Christopher J Robbins

US Patent:

8056018, Nov 8, 2011

Filed:

Mar 20, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/688320

Inventors:

Anthony Wayne Erwin - Rochester MN, US
Timothy Charles Mossing - Rochester MN, US
Christopher A. Robbins - New York NY, US
Brian Owen Wood - Byron MN, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715847, 715760, 715827

Abstract:

Conflict resolution of web application keyboard shortcuts implementation includes a web application being loaded in a web browser and application keyboard shortcuts for the web application are registered with the web browser. The web browser identifies application keyboard shortcuts for the web application that conflict with keyboard shortcuts for the web browser. Then the web browser resolves each conflict.

US Patent:

20040133893, Jul 8, 2004

Filed:

Jan 8, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/338214

Inventors:

Nicholas Carbone - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Gary Dexter - Kingston NY, US
Christopher Robbins - New York NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F009/46

US Classification:

718/107000, 718/100000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for managing environment variables of a user process in an information handling system having a plurality of simultaneously running threads of execution. Thread-level set and get functions invoked by a subject thread are defined to manage environment variables of the subject thread at the thread level rather than at the process level. In response to a request to set the value of a thread-level environment variable, a thread-level set function determines whether a thread-specific environment has already been created for the subject thread. If so, the set function inserts the thread-level environment variable in the thread-specific environment. Otherwise, the set function creates a thread-specific environment and inserts the thread-level environment variable in the newly created thread-specific environment. In response to a request to obtain the value of a thread-level environment variable, a thread-level get function determines whether a thread-level environment variable has been defined for the subject thread. If so, the get function returns the thread-level environment variable. Otherwise, the get function returns the corresponding process-level environment variable. The thread-level environment created for a subject thread is destroyed when subject thread is terminated.