Patents by Inventor David B. Cohen

David B. Cohen 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: 8407075
    Abstract: A method, operable on a processing device, for merging calendar entries may include receiving a plurality of calendar entries each associated with entry identification data. The method may also include comparing by the processing device at least a portion of the entry identification data associated with each of the calendar entries. The method may additionally include merging, by the processing device, the calendar entries based at least in part on comparing of at least the portion of the entry identification data associated with each of the at least two calendar entries. The method may further include comparing at least one time attribute associated with each of the calendar entries and comparing at least one textual attribute associated with each of the calendar entries and basing merging the calendar entries additionally on comparing the time attributes and the textual attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Lance, David B. Cohen, Bruce A. Kahn, Gregory R. Klouda, Ram Krishnamurthy, Deborah E. Maurer, Frank A. Pavelski, Michelle Stoner
  • Publication number: 20110317523
    Abstract: A method, operable on a processing device, for merging calendar entries may include receiving a plurality of calendar entries each associated with entry identification data. The method may also include comparing by the processing device at least a portion of the entry identification data associated with each of the calendar entries. The method may additionally include merging, by the processing device, the calendar entries based at least in part on comparing of at least the portion of the entry identification data associated with each of the at least two calendar entries. The method may further include comparing at least one time attribute associated with each of the calendar entries and comparing at least one textual attribute associated with each of the calendar entries and basing merging the calendar entries additionally on comparing the time attributes and the textual attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: JOHN M. LANCE, DAVID B. COHEN, BRUCE A. KAHN, GREGORY R. KLOUDA, RAM KRISHNAMURTHY, DEBORAH E. MAURER, FRANK A. PAVELSKI, MICHELLE STONER
  • Patent number: 4203452
    Abstract: A diagnostic and remedial process is provided for improving the efficiency of education by determining when a subject is engaged in long-term learning, resulting in long-term memory by sensing, measuring, displaying, monitoring, recording and analyzing transitional evoked potentials reflecting the occurrence of learning and memory resulting from the chemoelectric reactions in the human brain associated with long-term learning, which produce different end products in respect to both chemical and electrical characteristics than reactions associated with short-term learning, and which are associated with the voltage component, only, of the electroencephalograph (EEG) signal generated by a subject during a learning situation during the diagnostic process an individual teacher/subject counseling arrangement utilizing biofeedback may be enacted in order to accomplish the remedial process of permitting the subject to control his autonomic nervous system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Inventor: David B. Cohen