Patents by Inventor Steven Michael Miller
Steven Michael Miller 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: 8364393Abstract: A computer system displays an image of a first geographic location by a computer system, receives a user selection of a portion of the image of the first geographic location, processes the user-selected image portion to identify a meaning for the user-selected image portion, computes a logical connection between the computer system identified meaning and a second geographic location, and directs the user to the second geographic location. Computing the logical connection may include finding a match between a significance of the second geographic location and the meaning identified for the user-selected image portion. Receiving a user selection of an image portion may include receiving a user selection identifying an ad within the image and wherein the processing to identify a meaning for the user-selected image portion includes identifying a meaning for the ad.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Travis M. Grigsby, Frank Lawrence Jania, Steven Michael Miller
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Patent number: 8345098Abstract: In V2V or other networks in which multiple video cameras can share video data, a user may elect to modify a primary view by electronically “removing” obstructing objects from the primary view. The user begins by identifying the objects to be electronically removed from the simulated view, either by designating the boundaries of the objects or by identifying classes of objects to be removed. Pel locations associated with obstructing objects are identified in the primary data set. Video data provided by cameras other than a primary video camera is analyzed to identify common features in the primary and secondary views and to identify pels that correspond with object-associated pels in the primary view. A merged data set, consisting of pel data from the primary data set and from at least one of the secondary data sets, provides the video data presented in the simulated view.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Travis M. Grigsby, Steven Michael Miller, Pamela Ann Nesbitt, Lisa Anne Seacat
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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: 20120275577Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for alerting a participant when a topic of interest is being discussed and/or a speaker of interest is speaking during a conference call. A participant to a conference call identifies the topics and/or speakers of interest which is stored for future use along with the participant's contact information. When a participant's identified topic of interest is being discussed and/or a participant's identified speaker of interest is speaking during a conference call, the participant will be alerted to that fact, such as via the means specified in the participant's contact information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Steven Michael Miller, Lisa Anne Seacat
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Patent number: 8295462Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for alerting a participant when a topic of interest is being discussed and/or a speaker of interest is speaking during a conference call. A participant to a conference call identifies the topics and/or speakers of interest which is stored for future use along with the participant's contact information. When a participant's identified topic of interest is being discussed and/or a participant's identified speaker of interest is speaking during a conference call, the participant will be alerted to that fact, such as via the means specified in the participant's contact information.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven Michael Miller, Lisa Anne Seacat
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Patent number: 8289347Abstract: A user is enabled to choose a particular landmark to display on a particular view of a digital map instead of a landmark chosen by a digital map designer. This particular landmark may then represent all landmarks that are in close proximity to each other within a geographical area on the digital map when only one of the landmarks can be displayed on that particular view of the digital map.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Travis M. Grigsby, Frank Lawrence Jania, 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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Publication number: 20120169834Abstract: In V2V or other networks in which multiple video cameras can share video data, a network participant ordinarily has the option of selecting a particular video data stream (either generated by local cameras or received from other network participants. To facilitate the process of selecting a video data stream for presentation, the user's vehicle (in a V2V network) receives video data streams generated by other network participants along with identifiers indicating the video data stream actually being presented to the sender. The receiving system identifies the received video data stream by the greatest number of network participants and displays the identified video data stream on the user's in-vehicle video display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Travis M. Grigsby, Steven Michael Miller, Pamela Ann Nesbitt, Lisa Anne Seacat
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Publication number: 20120136932Abstract: A messaging status associated with a first user is determined. A messaging status associated with a second user is set based upon, at least in part, the determined messaging status associated with the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: LISA SEACAT DELUCA, Steven Michael Miller, Pamela Ann Nesbitt
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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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Patent number: 8164420Abstract: An RFID tag includes a sensor for determining a transient state or condition of a product to which the tag is associated, and a display. The tag may be passive, semi-passive, or active. In response to receipt at the tag of a read signal that includes a first value associated with the transient state or condition, a comparison is performed. The comparison compares the first value, with a second value generated by the sensor in response to receipt of the read signal. As a result of the comparison, an indication is provided on the display. The information displayed is a function of the comparison. In one embodiment, the display provides different color indications depending on the transient state or condition sensed. In an alternative embodiment, the RFID tag display includes an electrical or thermal charge-induced pigment release medium, e.g., an electronic ink, and the tag is used to communicate information about the state of a product to which the tag is associated.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher Hoang Doan, Richard Redpath, Steven Michael Miller, Gene Wayne Cherry
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Patent number: 8018219Abstract: A module is provided for identifying outlets on a common power circuit. The module comprises a connector adapted to electrically couple with an outlet, a signal generator electrically connected to the connector and adapted to send a signal through the connector into a power circuit in response to a predetermined discrete event, an indicator; and logic electrically connected to the connector and the indicator and adapted to detect a signal from another apparatus propagated on a common circuit and activate the indicator in response to the signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Alan Calcaterra, Steven Michael Miller, Humberto Gutierrez-Rivas
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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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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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Publication number: 20100052908Abstract: An RFID tag includes a sensor for determining a transient state or condition of a product to which the tag is associated, and a display. The tag may be passive, semi-passive, or active. In response to receipt at the tag of a read signal that includes a first value associated with the transient state or condition, a comparison is performed. The comparison compares the first value, with a second value generated by the sensor in response to receipt of the read signal. As a result of the comparison, an indication is provided on the display. The information displayed is a function of the comparison. In one embodiment, the display provides different color indications depending on the transient state or condition sensed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher Hoang Doan, Richard Redpath, Steven Michael Miller, Gene Wayne Cherry
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Publication number: 20100052909Abstract: An RFID tag includes a sensor for determining a transient state or condition of a product to which the tag is associated, and a display. The tag may be passive, semi-passive, or active. In response to receipt at the tag of a read signal that includes a first value associated with the transient state or condition, a comparison is performed. The comparison compares the first value, with a second value generated by the sensor in response to receipt of the read signal. As a result of the comparison, an indication is provided on the display. The information displayed is a function of the comparison. In one embodiment, the display provides different color indications depending on the transient state or condition sensed. In an alternative embodiment, the RFID tag display includes an electrical or thermal charge-induced pigment release medium, e.g., an electronic ink, and the tag is used to communicate information about the state of a product to which the tag is associated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher Hoang Doan, Richard Redpath, Steven Michael Miller, Gene Wayne Cherry
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Patent number: 7664755Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for transmitting a computer resource to a computing device, wherein the computer resource includes at least one audio content. A visual display is presented, on the computing device, that offers options to accept and receive the computer resource with or without the at least one audio content.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Kirk Grotjohn, Steven Michael Miller, Laura Lee Girolami-Rose