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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:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
May. 01, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
William J Johnson, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Robert S Keller, Grapevine, TX (US);
George C Manthuruthil, Coppell, TX (US);
Marvin L Williams, Lewisville, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395600 ; 39520003 ; 3642844 ; 3642824 ; 3642865 ; 3649746 ; 364D / ; 364D / ;
Abstract
Method of, and apparatus for, providing a group query. An Interrogator Process provides an interface to a requesting user and formulates appropriate queries. Queries may be of the form of a single user query, a multiple user query, a group query, or a physical area query. A group is a collection of users who share a common characteristic. This common characteristic may be the same department, the same surname, the same job title, using the same device, executing the same process or application, etc.