Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Paulsen Sawyer

Elizabeth Paulsen Sawyer 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).

  • Automatic time-zone sensitive scheduling
    Patent number: 8655714
    Abstract: A system that enables a user to indicate time zones in their electronic calendar for corresponding time periods in the future, and that makes the future time zone information it collects available for scheduling purposes, so that free time can be correctly determined even for frequently traveling users. The disclosed system further automatically provides indications to the user when input future free time information creates local times for previously scheduled calendar events that are outside of the user's regular working hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Weir, Maureen Elizabeth Kraft, Raj Heda, Diane Weir, Elizabeth Paulsen Sawyer
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TIME-ZONE SENSITIVE SCHEDULING
    Publication number: 20090168609
    Abstract: A system that enables a user to indicate time zones in their electronic calendar for corresponding time periods in the future, and that makes the future time zone information it collects available for scheduling purposes, so that free time can be correctly determined even for frequently traveling users. The disclosed system further automatically provides indications to the user when input future free time information creates local times for previously scheduled calendar events that are outside of the user's regular working hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Robert C. Weir, Maureen Elizabeth Kraft, Raj Heda, Diana Weir, Elizabeth Paulsen Sawyer