Patents by Inventor W. Kevin Wilkinson

W. Kevin Wilkinson 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: 8656269
    Abstract: To implement at least one functionality, a template having one or more logic components corresponding to the at least one functionality is provided. The template and a data collection are accessed to load the one or more logic components and data into a closure document. The closure document is provided to enable updating of data in the closure document using the one or more logic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kei Yuasa, Kannan Govindarajan, Harumi A. Kuno, Kevin L. Smathers, W. Kevin Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 5261069
    Abstract: A method of maintaining the consistency of cached data in a client-server database system. Three new locks--a cache lock, a pending lock and an out-of-date lock--are added to a two-lock concurrency control system. A new long-running envelope transaction holds a cache lock on each object cached by a given client. A working transaction of the client works only with the cached object until commit time. If a second client's working transaction acquires an "X" lock on the object the cache lock is changed to a pending lock; if the transaction thereafter commits the pending lock is changed to an out-of-date lock. If the first client's working transaction thereafter attempts to commit, it waits for a pending lock to change; it aborts if it encounters an out-of-date lock; and otherwise it commits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: W. Kevin Wilkinson, Marie-Anne Neimat