groups that progressively increase in size within each run
    Patent number: 5764167
    Abstract: In system and method for data compression and decompression, runs of the same bit value are identified within the data to be compressed and decompressed into a series of groups of bits wherein the number of bits in each group progressively increases as compared to the preceding groups until all of the bits of the run can be represented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Stuart Adams, Benedict Daniel Gladwyn, Simon Phipps, Vince Singleton