Patents by Inventor Jeff K. Wilson

Jeff K. Wilson 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: 8549079
    Abstract: Methods and Systems are provided for efficiently forwarding e-mail. The e-mail is forwarded in response to being dragging and dropping it into another e-mail. A user selects the e-mail to be forwarded, drags and drops it into another e-mail with the desired distribution list, resulting in a third e-mail being created addressed to the desired distribution list and including the e-mail to be forwarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jeff K. Wilson
  • Patent number: 8010520
    Abstract: Amounts of time that search result content is displayed for viewing can be collected and used for relevancy ranking. Selection of a first of a plurality of search results is detected. The plurality of search results is received in response to submission of a set of one or more search terms. An amount of time content of the first search result is displayed for viewing is determined. The content is loaded in response to the selection of the first search result. An indication of the amount of time is supplied as input for ranking relevancy of the first search result with respect to the set of one or more search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Indran Naick, Jeff K. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7818385
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments of the present invention described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for forwarding a reply email message. The process dynamically inserts email addresses associated with a plurality of recipients of an original email message and with an email address associated with the sender of the original email message into a recipient field of the reply email message. The email address associated with the sender of the original email message is identified to form an identified email address, wherein a copy of the reply email message is unsent to the identified email address. However, the identified email address remains part of the recipient field. In response to receiving a send command, the reply email message is sent to the email addresses associated with the recipient field excluding the identified email address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Indran Naick, Jeff K. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7792911
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for locking the reply recipients field of an e-mail to ensure that reply e-mails or forwarded e-mails include the original recipients of the e-mail. In some embodiments a reply e-mail or forwarded e-mail that does not include the locked recipients will be prevented from being sent. In other embodiments copies of the reply/forwarded e-mail will be sent to the locked recipients even though they do not appear on the distribution list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jeff K. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7730466
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for manipulating source code in a text editor, which includes receiving an input, the input designating an identifier. The method further includes associating a plurality of source code fragments with the identifier. Additionally, the method includes adding comment characters to each source code fragment of the plurality of source code fragments associated with the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jeff K. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7716295
    Abstract: Methods and Systems are provided for managing the reply recipients field of a reply e-mail. In response to creating a reply e-mail the recipients are displayed in a format convenient for specifying their recipient classification. Typical recipient classifications include reply recipients (Reply To), carbon copy recipients (CC), blind carbon copy recipients (BCC) and/or file carbon copy recipients (FCC). The recipient classification for each e-mail address may be selected by an input from a user, such as mouse click, without the need to cut and paste e-mail addresses. The recipient classification display is updated in response to detecting a user selection, and an optional control is provided to specify the remaining unassigned recipients to one recipient status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jeff K. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20100094534
    Abstract: Users typically use routing systems including GPS systems, handheld devices, and online map routing services to navigate from one point to another (sometimes through several intermediate points). Routing systems typically calculate a route based on information derived from roadway maps. Typically, routing options focus on determining a shortest route, a route that can be traversed in the least amount of time, a route with the least use of freeways and toll roads, etc. Although routing options may be oriented towards helping users save time and money, the directions are generally confusing and do not take the users' driving preferences into account. Functionality can be implemented to determine a simplified route, regardless of time and distance, may present a driver with the least challenging set of directions. This may prevent the driver from missing a direction and navigating off the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Indran Naick, Jeff K. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20090193009
    Abstract: Amounts of time that search result content is displayed for viewing can be collected and used for relevancy ranking. Selection of a first of a plurality of search results is detected. The plurality of search results is received in response to submission of a set of one or more search terms. An amount of time content of the first search result is displayed for viewing is determined. The content is loaded in response to the selection of the first search result. An indication of the amount of time is supplied as input for ranking relevancy of the first search result with respect to the set of one or more search terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Indran Naick, Jeff K. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20090125596
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments of the present invention described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for forwarding a reply email message. The process dynamically inserts email addresses associated with a plurality of recipients of an original email message and with an email address associated with the sender of the original email message into a recipient field of the reply email message. The email address associated with the sender of the original email message is identified to form an identified email address, wherein a copy of the reply email message is unsent to the identified email address. However, the identified email address remains part of the recipient field. In response to receiving a send command, the reply email message is sent to the email addresses associated with the recipient field excluding the identified email address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Indran Naick, Jeff K. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20080168373
    Abstract: Methods and Systems are provided for efficiently forwarding e-mail. The e-mail is forwarded in response to being dragging and dropping it into another e-mail. A user selects the e-mail to be forwarded, drags and drops it into another e-mail with the desired distribution list, resulting in a third e-mail being created addressed to the desired distribution list and including the e-mail to be forwarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventor: JEFF K. WILSON
  • Publication number: 20080168360
    Abstract: Methods and Systems are provided for managing the reply recipients field of a reply e-mail. In response to creating a reply e-mail the recipients are displayed in a format convenient for specifying their recipient classification. Typical recipient classifications include reply recipients (Reply To), carbon copy recipients (CC), blind carbon copy recipients (BCC) and/or file carbon copy recipients (FCC). The recipient classification for each e-mail address may be selected by an input from a user, such as mouse click, without the need to cut and paste e-mail addresses. The recipient classification display is updated in response to detecting a user selection, and an optional control is provided to specify the remaining unassigned recipients to one recipient status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventor: Jeff K. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20080168269
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for locking the reply recipients field of an e-mail to ensure that reply e-mails or forwarded e-mails include the original recipients of the e-mail. In some embodiments a reply e-mail or forwarded e-mail that does not include the locked recipients will be prevented from being sent. In other embodiments copies of the reply/forwarded e-mail will be sent to the locked recipients even though they do not appear on the distribution list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventor: JEFF K. WILSON
  • Publication number: 20070282946
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for providing a structured e-mail query. The method includes receiving an input of a destination e-mail address, the destination e-mail address being associated with a service provider. The method further includes activating a query formatter in response to receiving the input e-mail address, the query formatter configured for directing query construction. The method further includes receiving a query for a desired service of the service provider. The query is contained within an e-mail and is formatted for automated processing by an e-mail server associated with the destination e-mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Indran Naick, Jeff K. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20070240032
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for performing equivalence checking of a circuit design are disclosed. The method includes receiving the hypertext markup language document to a system and displaying the hypertext markup language document in a display window in a browser. Responsive to a user selecting data within a table of the hypertext markup language document and dragging a cursor of the system in a vertical direction while depressing a button on a user input-output device of the system, content is passed from the table to a DOM interpreter and parsing of the selected data to a formatted data structure is performed. A cursor location of the cursor for an initial selection within the hypertext markup language document is identified and a specific column number of the location is noted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventor: Jeff K. Wilson