Patents by Inventor Gordon Bockus, JR.

Gordon Bockus, JR. 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: 8929864
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, Jr., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 8918081
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, Jr., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 8868037
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, Jr., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 8862098
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, Jr., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 8804157
    Abstract: A method, programmed medium and system are disclosed which provide for an in-line scanner used to dynamically scan a document or image, real-time as it is being printed within a printer unit and before the printed document exits the printer. The scanned image is compared to a stored electronically-generated image of the file being printed. When the comparison is determinative that there is a printing problem, the printing operation may be stopped quickly before the partially printed document or image has exited the printer. An error message may then be displayed, and the user is enabled to take appropriate action. A resume function enables a user to resume a print job at exactly the place where it had left off before detecting a print problem. In another embodiment, when the system detects a problem with a print job, the entire print job of the remainder of the print job is sent from the faulting printer to another printer where either the remainder of the print job or the entire print job is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Bockus, Jr., Michael Andrew Bockus, Derek Ryan Brewer, Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20140080452
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, JR., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20140080453
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, JR., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20130124971
    Abstract: Enabling the updating of Web pages already received at the Web client station with only the change data, without the need to completely refresh the received Web page by transmitting a Web page from a Web page source site to a requesting receiving display station, and monitoring whether the source Web page of transmitted Web page has been modified. Changes in the Web pages are recorded at the page source site. Polling id done at selected intervals, at said receiving display station, to determine whether said source site monitoring indicates, i.e. has recorded, that the Web page has been modified subsequent to transmitting. In response to a determination that the source Web page has been modified, the recorded data representing the modification is requested by said receiving station from said source site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gordon Bockus, JR., Michael A. Bockus, Derek R. Brewer, Robert D. Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20130072158
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, JR., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20130072157
    Abstract: A network service provider computer remotely overrides and controls user notification settings of a mobile communications device by establishing one or more authentication keys by a server computer for a specific mobile communication device; transmitting the one or more authentication keys to the specific mobile communication device to establish a trusted relationship; responsive to an event or signal requiring overriding of user notification settings, preparing a notification control message including at least one notification control parameter; and transmitting to the specific mobile communications device the notification control message to cause it to implement and override one or more user notification settings according to the at least one notification control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Brewer, Michael Andrew Bockus, Gordon Bockus, JR., Robert Dale Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20120257917
    Abstract: A method, programmed medium and system are disclosed which provide for an in-line scanner used to dynamically scan a document or image, real-time as it is being printed within a printer unit and before the printed document exits the printer. The scanned image is compared to a stored electronically-generated image of the file being printed. When the comparison is determinative that there is a printing problem, the printing operation may be stopped quickly before the partially printed document or image has exited the printer. An error message may then be displayed, and the user is enabled to take appropriate action. A resume function enables a user to resume a print job at exactly the place where it had left off before detecting a print problem. In another embodiment, when the system detects a problem with a print job, the entire print job of the remainder of the print job is sent from the faulting printer to another printer where either the remainder of the print job or the entire print job is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Bockus, JR., Michael Andrew Bockus, Derek Ryan Brewer, Robert Dale Wilhelm