Patents by Inventor Valerie M. Bennett

Valerie M. Bennett 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: 9606814
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing navigation assistance within a user interface. A request for look-ahead navigation assistance is received and the user's current location within the application is determined. Application state data associated with the user's current location within the application is processed to generate possible destination locations within the application. The resulting possible location destinations within the application are then contextually displayed to the user within a user interface as graphical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ethan K. Merrill, Valerie M. Bennett
  • Patent number: 8943423
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user interface (UI) flagging. The methods involve setting a first visual indicator on or adjacent to a first UI element of a UI when code that generates the first UI element has been added to an application or modified so as to change at least one functional characteristic of the first UI element. The methods also involve setting a second visual indicator on a first UI object of the application when code that generates the first UI object has been modified so as to remove a second UI element therefrom. The visual indicators are set by adding UI flagging code to the code that generates the first UI element and/or first UI object. Also, third visual indicators can be set on or adjacent to second UI objects that have “trails” to the first UI element and/or the first UI object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ethan K. Merrill, Valerie M. Bennett
  • Patent number: 8656275
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to subscribing and updating nodes within XML documents and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). In one embodiment of the invention, a method for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that includes receiving a XPATH expression for a node in an XML document, retrieving the node identified by the XPATH expression, determining if a template exists for the identified node, where the template resides in a database of a document management system, comparing the template expression to the XPATH expression and determining if the expressions match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, Benson K. Chen, Stephen M. Hinton, Douglas S. Williams
  • Patent number: 8549396
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to subscribing and updating nodes within XML documents and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). In one embodiment of the invention, a method for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that includes receiving a XPATH expression for a node in an XML document, retrieving the node identified by the XPATH expression, determining if a template exists for the identified node, where the template resides in a database of a document management system, comparing the template expression to the XPATH expression and determining if the expressions match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, Benson K. Chen, Stephen M. Hinton, Douglas S. Williams
  • Publication number: 20120158697
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to subscribing and updating nodes within XML documents and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). In one embodiment of the invention, a method for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that includes receiving a XPATH expression for a node in an XML document, retrieving the node identified by the XPATH expression, determining if a template exists for the identified node, where the template resides in a database of a document management system, comparing the template expression to the XPATH expression and determining if the expressions match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. BENNETT, Benson K. CHEN, Stephen M. HINTON, Douglas S. WILLIAMS
  • Patent number: 8001207
    Abstract: The present invention is a common location-based service adapter interface. The common location-based service adapter interface can include a uniform input interface through which location-based services can be requested using a uniform format which is independent of any specific formatting required by a particular service adapter configured to process the location-based services. The common location-based service adapter interface also can include a uniform output interface through which specifically formatted result sets can be formatted using the uniform format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Virinder M. Batra, Valerie M. Bennett, Andrew N. Capella, Xiaoyan Chen, Xiao Cheng Ding, Peter R. Gamble, Steven M. Miller
  • Publication number: 20110161798
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to subscribing and updating nodes within XML documents and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). In one embodiment of the invention, a method for matching various combinations of XML Path Language (XPATH) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that includes receiving a XPATH expression for a node in an XML document, retrieving the node identified by the XPATH expression, determining if a template exists for the identified node, where the template resides in a database of a document management system, comparing the template expression to the XPATH expression and determining if the expressions match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, Benson K. Chen, Stephen M. Hinton, Douglas S. Williams
  • Publication number: 20110161887
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing navigation assistance within a user interface. A request for look-ahead navigation assistance is received and the user's current location within the application is determined. Application state data associated with the user's current location within the application is processed to generate possible destination locations within the application. The resulting possible location destinations within the application are then contextually displayed to the user within a user interface as graphical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Ethan K. Merrill, Valerie M. Bennett
  • Patent number: 7970889
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for enabling end users to subscribe to information content, without requiring the end user to initiate the subscription process. User patterns are observed, and content subscriptions are offered to users based on these observations. Preferably, the user is allowed to customize the offered subscription, including conditions to be evaluated before content is considered as being of interest to this user, and/or one or more actions to be taken when the conditions are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, George L. Fridrich, Mohit Jain
  • Publication number: 20110010644
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user interface (UI) flagging. The methods involve setting a first visual indicator on or adjacent to a first UI element of a UI when code that generates the first UI element has been added to an application or modified so as to change at least one functional characteristic of the first UI element. The methods also involve setting a second visual indicator on a first UI object of the application when code that generates the first UI object has been modified so as to remove a second UI element therefrom. The visual indicators are set by adding UI flagging code to the code that generates the first UI element and/or first UI object. Also, third visual indicators can be set on or adjacent to second UI objects that have “trails” to the first UI element and/or the first UI object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ethan K. Merrill, Valerie M. Bennett
  • Patent number: 7711742
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for programmatically determining one or more logical choices to be offered to users as conditions of a data query (e.g., for searching a content source), and enabling extensions to already-established queries to be programmatically created. A number of different aspects are described, and include programmatically determining all query conditions as well as allowing a user to specify (or request programmatic determination of) further conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, George L. Fridrich, Mohit Jain
  • Publication number: 20040064565
    Abstract: A method of requesting location-based services using a rejection model. Responsive to receiving from a pervasive device a network request for location-based processing, the received network request can be stored prior to being forwarded to a selected location-based application. A rejection response to the forwarded network request can be received subsequently and a request for required location information can be identified in the rejection response. The required location information can be identified within the stored network request and a specific network request can be formulated with the required location information. Finally, the specific network request can be forwarded to the selected location-based application. The selected location-based application, in turn, can perform the requested location-based processing using the required location information provided in the specific network response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Virinder M. Batra, Valerie M. Bennett, Larry A. Brocious, Andrew N. Capella, Stephen V. Feustel, Peter R. Gamble, Joseph M. Gdaniec, James P. Hennessy, Michael J. Howland
  • Publication number: 20030172125
    Abstract: The present invention is a common location-based service adapter interface. The common location-based service adapter interface can include a uniform input interface through which location-based services can be requested using a uniform format which is independent of any specific formatting required by a particular service adapter configured to process the location-based services. The common location-based service adapter interface also can include a uniform output interface through which specifically formatted result sets can be formatted using the uniform format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Virinder M. Batra, Valerie M. Bennett, Andrew N. Capella, Xiaoyan Chen, Xiao Cheng Ding, Peter R. Gamble, Steven M. Miller