Patents by Inventor Timothy Pressler Clark

Timothy Pressler Clark 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: 9092111
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, method, and system for capturing information on a rendered user interface including user activatable content. A user interface is executed on the computer system. An initial representation is generated of a rendered user interface. A determination is made of locations rendered in the user interface associated with user activatable content, wherein user activatable content is rendered in response to user selection of a location in the user interface associated with the user activatable content. For each determined location, content is captured from the activatable content rendered in response to the user selecting the determined location to create a captured content object having the captured content. The captured content objects and the initial representation are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Patricia Narvaez Cifra, Timothy Pressler Clark, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Heidi Louise Saufferer
  • Patent number: 8307275
    Abstract: The present invention enables users to dynamically manage historical data within documents bearing one or more links, and retain the relationships defined by the links. The present invention tracks the links not just from source documents to destination documents, but also from destination documents back to the source documents, organizes the links in a hierarchical manner based on the content/naming of the links, and displays the link information to the user in a real-time and meaningful way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Pressler Clark, Zachary Adam Garbow, Richard Michael Theis, Brian Paul Wallenfelt
  • Patent number: 8108839
    Abstract: A computer program is traced by associating a trigger with at least one code location, and upon encountering the trigger during execution, selectively enabling trace data collection data at subsequent traceable events. Preferably, collection of trace data is enabled only for procedure instances active (i.e., currently executing or on the call stack) at the time that the trigger is encountered. Preferably, a special environmental flag is set on encountering the trigger, saved in each current stack frame, reset on calling any new procedure, and restored from the stack on return from a procedure. Collection of trace data on a traceable event (such as an explicit trace statement in the code) is conditioned on the state of the special environmental flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy Pressler Clark
  • Publication number: 20120023402
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, method, and system for capturing information on a rendered user interface including user activatable content. A user interface is executed on the computer system. An initial representation is generated of a rendered user interface. A determination is made of locations rendered in the user interface associated with user activatable content, wherein user activatable content is rendered in response to user selection of a location in the user interface associated with the user activatable content. For each determined location, content is captured from the activatable content rendered in response to the user selecting the determined location to create a captured content object having the captured content. The captured content objects and the initial representation are stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patricia Narvaez Cifra, Timothy Pressler Clark, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Heidi Louise Saufferer
  • Patent number: 7890651
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a request is received from a client that includes a content identifier that identifies content. Content servers are determined that store the content, which is divided into frames. Time reference points and a time period are determined. The time period separates each of the time reference points. Logical groups of the frames are sent from the content servers to the client at the time reference points. The client receives the frames, reorders the frames into a play order, and displays the frames in the play order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn Darrell Batalden, Timothy Pressler Clark
  • Patent number: 7853898
    Abstract: A digital device automatically arranges digital images for display in a stack-based arrangement, wherein images are grouped in multiple stacks according to at least one grouping criterion, and the user can scroll over groups of images. Preferably, the digital device automatically selects a mascot image from each group as the top of the corresponding stack. When the images are displayed using a digital display apparatus, the user can scroll through the mascot images only, without reviewing the other images in each stack. When the user finds a mascot image of interest, he may optionally scroll down the images in the stack. Preferably, images are grouped according to power-on session, and mascots are chosen based on user interaction history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Pressler Clark, Zachary Adam Garbow, Kevin Glynn Paterson, Richard Michael Theis, Brian Paul Wallenfelt
  • Patent number: 7836039
    Abstract: A request is received that includes a primary keyword and a persistent keyword. In response to the request, a root page is found that includes a first term that matches the primary keyword. Descendant pages of the root page are searched for a second term that matches the persistent keyword. The search determines that the descendant pages are at levels on paths from the root page and that the levels are within a depth from the root page. A descendant page is found that is a descendant of the root page and that includes a second term that matches the persistent keyword. A root link that points at the root page and a descendant link that points at the descendant page are sent to the requester. If the number of times that the primary keyword was received is greater than a threshold number, then the primary keyword is added to the persistent keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Pressler Clark, Zachary Adam Garbow, Richard Michael Theis, Brian Paul Wallenfelt
  • Publication number: 20080310309
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a content server has multiple queues, each of which includes records. Each record in a queue represents a frame in a logical group of frames. Each of the queues transitions between a control state, an ingestion state, and a distribution state. During the control states, records are added to the queues. During the ingestion states, the frames are copied into memory at the content server. During the distribution states, the content server sends the logical groups to a client. Each of the control state, the ingestion state, and the distribution state has a time duration equal to the amount of time needed to play the logical group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Glenn Darrell Batalden, Timothy Pressler Clark
  • Publication number: 20080140606
    Abstract: A request is received that includes a primary keyword and a persistent keyword. In response to the request, a root page is found that includes a first term that matches the primary keyword. Descendant pages of the root page are searched for a second term that matches the persistent keyword. The search determines that the descendant pages are at levels on paths from the root page and that the levels are within a depth from the root page. A descendant page is found that is a descendant of the root page and that includes a second term that matches the persistent keyword. A root link that points at the root page and a descendant link that points at the descendant page are sent to the requester. If the number of times that the primary keyword was received is greater than a threshold number, then the primary keyword is added to the persistent keywords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy Pressler Clark, Zachary Adam Garbow, Richard Michael Theis, Brian Paul Wallenfelt
  • Publication number: 20080133460
    Abstract: An identifier of a root page, a keyword, and a depth are received from a client. Descendant pages in paths from the root page are searched. The descendant pages exist in the paths at levels within the depth from the root page. A term in a first descendant page is found that matches the keyword. A child link that points to a child page of the root page is found. A path relevancy for the child link is determined by performing a logical-or operation on page relevancies of each of the descendant pages in a path. A copy of the root page, a descendant link that points at the first descendant page, a match score for the first descendant page, and a path relevancy for the path of the child link are sent to the client. In this way, pages that are linked from root pages may be searched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy Pressler Clark, Zachary Adam Garbow, Richard Michael Theis, Brian Paul Wallenfelt
  • Publication number: 20080134148
    Abstract: A computer program is traced by associating a trigger with at least one code location, and upon encountering the trigger during execution, selectively enabling trace data collection data at subsequent traceable events. Preferably, collection of trace data is enabled only for procedure instances active (i.e., currently executing or on the call stack) at the time that the trigger is encountered. Preferably, a special environmental flag is set on encountering the trigger, saved in each current stack frame, reset on calling any new procedure, and restored from the stack on return from a procedure. Collection of trace data on a traceable event (such as an explicit trace statement in the code) is conditioned on the state of the special environmental flag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Timothy Pressler Clark