Patents by Inventor Denise Bell
Denise Bell 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: 9628417Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products and systems for displaying a corrected time included in the text of an instant message. One or more processors determine that an instant message sent from a first user to a second user includes a first time and a first time zone corresponding to the first time and determine that the first time zone corresponding to the first time does not match a second time zone. The one or more processors convert the first time to a second time, wherein the second time is determined based, at least in part, on the first time, the first time zone, and the second time zone. The one or more processors cause the second time to be displayed to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, Sarah R. Plantenberg
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Publication number: 20170004123Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating an overlay layer on a user interface. Annotation of the user interface may be enabled via the overlay layer associated with a defect. A screenshot of the overlay layer on the user interface may be captured, wherein the screenshot, when an annotation is present, may include the annotation. Information associated with the screenshot may be transferred to a code tracking tool to display a change request for the defect.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, David J. Levinson, Randa Salem
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Publication number: 20160364499Abstract: A device for providing spatially-oriented traversal animations during web navigation. The device is configured to perform operations that include receiving a destination Internet address for a destination web page into a graphical web browser that is displaying a current web page having a current Internet address on an electronic display. The operations can further include determining, via electronic analysis of the destination Internet address and the current Internet address, a relationship between the destination Internet address and the current Internet address. The operations can further include determining a spatially-oriented traversal animation based on the relationship. The spatially-oriented traversal animation is from a plurality of different types of animations associated with different hierarchical relationships between Internet pages within the Internet domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Christopher S. Alkov, Denise A. Bell, Brian Farrell, Travis M. Grigsby, Jana H. Jenkins
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Publication number: 20160336026Abstract: In a computer system for navigating to a location in recorded content, a computer receives a descriptive term or phrase associated with a searchable tag. The searchable tag corresponds to a point-in-time at which a non-speech sound occurred during the recording of recorded content of a communication between a plurality of participants. The recorded content includes speech from one or more of the plurality of participants, the descriptive term includes an automatically generated phonetic translation of the non-speech sound, and the non-speech sound was transmitted to the plurality of participants during the recording. The computer navigates to a location in the recorded content corresponding to the point-in-time at which the non-speech sound occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: DENISE A. BELL, LISA SEACAT DELUCA, JANA H. JENKINS, JEFFREY A. KUSNITZ
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Publication number: 20160330312Abstract: An approach, carried out by one or more processors, for providing volume information to communication devices. The approach may include receiving an indication from a first communication device of a first user to send volume information to other communication devices in a vicinity. The approach may further include determining a second communication device of a second user is in the vicinity of the first communication device and subsequently determining a first set of volume information for the second communication device based on at least a first location of the first communication device, where the first set of volume information includes a volume range for the second user to audibly communicate where the first user will not hear the second user. The approach may further include sending first set of volume information to the second communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
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Patent number: 9473895Abstract: An approach, carried out by one or more processors, for providing volume information to communication devices. The approach may further comprise receiving a query for a set of volume information for a first communication device. The volume information includes at least a volume range for audible communicating. The approach may further comprise determining if a second communication device is in a vicinity of the first communication device. Responsive to determining the second communication device is in the vicinity of the first communication device, the approach may further comprise determining a first location and a second location for the respective first communication device and second communication device. The approach may further comprise determining the set of volume information for the first communication device based on at least the second location of the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
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Patent number: 9472209Abstract: In a method for deep tagging a recording, a computer records audio comprising speech from one or more people. The computer detects a non-speech sound within the audio. The computer determines that the non-speech sound corresponds to a type of sound, and in response, associates a descriptive term with a time of occurrence of the non-speech sound within the recorded audio to form a searchable tag. The computer stores the searchable tag as metadata of the recorded audio.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
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Publication number: 20160283598Abstract: In a method for identifying and highlighting terms on a web page, loading, by one or more processors, a web page. Receiving, by one or more processors, a search term. Searching, by one or more processors, the loaded web page for the search term. Determining, by one or more processors, that the search term does not exist on the loaded web page. Determining, by one or more processors, that metadata of the loaded web page contains the search term. Rendering, by one or more processors, the web page such that the search term exists on the rendered web page. Highlighting, by one or more processors, the search term on the rendered web page.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, Sarah R. Plantenberg
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Patent number: 9430118Abstract: Embodiments include a method that includes receiving a destination Internet address for a destination web page into a graphical web browser that is displaying a current web page having a current Internet address on a display. The method includes determining a relationship between the destination Internet address and the current Internet address. The relationship is determined by determining differences between the current Internet address and the destination Internet address. The method also includes determining a spatially-oriented traversal animation based, at least in part, on the relationship between the destination Internet address and the current Internet address. The method includes animating bringing the destination web page onto the display using the spatially-oriented traversal animation. The method also includes displaying the destination web page after the spatially-oriented traversal animation.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher S. Alkov, Denise A. Bell, Brian Farrell, Travis M. Grigsby, Jana H. Jenkins
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Patent number: 9430633Abstract: When visual focus on a mobile device is limited, aural cues can be used to aid in entering a pattern based access code. The mobile device displays a plurality of positions from which an access code for accessing a mobile device can be selected. Indications of a set of positions of the plurality of positions in a sequence are received. The sequence of the set of the positions form an access code. For at least the first of the set of positions, an aural cue associated with the first position is determined, and the aural cue is emitted to indicate the first position based on the aural cue. It is determined whether the access code is correct. Access to the mobile device is allowed if the access code is correct.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Trevor Livingston
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Patent number: 9390607Abstract: An approach is provided in which a smart device identifies a crime risk based upon proximity parameters corresponding to the current location of the smart device. In turn, the smart device determines whether to alert a user of the smart device based upon user preferences and, in turn, alerts the user accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, Sarah R. Plantenberg
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Publication number: 20160171007Abstract: A system and method for enhancing a lazy loading operation is disclosed. The system and method, in general, retrieves a plurality of subsets of a dataset via the lazy loading operation and increments a counter for each of the plurality of subsets retrieved by the processor. Then, the system and method detects a first event that navigates away from the retrieving of the plurality of subsets and also detects a second event that navigates back to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets. Next, the system and method returns to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets in accordance with the counter in response to the detecting of the second event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat Deluca, David J. Levinson, Randa Salem
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Publication number: 20160170944Abstract: A system and method for enhancing a lazy loading operation is disclosed. The system and method, in general, retrieves a plurality of subsets of a dataset via the lazy loading operation and increments a counter for each of the plurality of subsets retrieved by the processor. Then, the system and method detects a first event that navigates away from the retrieving of the plurality of subsets and also detects a second event that navigates back to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets. Next, the system and method returns to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets in accordance with the counter in response to the detecting of the second event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat Deluca, David J. Levinson, Randa Salem
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Publication number: 20160118063Abstract: In a method for deep tagging a recording, a computer records audio comprising speech from one or more people. The computer detects a non-speech sound within the audio. The computer determines that the non-speech sound corresponds to a type of sound, and in response, associates a descriptive term with a time of occurrence of the non-speech sound within the recorded audio to form a searchable tag. The computer stores the searchable tag as metadata of the recorded audio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2016Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
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Publication number: 20160119754Abstract: An approach, carried out by one or more processors, for providing volume information to communication devices. The approach may further comprise receiving a query for a set of volume information for a first communication device. The volume information includes at least a volume range for audible communicating. The approach may further comprise determining if a second communication device is in a vicinity of the first communication device. Responsive to determining the second communication device is in the vicinity of the first communication device, the approach may further comprise determining a first location and a second location for the respective first communication device and second communication device. The approach may further comprise determining the set of volume information for the first communication device based on at least the second location of the second communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2016Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
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Publication number: 20160110898Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to manage and visualize email content using metadata tags. In an embodiment, the method comprises a computing device receiving an email message that is addressed to a recipient and includes a metadata tag; associating the metadata tag with a predefined category and/or subcategory; transmitting a predefined category and/or subcategory to be displayed using at least a pie chart icon that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory associated with a metadata tag, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received that have a metadata tag associated with the sector; and generating an object associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein in response to a user interacting with the object an action is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2016Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins
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Patent number: 9313283Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for performing a dynamic social content selection. According to an embodiment, a method may include determining, via one or more computing devices, a plurality of status indicators available to be associated with social content associated with a first user. The method may also include defining one or more rules for the plurality of status indicators based on, at least in part, a recipient characteristic. The method may further include selecting one of the plurality of status indicators to associate with the content for a second user based on the one or more rules. The method may further include providing the content and the selected one of the plurality of status indicators to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey Alan Kusnitz
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Patent number: 9313285Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for performing a dynamic social content selection. According to an embodiment, a method may include determining, via one or more computing devices, a plurality of status indicators available to be associated with social content associated with a first user. The method may also include defining one or more rules for the plurality of status indicators based on, at least in part, a recipient characteristic. The method may further include selecting one of the plurality of status indicators to associate with the content for a second user based on the one or more rules. The method may further include providing the content and the selected one of the plurality of status indicators to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey Alan Kusnitz
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Patent number: 9282434Abstract: An approach, carried out by one or more processors, for providing volume information to communication devices. The approach may further comprise receiving a query for a set of volume information for a first communication device. The volume information includes at least a volume range for audible communicating. The approach may further comprise determining if a second communication device is in a vicinity of the first communication device. Responsive to determining the second communication device is in the vicinity of the first communication device, the approach may further comprise determining a first location and a second location for the respective first communication device and second communication device. The approach may further comprise determining the set of volume information for the first communication device based on at least the second location of the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
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Patent number: 9275066Abstract: The computer manages media content by receiving, at a first memory storage location, a first file having one or more associated properties. The computer identifies a second file, at a second memory storage location, having one or more associated properties that are substantially similar to the first file. The computer compares the one or more properties of the first file to the one or more properties of the second file. The computer determines whether to replace the first file with the second file, based on the comparison of the one or more properties of the first file to the one or more properties of the second file. Responsive to determining to replace the first file with the second file, the computer stores at the first memory storage location a link to the second memory storage location.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise A. Bell, Pamela F. Geiger, Leah A. Lawrence, Irgelkha D. Mejia