Patents by Inventor Arthur R. Francis
Arthur R. Francis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10778735Abstract: A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Patent number: 10657285Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Publication number: 20190334964Abstract: A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Patent number: 10432677Abstract: A computer network comprising a number of user devices and a preferences control module, in which the preferences control module receives user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receives data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and distinguishes a number of artifacts on the owner's social networking profile from other artifacts on the profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile. A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Patent number: 10419500Abstract: A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Publication number: 20190236308Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Patent number: 10325113Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Publication number: 20190179864Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visual display of tags and provide a method, system and computer program product for contributor characteristic based tag clouds. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag cloud generation method can include loading tags for resources in a social bookmarking system, determining a personal characteristic for each of the end users applying the tags to the resources, and rendering a tag cloud for the tags based upon the personal characteristic of the end users and not based upon the frequency of use of the tags alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis, Veronique L. Moses
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Patent number: 10210259Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visual display of tags and provide a method, system and computer program product for contributor characteristic based tag clouds. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag cloud generation method can include loading tags for resources in a social bookmarking system, determining a personal characteristic for each of the end users applying the tags to the resources, and rendering a tag cloud for the tags based upon the personal characteristic of the end users and not based upon the frequency of use of the tags alone.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis, Veronique L. Moses
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Publication number: 20170193248Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Patent number: 9679157Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Patent number: 9679158Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Patent number: 9501659Abstract: Various embodiments provide for inheriting social network information from a first user to one or more other users. In various examples, rule-based criteria (e.g., origination, update frequency, access, event occurrence and/or proficiency) are utilized for allowing a first user to bestow (e.g., transfer/share/delegate) social network information (e.g., authorization, access, contact(s), document(s), video(s), file(s), image(s), post(s), blog(s), content, rule(s) and/or control) to a second user.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Publication number: 20160196446Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Publication number: 20160196445Abstract: Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Arthur R. Francis, Eduardo A. Patrocinio
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Patent number: 8918458Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for utilizing statistics in a human-to-human collaborative tool is provided. A method for utilizing group statistics for a group participating in a collaborative session can include collecting group statistics including a percentage of the participants in the set having a particular availability status for a grouped set of participants designated to participate in a collaborative session provided by a human-to-human collaborative tool executing in a computer system, generating a display of the percentage of the participants in the set having the particular availability status, and rendering the generated display of the percentage of the participants in the set having the particular availability status in a user interface in association with a hierarchical listing of participants in the collaborative session.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis
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Publication number: 20140344887Abstract: Various embodiments provide for inheriting social network information from a first user to one or more other users. In various examples, rule-based criteria (e.g., origination, update frequency, access, event occurrence and/or proficiency) are utilized for allowing a first user to bestow (e.g., transfer/share/delegate) social network information (e.g., authorization, access, contact(s), document(s), video(s), file(s), image(s), post(s), blog(s), content, rule(s) and/or control) to a second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Publication number: 20140201283Abstract: A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Publication number: 20140201269Abstract: A computer network comprising a number of user devices and a preferences control module, in which the preferences control module receives user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receives data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and distinguishes a number of artifacts on the owner's social networking profile from other artifacts on the profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile. A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
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Publication number: 20110153768Abstract: Electronic meeting relevance alerts that include receiving, by a processing device, metadata related to an electronic meeting, comparing, by the processing device, the metadata with preferences of an attendee invited to the electronic meeting to determine a relevancy of the metadata to the attendee, and sending, by the processing device, a notification to the attendee responsive to the relevancy of the metadata to the attendee.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: BERNADETTE A. CARTER, ARTHUR R. FRANCIS