Patents by Inventor Douglas W. Conmy

Douglas W. Conmy 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: 8677275
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. Moody, Cynthia L. Ice, Douglas W. Conmy, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Judi L. Coppinger, Francis D. Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 8352554
    Abstract: A method and computer program product for defining an activity. One or more members of the activity are defined. At least one piece of content is associated with the activity, thus defining at least one associated piece of content that is accessible by at least a portion of the members of the activity. Associating at least one piece of content with the activity includes determining if the at least one piece of content is from a private source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel A. Estrada, Douglas W. Conmy, Christoph Josef Luecking, Scott H. Prager
  • Publication number: 20110113375
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. MOODY, Cynthia L. Ice, Douglas W. Conmy, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Jodi L. Coppinger, Francis D. Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 7900160
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. Moody, Cynthia L. Ice, Douglas W. Conmy, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Jodi L. Coppinger, Francis D. Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 7836140
    Abstract: A method for managing invitations to one or more events includes identifying an attribute required to perform an event. An invitation may be created so that invitees are selected according to the identified attribute required to perform the event. At least one person associated with a attribute may then be invited to attend the event. An invitation is sent to one or more persons associated with the attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas W Conmy, Stephen D Eaton, Oltea M Herescu, Adeel Omer
  • Publication number: 20090300113
    Abstract: A method for managing invitations to one or more events includes identifying an attribute required to perform an event. An invitation may be created so that invitees are selected according to the identified attribute required to perform the event. At least one person associated with a attribute may then be invited to attend the event. An invitation is sent to one or more persons associated with the attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines
    Inventors: Douglas W. Conmy, Stephen D. Eaton, Oltea M. Herescu, Adeel Omer
  • Publication number: 20080301245
    Abstract: A method and computer program product for defining an activity. One or more members of the activity are defined. At least one piece of content is associated with the activity, thus defining at least one associated piece of content that is accessible by at least a portion of the members of the activity. Associating at least one piece of content with the activity includes determining if the at least one piece of content is from a private source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel A. Estrada, Douglas W. Conmy, Christoph Josef Luecking, Scott H. Prager
  • Patent number: 6990578
    Abstract: When electronic mail is to be sent by an off-line user to a recipient who holds a digital certificate, the sender's mail program allows the sender to compose the mail, but the mail is placed in plain text in the sender's local outbox and flagged for subsequent encryption. When the sender later connects to a mail server to send the outgoing mail, the sender's mail software, in response to the flagged mail will request the recipient's certificate from the server and use the received certificate to encrypt the mail message before it leaves the sender's workstation. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, after using a digital certificate to encrypt a mail message, the certificate is discarded. In accordance with another embodiment, if the certificate is not available or located by the mail server, a message is sent to the sender informing him that the certificate cannot be located and the mail cannot be sent in encrypted form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Michael R. O'Brien, Steven R. Beckhardt, Elizabeth A. Lorenson, Douglas W. Conmy
  • Publication number: 20010014866
    Abstract: A system for scheduling time intervals for a plurality of users comprises a database associated with one or more server means for storing a profile for each potential invitee of the system. Each invitee profile comprises user profiles that have information regarding available and unavailable times for that user and the electronic mail address for the user and resource profiles having information about the available times for a particular resource such as a room or equipment. A request generator connected over a network to the one or more server generates a request for allocation of a time interval for one or more of the plurality of invitees. The system then provides a busy time determination device that gathers the profiles for the plurality of invitees that were requested by the request generating means and that are available in the databases and determines whether those invitees are available during the time interval requested by the request generating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: DOUGLAS W. CONMY, STEVEN R. BECKHARDT, JOHN BANKS-BINICI, ROBERT SLAPIKOFF