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William L. Rich

IBM: 9 patents #11,918 of 70,183Top 20%
Overall (All Time): #589,815 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5896531 Method and system for managing environments with a data processing system Donald E. Curtis, W. Pettus Gewin, Thomas Mitchell, Michael Priven, Kathleen K. Tubbs 1999-04-20
5497491 System and method for importing and exporting data between an object oriented computing environment and an external computing environment Herman Mitchell, Floyd W. Shackelford 1996-03-05
5488721 System and method for applying visitor lock and persistent lock flags to control units of work boundaries in an object oriented environment Floyd W. Shackelford 1996-01-30
5437025 System and method for run time configuration of objects in an object oriented computing environment Richard C. Bale, Floyd W. Shackelford 1995-07-25
5410702 Slot objects for an object oriented programming system Robert L. Abraham, Richard E. Moore, Floyd W. Shackelford, John R. Tiller, Jr., Richard S. Briggs, Jr. 1995-04-25
5313629 Unit of work for preserving data integrity of a data-base by creating in memory a copy of all objects which are to be processed together Robert L. Abraham, Richard E. Moore, Floyd W. Shackelford, John R. Tiller, Jr., Cynthia A. Ross +1 more 1994-05-17
5291593 System for persistent and delayed allocation object reference in an object oriented environment Robert L. Abraham, Cynthia A. Ross, Richard E. Moore, Floyd W. Shackelford, John R. Tiller, Jr. +1 more 1994-03-01
5265206 System and method for implementing a messenger and object manager in an object oriented programming environment Floyd W. Shackelford, Cynthia A. Ross, Robert L. Abraham, John R. Tiller, Jr., Richard E. Moore +1 more 1993-11-23
5247669 Persistent data interface for an object oriented programming system Robert L. Abraham, Richard E. Moore, Floyd W. Shackelford, John R. Tiller, Jr., Richard S. Briggs, Jr. 1993-09-21