Patents by Inventor Steven E. Hicks
Steven E. Hicks 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: 11188709Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Flemming Boegelund, Steven E. Hicks, Anders Westberg
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Publication number: 20190370317Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: FLEMMING BOEGELUND, STEVEN E. HICKS, ANDERS WESTBERG
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Patent number: 10437916Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Flemming Boegelund, Steven E Hicks, Anders Westberg
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Patent number: 9350722Abstract: A method and system for authenticating an end user. A selected subset of root nodes of a set of root nodes in a server mask is received, the selected subset of root nodes having been selected by the end user. In response to the receiving of the selected subset of root nodes, the end user is authenticated by determining that a spatial location in the server mask of each root node of the selected subset of root nodes matches a spatial position of a corresponding root node of a server set of transparent root nodes in the server mask, wherein the server set of transparent root nodes are a result of a first random selection of root nodes from the set of root nodes in the server mask.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Frederic Bauchot, Flemming Boegelund, Steven E. Hicks, Gerard Marmigere
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Publication number: 20150278170Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: FLEMMING BOEGELUND, STEVEN E. HICKS, ANDERS WESTBERG
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Patent number: 9086781Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Flemming Boegelund, Steven E. Hicks, Anders Westberg
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Publication number: 20150012983Abstract: A method and system for authenticating an end user. In response receiving from the end user a selected subset of root nodes of a set of root nodes in a server, the end user is authenticated by determining that a spatial location in the server mask of each root node of the selected subset of root nodes matches a spatial position of a corresponding root node of a server set of transparent root nodes in the server mask, wherein the server set of transparent root nodes are a result of a first random selection of root nodes from the set of root nodes in the server mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Flemming Boegelund, Steven E. Hicks, Gerard Marmigere
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Patent number: 8646040Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing secure access to an application over an unsecure network. A transparent identification member can be physically placed by a user against a login interface, the transparent identification member possessing a filter for filtering and displaying a pattern unique to the login interface. Thereafter, the user can be automatically permitted to authenticate an unsecure network and securely access an application over the unsecure network, in response to placing the transparent identification member against the login interface and providing a user input at a physical location on the login interface corresponding to the pattern unique to the login interface, thereby providing a secure authentication for the user to perform secure transactions over the unsecure network and preventing phishing by others with respect to the user and the unsecure network.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Flemming Boegelund, Frederic Bauchot, Gerard Marmigere, Steven E. Hicks
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Publication number: 20100205547Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: August 12, 2010Inventors: FLEMMING BOEGELUND, STEVEN E. HICKS, ANDERS WESTBERG
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Publication number: 20100024004Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing secure access to an application over an unsecure network. A transparent identification member can be physically placed by a user against a login interface, the transparent identification member possessing a filter for filtering and displaying a pattern unique to the login interface. Thereafter, the user can be automatically permitted to authenticate an unsecure network and securely access an application over the unsecure network, in response to placing the transparent identification member against the login interface and providing a user input at a physical location on the login interface corresponding to the pattern unique to the login interface, thereby providing a secure authentication for the user to perform secure transactions over the unsecure network and preventing phishing by others with respect to the user and the unsecure network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: Flemming Boegelund, Frederic Bauchot, Gerard Marmigare, Steven E. Hicks
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Publication number: 20080213089Abstract: An inflator is disclosed having a housing and a motor assembly within the housing. A first output line is in fluid communication with a first end of the motor assembly to provide a cooling path of air and a high-volume flow of air. The first output line provides a guiding path for the egress of the high-volume flow of air from the housing. A second output line is in fluid communication with a second end of the motor assembly and to provide a high-pressure flow of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Ronald C. McCurry, Steven E. Hicks, Douglas Kent Ritterling