Patents by Inventor Jana Helton Jenkins
Jana Helton Jenkins 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: 9593806Abstract: To warn of hazardous conditions in a monitored space, the presence of an object bearing an RFID tag is detected using an RFID tag reader. Objects may be, for example, human beings, vehicles, or stationary materiel. A determination is made as to whether the object poses a hazard by, for example, reading data from the RFID tag or by accessing a database using data read from the RFID tag. If the object is determined to pose a hazard, the nature of the hazard is determined from the RFID tag or the database, and warning about the nature of the hazard is provided proximate to the monitored space. In some embodiments, providing the warning may be conditional upon detecting the concurrent presence of two objects in the monitored space.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 8613106Abstract: A method, operable on a processing device, for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint may include receiving, by the processing device, a request to provide a list of plugins installed on a browser. The method may also include generating, by the processing device, a fake list of plugins installed on the browser. The method may additionally include communicating, by the processing device, the fake list of plugins installed on the browser in response to the received request to provide a list of plugins installed on the browser.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denise Ann Bell, Travis M. Grigsby, Jana Helton Jenkins
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Patent number: 8510118Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 8339366Abstract: A method and system for utilizing a game console and an input device is disclosed. The method and system comprise mapping commands to system directives of the game console and generating an input signal having predefined characteristics corresponding to the input device being utilized to engage the system directives. The method and system include performing system functions using an input controller associated with the input device after the system directives are engaged.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jason Alan Cox, Lydia Mai Do, Jana Helton Jenkins, William Gabriel Pagan
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Patent number: 8335691Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Publication number: 20120311417Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, JR., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 8315879Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Publication number: 20120194337Abstract: To warn of hazardous conditions in a monitored space, the presence of an object bearing an RFID tag is detected using an RFID tag reader. Objects may be, for example, human beings, vehicles, or stationary materiel. A determination is made as to whether the object poses a hazard by, for example, reading data from the RFID tag or by accessing a database using data read from the RFID tag. If the object is determined to pose a hazard, the nature of the hazard is determined from the RFID tag or the database, and warning about the nature of the hazard is provided proximate to the monitored space. In some embodiments, providing the warning may be conditional upon detecting the concurrent presence of two objects in the monitored space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, JR., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Publication number: 20120198327Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, JR., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 8179257Abstract: To warn of hazardous conditions in a monitored space, the presence of an object bearing an RFID tag is detected using an RFID tag reader. Objects may be, for example, human beings, vehicles, or stationary materiel. A determination is made as to whether the object poses a hazard by, for example, reading data from the RFID tag or by accessing a database using data read from the RFID tag. If the object is determined to pose a hazard, the nature of the hazard is determined from the RFID tag or the database, and warning about the nature of the hazard is provided proximate to the monitored space. In some embodiments, providing the warning may be conditional upon detecting the concurrent presence of two objects in the monitored space.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Publication number: 20120030576Abstract: A method, operable on a processing device, for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint may include receiving, by the processing device, a request to provide a list of plugins installed on a browser. The method may also include generating, by the processing device, a fake list of plugins installed on the browser. The method may additionally include communicating, by the processing device, the fake list of plugins installed on the browser in response to the received request to provide a list of plugins installed on the browser.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: DENISE ANN BELL, TRAVIS M. GRIGSBY, JANA HELTON JENKINS
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Patent number: 7957775Abstract: A low battery notification service is provided to a user of a wireless device capable of monitoring the voltage level of its internal battery and sending a low battery warning message. The messages are received at a service provider that maintains subscriber profiles associated with a subscriber's wireless device. When a low battery warning message is received, a wireless device identifier in the warning message is used to access a notification list included in a stored subscriber profile. Notification list entries are selected based on their assigned priorities and the existence or absence of conditions of use, permitting low battery notifications to be sent to target systems on the notification list until an acceptable response is received or the notification list is exhausted.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 7840549Abstract: Provided are techniques for updating retrievability aids. A search request including one or more search terms is received. Each of the one or more search terms is captured. A list of topics is provided to a user as search results. User selection of a topic in the list of topics is received. After reviewing the topic, the user adds one or more folksonomy tags to the topic. The one or more folksonomy tags added by the user to the topic are captured. Each of the one or more search terms and each of the one or more folksonomy tags are mapped to the topic. For each of the search terms, based on a number of times that the search term has been used to search for the topic, the search term is added to one or more retrievability aids. For each of the one or more folksonomy tags, based on a number of times that the folksonomy tag has been applied to the topic, the folksonomy tag is added to at least one of the one or more retrievability aids.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Earl Wayne Bailey, Jr., Michelle Lynn Corbin, Jana Helton Jenkins
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Publication number: 20100169754Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, JR., Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 7734613Abstract: A method, computer program product and system for creating a mini information center. A user is presented with an initial set of questions to answer. Based on these answers, topics of interests are identified. These topics of interests are presented to the user. Each topic of interest may be associated with one or more articles. The user may then select the articles that are of interest to the user. Upon selection of each article, the user may be presented with a list of options including the option of storing the selected article and associated topic in a directory which will later be used to build a mini information center. Once the user has completed the selection of articles of interest, the mini information center is built using the stored selected articles and associated topics thereby enabling the user to access the desired information in the information center using less time.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jana Helton Jenkins, Beth Monica Pursley, Ying Xiao
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Patent number: 7720829Abstract: An application for middleware sign-on is provided. A secure engine in the middleware generates a soft keyboard and scroll area. The scroll area includes coordinates associated with the soft keyboard. A selector is generated overlaid on the soft keyboard. The selector moves with respect to the soft keyboard in response to cursor movement within the scroll area. As the cursor movement causes the selector, the secure engine generates and stores false data key selections. When a user selects a data key with the selector, the middleware generates and stores the valid data key entry. The middleware stores both the valid data key selections and the false data key selections in the same area. Once the user submits his completed selection, or data, the middleware processes the data.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Tricia E. Garrett, Jana Helton Jenkins
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Publication number: 20090280899Abstract: A method and system for utilizing a game console and an input device is disclosed. The method and system comprise mapping commands to system directives of the game console and generating an input signal having predefined characteristics corresponding to the input device being utilized to engage the system directives. The method and system include performing system functions using an input controller associated with the input device after the system directives are engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Alan Cox, Lydia Mai Do, Jana Helton Jenkins, William Gabriel Pagan
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Patent number: 7526286Abstract: A system and method for remotely controlling a computer using voice commands via a mobile device are disclosed. Remotely controlling a computer via a mobile device, comprises at least: receiving a voice command via the mobile device; comparing the received voice command to validated audio commands associated with script commands specific to a predetermined operating system, wherein the comparing step identifies a script command associated with a validated audio command based on the received voice command; transmitting the identified script command and verification data from the mobile device to the remote computer wherein the remote computer: uploads the transmitted script command upon verification that the mobile device is authorized to control the remote computer; processes the uploaded script command in accordance with said predetermined operating system; and sends, to the mobile device, a visual or acoustic signal indicative of a status of processing the uploaded script command.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Steven Michael Miller, Jana Helton Jenkins
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Publication number: 20090063447Abstract: Provided are techniques for updating retrievability aids. A search request including one or more search terms is received. Each of the one or more search terms is captured. A list of topics is provided to a user as search results. User selection of a topic in the list of topics is received. After reviewing the topic, the user adds one or more folksonomy tags to the topic. The one or more folksonomy tags added by the user to the topic are captured. Each of the one or more search terms and each of the one or more folksonomy tags are mapped to the topic. For each of the search terms, based on a number of times that the search term has been used to search for the topic, the search term is added to one or more retrievability aids. For each of the one or more folksonomy tags, based on a number of times that the folksonomy tag has been applied to the topic, the folksonomy tag is added to at least one of the one or more retrievability aids.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Earl Wayne BAILEY, Jr., Michelle Lynn CORBIN, Jana Helton JENKINS
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Publication number: 20080010405Abstract: An invention is disclosed for creating selectable user profiles and associated actions for removable computer and/or electronics system memory devices. Specifically, a device, method and system are disclosed for using a software application to create and use selectable data profiles for information contained in a removable portable memory device, so that a user can select one or more profile(s) for the purpose of performing ensuing actions on the information defined by each selected profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2006Publication date: January 10, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lloyd W. Allen, Jana Helton Jenkins, Steven Michael Miller