Patents by Inventor William P. Higgins

William P. Higgins 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).

  • Publication number: 20150172107
    Abstract: Techniques provide include analyzing a first node, associated with a first version of an service, to extract first configuration metadata; analyzing the first node, associated with a second version, subsequent to the first version, of the aservice, to extract second configuration metadata; determining, based upon a comparison of the first configuration metadata and the second configuration metadata, that the first node has not been modified between the first version and the second version; generating a first image of the node for distribution in conjunction with the service in response to the determining that the particular node has not been modified; and caching the first image for use in conjunction with the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles D. Brant, ChunHui Y. Higgins, William P. Higgins, John L. Ryding, III, Andrew N. Trossman
  • Publication number: 20150169307
    Abstract: Techniques provide include analyzing a first node, associated with a first version of an service, to extract first configuration metadata; analyzing the first node, associated with a second version, subsequent to the first version, of the aservice, to extract second configuration metadata; determining, based upon a comparison of the first configuration metadata and the second configuration metadata, that the first node has not been modified between the first version and the second version; generating a first image of the node for distribution in conjunction with the service in response to the determining that the particular node has not been modified; and caching the first image for use in conjunction with the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles D. Brant, ChunHui Y. Higgins, William P. Higgins, John L. Ryding, III, Andrew N. Trossman
  • Patent number: 8887241
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to access control and provide a method, system and computer program product for access control management for a composite application. In a first embodiment, a method for role-based access control management for a composite application can be provided. The method can include selecting a component for deployment in a composite application and parsing a security policy for the component to identify a mapping between a specific role for the component and a virtual role for the composite application. Binding logic can be generated from the security policy and the component can be deployed into the composite application. Finally, security access operations for the virtual role can be processed through method calls to operations defined in the binding logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kathryn H. Britton, Dieter Buehler, William P. Higgins, Yi-Hsiu H. Wei, Chunhui Yang
  • Publication number: 20140111028
    Abstract: A method, system or computer usable program product for controlling power emission from a socket to a plug including providing a first unit connected to the socket with full power emission disabled and a second unit connected to the plug, each unit with a signal generation capability, establishing a handshake protocol between the first and second units, and responsive to a successful handshake protocol between the first and second units, the first unit enabling full power emission from the socket to the plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: ChunHui Y. Higgins, William P. Higgins
  • Patent number: 8250585
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing the user interface (UI) state of an AJAX application by automatically binding a uniform resource locator (URL) to an application code component. The metadata for controller functions contained in an AJAX Web page are read as it is loaded. Once loaded, the URL of the page is monitored for changes in its value. If the URL's value changes, then the value of the ‘action’ property of the changed URL is compared to the application metadata for validation. If the ‘action’ property of the changed URL does not exist in the application metadata, then the changed URL is considered invalid and its associated actions are ignored. If the ‘action’ property is valid, the function specified by the ‘action’ request parameter is called. A single object parameter is sent, with the properties of the single object parameter derived from the request parameters other than ‘action’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William P. Higgins, Walter J. Staiger
  • Patent number: 8037484
    Abstract: A method of building compound extensible Asynchronous JavaScript And eXtensible Markup Language (AJAX) applications. A server-side web component utility searches an extension registry for Jazz web User Interface (UI) components and generates cached strings of JavaScript code based on the Jazz web UI components. When a browser accesses a Jazz web UI home page, the web component utility uses script tags to download the cached strings of JavaScript code. The web component utility executes the cached strings of JavaScript code and registers multiple available Jazz web UI components with an AJAX package management system. The web component utility serializes a subset of the extension registry that includes multiple extension points declared within the available Jazz web UI components. The Jazz web browser-based functionality downloads the extension registry subset data, parses the data, and makes the data available through one or more JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Backhouse, William P. Higgins
  • Publication number: 20090119675
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing the user interface (UI) state of an AJAX application by automatically binding a uniform resource locator (URL) to an application code component. The metadata for controller functions contained in an AJAX Web page are read as it is loaded. Once loaded, the URL of the page is monitored for changes in its value. If the URL's value changes, then the value of the ‘action’ property of the changed URL is compared to the application metadata for validation. If the ‘action’ property of the changed URL does not exist in the application metadata, then the changed URL is considered invalid and its associated actions are ignored. If the ‘action’ property is valid, the function specified by the ‘action’ request parameter is called. A single object parameter is sent, with the properties of the single object parameter derived from the request parameters other than ‘action’.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: William P. Higgins, Walter J. Staiger
  • Publication number: 20090013336
    Abstract: A method of building compound extensible Asynchronous JavaScript And eXtensible Markup Language (AJAX) applications. A server-side web component utility searches an extension registry for Jazz web User Interface (UI) components and generates cached strings of JavaScript code based on the Jazz web UI components. When a browser accesses a Jazz web UI home page, the web component utility uses script tags to download the cached strings of JavaScript code. The web component utility executes the cached strings of JavaScript code and registers multiple available Jazz web UI components with an AJAX package management system. The web component utility serializes a subset of the extension registry that includes multiple extension points declared within the available Jazz web UI components. The Jazz web browser-based functionality downloads the extension registry subset data, parses the data, and makes the data available through one or more JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: RICHARD A. BACKHOUSE, William P. Higgins