Patents by Inventor Faisal Awada

Faisal Awada 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).

  • Publication number: 20080040667
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed that enables a user to customize selection elements of a GUI. For example, menu entries in a GUI can be customized so that the user can specify the font, the language, character sets, color, and other attributes of the text of one menu item (or less than all menu items); to have the ability to selectively activate multimedia options associated with selected menu items (e.g., to play a sound whenever the cursor/pointer passes over a particular menu item); and/or to assign an animation sequence that is unique to selected menu items. The menu item properties are defined by the user, using, for example, a dialog box that allows specification of the attributes. When the application is installed, a default set of menu item properties is defined by the software manufacturer, which can be further customized by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Herman Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20070101289
    Abstract: A method, system, and a computer program product that enables a second window opened on a display screen to “flow” into and fill/occupy all available space within the displayable area of the display screen without overlapping a first window occupying less than the maximum width and/or length of the display area. A window flowing utility enables multiple windows to concurrently coexist and fill the maximum displayable area of the display screen. The window flowing utility determines which areas of the display screen are not currently being utilized by the first window, and allows the second window to occupy all of the available space remaining on the display device surrounding the first window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Joe Brown, Philip Burkes
  • Publication number: 20060246876
    Abstract: A cellular telephone network system for notifying a cellular telephone user that a telephone call connected to the user's cellular telephone involves another telephone outside of the defined service charge range of the user's network comprising the combination of assigning to each telephone call to and from the another telephone an identifier for the network of the another telephone, an implementation in the user's cellular telephone for reading the another telephone network identifier and an implementation in the user's cellular telephone, responsive to means for reading the identifier, for displaying a message when the another telephone is in a network outside of the defined service charge range of the user's network. The user is enabled to block such calls from outside the defined charge range whereby additional charges are avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Joe Brown, Philip Burkes, Victor Espinoza
  • Publication number: 20060121949
    Abstract: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a mobile device for managing ring tones. A radio frequency transmission is detected from another mobile device. In response to detecting the radio frequency transmission from the other mobile device, a ring tone used by the other mobile device is identified to form an identified ring tone. The current ring tone is selectively changed for the mobile device to an alternate ring tone, depending on the identified ring tone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Joe Brown, Philip Burkes
  • Publication number: 20050268065
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for monitoring resources capable of being assigned to different partitions of a data processing system from a free resources pool of the data processing system. A free resources event log is associated with the free resources pool for maintaining a log of events for each resource that is in the free resources pool. When a resource is assigned to a partition from the free resources pool, a log of events for the assigned resource is transferred from the free resources event log to an event log associated with the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Joe Brown, Philip Burkes, Victor Espinoza
  • Publication number: 20050138479
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing event information in a logical partitioned data processing system. A determination is made as to whether an event for a resource is present in a first event log in a first partition in response to reallocation of the resource from the first partition to a second partition. In response to the event being present, the event is placed in a second event log in the second partition. As a result, analysis of the second event log in the second partition takes into account the event from the first partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Joe Brown, Philip Burkes, Victor Espinoza
  • Publication number: 20050060274
    Abstract: A user at a receiving Web station is provided with several alternate Web page display interface formats, from which the user may select the appropriate format for each Web document that he bookmarks. Thus, each time that a bookmarked Web document will be displayed subsequently, it will have this optimum presentation interface format. The implementation comprises bookmarking a received Web document, predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents, providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format, enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format and displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Applicant: International Business machines Corporaiton
    Inventors: Faisal Awada, Joe Brown, Philip Burkes, Victor Espinoza