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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1993
William E Good, Houston, TX (US);
Harold A Hildebrand, Houston, TX (US);
Cedric V Snyder, Jr, Houston, TX (US);
Joseph L Stiles, Bellaire, TX (US);
Kathleen M Whitfield, Katy, TX (US);
Marie S Jansen, Spring, TX (US);
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of communication in a computer system is provided for transferring information between multiple, concurrently operating programs, each of which may have a respective window display. The user communicates with each of the application programs through the window display as well as through an input device, such as a mouse or keyboard. A list of information codes is registered with a dispatcher program for each of the application programs which requires data. One or more of the application programs generate templates which include data and a corresponding information code. The generated templates are transmitted to the dispatcher program. The dispatcher program then compares the information code in the received template to the registered list of information codes to find any matches and thereby identify the one or more application programs which have registered to receive the information in the received template. The dispatcher program then transmits the received template to each of the identified application programs. Information communication is therefore carried out between multiple operating programs without user direction for the steps of the communication process.