Patents by Inventor William D Devlin

William D Devlin 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).

  • Catalog management system architecture having data table objects and logic table objects
    Patent number: 6917933
    Abstract: An abstraction layer in a catalog management system for accessing system configuration information. The catalog management system presents the configuration information that is stored in a datastore to a computer process by storing the information in cache memory so that the datastore is encapsulated from the caller. The request for the configuration information may be both location independent and type independent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Craig, William D Devlin