Patents by Inventor James Rubas
James Rubas 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: 9020913Abstract: Techniques for providing at least one user access to one or more documents in a collaborative computing environment in accordance with a search engine are provided. The user is presented with search results, wherein the search results comprise at least one document comprising at least one portion to which the user has no access. A request from the user for access to the at least one document is received. A supervising entity is then notified of the user request to access the at least one document. An instruction from the supervising entity is then received. In accordance with the received instruction, the user is granted access to the at least one document.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nithya Rajamani, James Rubas, Norbert G. Vogl, Wlodek Wlodzimierz Zadrozny
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Patent number: 7783728Abstract: A policy for a computer system is transformed into a plurality of sub-policies, at least one synchronization step, and a final action. The sub-policies are distributed to corresponding sub-components in the computer system. The sub-policies are evaluated, wherein each sub-component evaluates its corresponding one or more sub-policies as other sub-components evaluate their corresponding one or more sub-policies. The sub-policies are synchronized by using the at least one synchronization step. The final action is performed in response to synchronizing the sub-policies. The computer system can be singular or distributed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mandis Sadr Mohammad Beigi, Murthy V Devarakonda, Marc Adam Kaplan, Rohit Jain, James Rubas, Upendra Sharma, Akshat Verma
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Patent number: 7584266Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer product that, in a system having a client computer, and apparatus for connecting the client computer to a network having a server for backing up the client computer, enables transferring data from the client computer to the server, by connecting the client computer to the network; backing up data on the client computer to a storage device attached to the network when the client computer is connected to the network; and transferring the data from the storage device to the server, preferably at a time determined by the server.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven J. Mastrianni, James Rubas, Ajay Mohindra, Thomas F. Chefalas, Norbert G. Vogl
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Publication number: 20090112868Abstract: Techniques for providing at least one user access to one or more documents in a collaborative computing environment in accordance with a search engine are provided. The user is presented with search results, wherein the search results comprise at least one document comprising at least one portion to which the user has no access. A request from the user for access to the at least one document is received. A supervising entity is then notified of the user request to access the at least one document. An instruction from the supervising entity is then received. In accordance with the received instruction, the user is granted access to the at least one document.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Inventors: Nithya Rajamani, James Rubas, Norbert G. Vogl, Wlodek Wlodzimierz Zadrozny
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Publication number: 20090112841Abstract: A method and system are disclosed that enable a user to search a large collection of structured and unstructured documents using semantic concepts that the system provides to them, to search the most relevant business activity first, and then using one of the business activities as the additional context to search for specific document or documents that are most relevant. One aspect of the invention provides a methodology to perform concept-based structured search over document collections to obtain search results as business activities and associated relevant documents using the business activity context. The document collections are obtained by aggregating documents corresponding to a business activity. The instances are extracted from the document collections together with any concept-relationship specific heuristics in that domain. Another aspect of the invention enables the enterprise user to enter concepts and instances that define the search parameters using a structured user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Murthy V. Devarakonda, Nithya Rajamani, James Rubas, Norbert G. Vogl, Wlodek W. Zadrozny
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Publication number: 20060112389Abstract: A policy for a computer system is transformed into a plurality of sub-policies, at least one synchronization step, and a final action. The sub-policies are distributed to corresponding sub-components in the computer system. The sub-policies are evaluated, wherein each sub-component evaluates its corresponding one or more sub-policies as other sub-components evaluate their corresponding one or more sub-policies. The sub-policies are synchronized by using the at least one synchronization step. The final action is performed in response to synchronizing the sub-policies. The computer system can be singular or distributed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2004Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventors: Mandis Beigi, Murthy Devarakonda, Marc Kaplan, Rohit Jain, James Rubas, Upendra Sharma, Akshat Verma
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Publication number: 20050131996Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer product that, in a system having a client computer, and apparatus for connecting the client computer to a network having a server for backing up the client computer, enables transferring data from the client computer to the server, by connecting the client computer to the network; backing up data on the client computer to a storage device attached to the network when the client computer is connected to the network; and transferring the data from the storage device to the server, preferably at a time determined by the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Steven Mastrianni, James Rubas, Ajay Mohindra, Thomas Chefalas, Norbert Vogl
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Publication number: 20030140119Abstract: The invention provides methods, apparatus and systems that allow devices to enter and leave a local domain often and still allow consumers of the service provided by the device to easily detect its availability. To achieve this, an example embodiment locates a “service discovery proxy” in the local domain. On receiving a service discovery request from a remote inquirer, the proxy resolves the service request based on those services that are determined to be dynamically available in the local domain at that time. The proxy resolves the incoming service request within its local domain by using any method for local service discovery. The response to the service discovery received from the local devices is customized by the service discovery proxy, wherein the customization includes formatting, filtering, aggregating, and/or selecting particular responses. The proxy then sends the customized response back to the remote inquirer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arup Acharya, Stefan Berger, Young-Bae Ko, Nathan Junsup Lee, James Rubas
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Patent number: 6563517Abstract: The present invention provides methods, devices and systems for dynamically adjusting transcoding parameters so as to increase the benefits of transcoding. Methods of adaptation are designed to cope with the variability of network characteristics and of the size of transcoded images. The invention also provides a method and apparatus to enable the transcoding proxy to adjust a quality-size tradeoff on a per-image and/or a per-client basis. The adaptive transcoder chooses different parameters for each object, and provides performance improvements. The invention further provides a general framework for making policy decisions taking into account available bandwidth, content and type of image, and user preferences. The invention also includes methods for generating feedback about the choice of optimal transcoding parameters to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1999Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.Inventors: Pravin Bhagwat, Richard Yeh-whein Han, Richard Orville LaMaire, Todd William Mummert, James Rubas