George Lee Havens

Title: George Lee Havens and His Patent for Extensible Object Classes.

Introduction

George Lee Havens is an inventor associated with Louisburg, North Carolina, and International Business Machines Corporation. His patent work addresses how software can support user-created object classes without requiring changes to a program’s original code.

Latest Patents

The supplied information identifies one patent for Havens: “Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Generating and …”. The described system allows user-created object classes to be generated after build time without modifying or recompiling program code. It uses unique class identifiers and selector identifiers, along with a registration table that distinguishes vendor-defined classes from user-created classes. When creating objects, the system searches the user-class portion of the table before the vendor-class portion, and it validates objects by checking the relevant subclass table.

Career Highlights

Havens is associated with International Business Machines Corporation, commonly known as IBM. His patent describes a way to extend object-oriented software environments while preserving the existing program code.

Collaborations

The supplied information names Jay Douglas Stouffer and Meredith Smith Vaughan as Havens’s coworkers. Their shared association with IBM provides context for his professional environment, though no specific joint patent work is identified here.

Conclusion

George Lee Havens’s identified patent focuses on enabling user-created object classes to work within an existing software environment without requiring recompilation.