William Edwar Shannon DeceasedCleves, OH

6826759, Nov 30, 2004

Apr 1, 1997

08/831845

Bartley H. Calder - Los Gatos CA
William A. Shannon - Los Altos CA
John Mani - Cupertino CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06F 946

719328, 719315, 719316, 719320

Methods, software, and apparatus for transparently pairing data with a command object, with respect to the application which wishes to present the data, are disclosed. In one aspect of the present invention, a computer-implemented framework for associating data with a command object includes a data handler mechanism arranged to interface with an application which wishes to use the data. The framework also includes a data retriever mechanism that is arranged to obtain the data, and is in communication with the data handler mechanism, as well as a mapping mechanism, which is also in communication with the data handler mechanism, and is arranged to obtain the command object. In one embodiment of the present invention, the data is a stream of bytes, and the data handler mechanism is used to bind the stream of bytes to the command object.

7089317, Aug 8, 2006

Mar 25, 2002

10/106680

Thulasiraman Jeyaraman - San Jose CA, US
Mark William Hapner - San Jose CA, US
William A. Shannon - Los Altos CA, US
Kenneth David Saks - Mountain View CA, US
Kathleen A. Stout - Andover MA, US
Rahul Sharma - San Jose CA, US
Qingqing Ouyang - San Jose CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

709230, 709203, 719315

A method, apparatus, and system for providing a standard, generic contract between an application server and a message provider which allows the message provider to deliver messages to message endpoints (each of which is associated with a corresponding message application) residing in the application server is disclosed. By generic, it is meant that the contract is independent of the specific messaging style, messaging semantics and messaging infrastructure used to deliver messages. In this way, the contract also serves as the standard message provider pluggability contract that allows any message provider to be plugged into any application server via an associated resource adapter.

2001001, Aug 9, 2001

Jan 10, 2001

09/756762

Hiroshi Watanabe - Campbell CA, US
William Shannon - Los Altos CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F009/44

717/001000

A development suite for developing and testing internationalized software includes, in addition to an ASCII English locale, a multibyte English locale. The presence of a multibyte English locale permits early discovery and correction of errors by English speaking developers which would otherwise only be found during localization of the software for a country where a multibyte representation was required. A system and a computer program product also utilize a multibyte English locale.

2003018, Sep 25, 2003

Sep 30, 2002

10/262645

Mark Hapner - San Jose CA, US
William Shannon - Los Altos CA, US
Thulasiraman Jeyaraman - San Jose CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

G06F015/173

709/226000

A method, apparatus and system arranged to provide a connection(s) from an application component to a shared resource only as needed. In this way the total number of connections are limited to only those connections required to execute a particular method thereby saving valuable computing resources. In the described embodiment, after an invoked application component has started a particular transaction, a pre-enlistment notification is returned to the application server thereby putting all resource adapters on notice that a connection may be forthcoming.

5774551, Jun 30, 1998

Aug 7, 1995

8/499487

Tajen R. Wu - Fremont CA
William A. Shannon - Los Altos CA
Paul Fronberg - Redwood City CA
Donald R. Stephenson - Pleasanton CA
Vipin Samar - Cupertino CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

H04L 932

380 25

A system and method provide transparent access from any system entry service to multiple account management services, and particularly to multiple authentication services on a computer system, supporting unified login and logout. Transparency between system entry services and account management services, including authentication, password, account, and session services, is provided by an application programming interface and a configuration file. The configuration file stores associations between system entry services, and selected account management services, and allows an individual system entry service to be associated with multiple different ones of a given type of account management service, such as authentication services. The application programming interface determines dynamically in response to a request by a system entry service for an account management operation, such as authentication of a user, which account management service is associated with the system entry service by reading the configuration file and queuing pathnames stored therein of the account management services associated with the system entry service currently connecting user to the system. The application programming interface then invokes the queued pathnames for the desired operation.

5845325, Dec 1, 1998

Apr 13, 1993

8/046476

William Van Loo - Palo Alto CA
John Watkins - Sunnyvale CA
Robert Garner - San Jose CA
William Joy - Palo Alto CA
Joseph Moran - Santa Clara CA
William Shannon - Los Altos CA
Ray Cheng - Cupertino CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 1516
G06F 1208

711135

Hardware and software improvements in workstations which utilize virtual addressing in multi-user operating systems with write back caches, including operating systems which allow each user to have multiple active processes. In virtual addressing, multi-user workstations, system performance may be improved significantly by including a virtual address write back cache as one of the system elements. Data protection and the reassignment of virtual addresses are supported within such a system as well. Multiple active processes, each with its own virtual address space, and an operating system shared by those processes in a manner which is invisible to user programs. Cache "Flush" logic is used to remove selected blocks from the virtual cache when virtual addresses are to be reassigned.

6185729, Feb 6, 2001

Mar 4, 1996

8/610004

Hiroshi Watanabe - Campbell CA
William A. Shannon - Los Altos CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 945

717 1

A development suite for developing and testing internationalized software includes, in addition to an ASCII English locale, a multibyte English locale. The presence of a multibyte English locale permits early discovery and correction of errors by English speaking developers which would otherwise only be found during localization of the software for a country where a multibyte representation was required. A system and a computer program product also utilize a multibyte English locale.

6175364, Jan 16, 2001

Apr 1, 1997

8/831846

Hinkmond B. Wong - Redwood City CA
George Tharakan - Sunnyvale CA
Bartley H. Calder - Los Gatos CA
William A. Shannon - Los Altos CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F 1300

345340

Methods, software and data structures for installing a component in a container suitable for display on a display screen as part of a graphical user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a name and desired location for a component are provided. Both the desired component and a component object table that is to be associated with the component are then created. The component object table is arranged to identify both the location and identity of the component. The component object table is then referenced in a container lookup table arranged to associate the component object table with a container at the desired location. In a preferred embodiment, the container is a sliding panel associated with a window suitable for display on the monitor. The sliding panel is capable of supporting a plurality of handles that act as independent sub-containers. The component object table includes a location identifier that identifies an edge of the window that the sliding panel is associated with, and a handle index indicative of a particular handle within the sliding panel.