Patents by Inventor Darren J. Sullivan

Darren J. Sullivan 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).

  • Patent number: 10929603
    Abstract: An aspect of auto-completion of text entered by a user includes configurable data collection components that collect from software applications text data and metadata representing an initial state of each of the applications and text data and metadata representing changes to the state of one or more of the applications. A central text matching component receives and stores the text data and metadata. A sending component sends text entered by the user in a text-entry field and any metadata associated with it to the central text matching component. A comparison component compares the entered text and associated metadata to the stored text data and metadata and locates matching text strings. A weighted ordering component ranks the matching text strings using the metadata and its configuration settings. A completion component completes the entered text at the text-entry field based on a selection of one of the located matching text strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Peter J. Cullen, John W. Duffell, Darren J. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10268561
    Abstract: Errors are predicted in a user interface interaction. User interactions in a user interaction session are recorded. The user interactions form a recorded user interaction pattern. The recorded user interaction pattern is checked for a similar match against a set of error patterns, in which each error pattern is an historical user interaction pattern associated with an historical error status. A user is notified that the recorded user interaction pattern is an error risk, based on the recorded user interaction pattern being similar to an error pattern that has generated an historical error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Darren J. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20180267953
    Abstract: An aspect of auto-completion of text entered by a user includes configurable data collection components that collect from software applications text data and metadata representing an initial state of each of the applications and text data and metadata representing changes to the state of one or more of the applications. A central text matching component receives and stores the text data and metadata. A sending component sends text entered by the user in a text-entry field and any metadata associated with it to the central text matching component. A comparison component compares the entered text and associated metadata to the stored text data and metadata and locates matching text strings. A weighted ordering component ranks the matching text strings using the metadata and its configuration settings. A completion component completes the entered text at the text-entry field based on a selection of one of the located matching text strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Peter J. Cullen, John W. Duffell, Darren J. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10031907
    Abstract: An aspect of auto-completion of text entered by a user includes configurable data collection components that collect from software applications text data and metadata representing an initial state of each of the applications and text data and metadata representing changes to the state of one or more of the applications. A central text matching component receives and stores the text data and metadata. A sending component sends text entered by the user in a text-entry field and any metadata associated with it to the central text matching component. A comparison component compares the entered text and associated metadata to the stored text data and metadata and locates matching text strings. A weighted ordering component ranks the matching text strings using the metadata and its configuration settings. A completion component completes the entered text at the text-entry field based on a selection of one of the located matching text strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Peter J. Cullen, John W. Duffell, Darren J. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9761276
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a request to create a clip of a media file, wherein the request specifies a time duration for the clip, computing a metric value for each of a plurality of segments of the media file, identifying, based on the plurality of metric values, a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media file, wherein the metric value for the first segment of the media file exceeds a threshold metric value, and generating the clip of the media file, wherein the clip of the media file includes at least the first segment of the media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Darren J. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170242740
    Abstract: Errors are predicted in a user interface interaction. User interactions in a user interaction session are recorded. The user interactions form a recorded user interaction pattern. The recorded user interaction pattern is checked for a similar match against a set of error patterns, in which each error pattern is an historical user interaction pattern associated with an historical error status. A user is notified that the recorded user interaction pattern is an error risk, based on the recorded user interaction pattern being similar to an error pattern that has generated an historical error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Darren J. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20160026639
    Abstract: An aspect of auto-completion of text entered by a user includes configurable data collection components that collect from software applications text data and metadata representing an initial state of each of the applications and text data and metadata representing changes to the state of one or more of the applications. A central text matching component receives and stores the text data and metadata. A sending component sends text entered by the user in a text-entry field and any metadata associated with it to the central text matching component. A comparison component compares the entered text and associated metadata to the stored text data and metadata and locates matching text strings. A weighted ordering component ranks the matching text strings using the metadata and its configuration settings. A completion component completes the entered text at the text-entry field based on a selection of one of the located matching text strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: David R. Bell, Peter J. Cullen, John W. Duffell, Darren J. Sullivan