Paul C Castro

US Patent:

6840665, Jan 11, 2005

Filed:

Jul 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/193966

Inventors:

Paul John Castro - Santa Monica CA, US

International Classification:

A44C 500

US Classification:

368281, 368 80, 368283

Abstract:

A balance watch, a combination of two watches, one measuring hours, the other measuring minutes and/or seconds. Each watch is worn on a separate wrist simultaneously.

US Patent:

6910429, Jun 28, 2005

Filed:

Dec 5, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/310355

Inventors:

Will J. Matay - San Gabriel CA, US
Paul R. Castro - Pomona CA, US

International Classification:

A47B023/00

US Classification:

108 44, 108152

Abstract:

An accessory tray () for attachment to a solid surface is described that is used to hold tools, materials and accessories in a convenient location for mechanics or other types of workers. The accessory tray incorporates a support tray () having an item holding area () on the upper side. A raised perimeter wall (and ) peripherally surrounds the support tray, for maintaining the tools, materials and accessories within the item holding area. A clamping attachment assembly () is rotatably attached to the support tray with a locking device defined as a swivel joint assembly () allowing the tray to be positioned in a horizontal plane relative to the clamping attachment assembly when the clamping attachment assembly is affixed to a rigid object within a specific workplace.

US Patent:

7487142, Feb 3, 2009

Filed:

Jun 10, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/865058

Inventors:

Norman Howard Cohen - Suffern NY, US
Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707 3, 707 2, 707 4, 707 5, 707 6, 707100

Abstract:

Improved descriptive query techniques are provided. More particularly, techniques are provided for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data providers grouped into provider kinds with hierarchical containment relationships. The query may include arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on the values of attributes of the data providers.

US Patent:

7487158, Feb 3, 2009

Filed:

Feb 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/048671

Inventors:

Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 10, 707 5, 707 9, 707201, 709217

Abstract:

A method for dynamically setting up collaborative associations between a group of users, computing resources, and/or communication devices, where the constituents of the collaborative association are chosen based on a variety of contextual criteria. The dynamic collaboration enabler component determines the explicit identities of the parties that should be a part of the collaboration. The group of individual entities involved in the collaboration can change dynamically during the lifetime of the collaboration, based on appropriate changes in the contextual data. Such contextual data refers to both state variables associated with the collaboration software or infrastructure itself, or to the state of entities external to the collaboration. The duration of the collaborative association is specified either explicitly or through a set of context related conditions. The dynamic context enabler can detect when the set of termination conditions is satisfied and then automatically remove the collaborative association.

US Patent:

7487191, Feb 3, 2009

Filed:

Jun 10, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/150072

Inventors:

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Frederique A. Giraud - Ossining NY, US
Ravindranath Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
Apratim Purakayastha - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Danny L. Yeh - Irvington NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707204, 707100, 707101, 707102, 707 10, 709248, 709205, 700 29

Abstract:

Techniques for replicating data in a system having a data tier with a plurality of data sources and an application tier with a plurality of applications are provided. Such techniques can include creating an instance of an information model of the data that is specified by a schema. The model can be created in a form that is suitable for manipulation by at least one of the applications and that forms at least a portion of a model tier that is intermediate the data tier and the application tier. A replica of an instance of the information model can be created in a form suitable for remote transmission, and a consistency policy can be obtained that specifies a level of consistency required between the instance of the information model and the replica.

US Patent:

7496585, Feb 24, 2009

Filed:

Apr 23, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/830794

Inventors:

Marion Lee Blount - Mahopac NY, US
Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Norman Howard Cohen - Suffern NY, US
Maria Rene Ebling - White Plains NY, US
Barry Leiba - Cortlandt Manor NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US
Apratim Purakayastha - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Wolfgang H. Segmuller - Valhalla NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707101, 707 2

Abstract:

Improved discovery techniques are provided. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for making providers of a particular kind of data available to an application program includes the following steps/operations. The technique discovers whether one or more data providers are capable of providing the particular kind of data, wherein a discovered data provider is either a connected data provider or a virtual data provider. When a data provider capable of providing the particular kind of data is discovered and the discovered data provider is a virtual data provider, the technique instantiates the virtual data provider. When a data provider capable of providing the particular kind of data is discovered, the technique makes a data-provider handle for the discovered data provider available to the application program, with a common interface.

US Patent:

7543000, Jun 2, 2009

Filed:

Jan 23, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/337393

Inventors:

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Ravindranath Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
Avraham Leff - New Hempstead NY, US
James T. Rayfield - Ridgefield CT, US
Danny L. Yeh - Irvington NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 12/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707201

Abstract:

A system, method and computer program product for synchronizing replicas of shared data structures associated with one or more computer systems. The method comprises: evaluating a metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on a first computer system according to a first synchronization method; evaluating the metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on the first computer system according to a second synchronization method; and, selecting, at synchronization time, based on the evaluated metric, whether to use the first or second synchronization methods, and communicating a command to a second computer system to replicate a shared data structure based on the selected synchronization method.

US Patent:

7721139, May 18, 2010

Filed:

Mar 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/691792

Inventors:

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Frederique A. Giraud - Ossining NY, US
Ravi Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
John J. Ponzo - Hawthorne NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 4, 709202

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing data in a browser-based application. The application is opened in the browser, and a subset of the application is arbitrarily specified as data. Different versions of the subset of the application specified as data are caused to persist so that they may be recovered later. Persistence and recovery of the subset of the application specified as data are performed in a manner transparent to the application.