Patents by Inventor Werner Geyer

Werner Geyer 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: 8423557
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus determines individual user priorities of collections of resources. The system represents collections of shared resources as end-user activities. An engine retrieves the activity access history of the user and the activity records and generates a description of each activity and a priority score. The engine may include a data collection component and a training and ranking component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lida Li, Werner Geyer, Michael Muller, Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Casey Dugan
  • Patent number: 8412815
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for activity thread integration of an alert log. In one embodiment of the invention, an alert log activity thread integration method can be provided. The method can include logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread, and, in response to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread, displaying the content of the alert. For instance, logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread can include creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity and inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Werner Geyer, Martin T. Moore, Michael Muller, Shilad W. Sen, Michael C. Wu
  • Publication number: 20130041056
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions for producing poly(meth)acrylamide foam materials having particularly reduced flammability. The present invention further relates to a method for the production, the processing and the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Evonik Roehm GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Kay Bernhard, Mathias Hempler, Thomas Barthel
  • Patent number: 8346896
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social media navigation in a social network and provide a method, system and computer program product for user pivot for media sharing in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing system for user pivot navigation. The system can include a social network executing in a host server, the social network providing shared media for viewing by communicatively coupled clients. The system also can include user pivot logic coupled to the social network. The logic can include program code enabled to identify a user of the social network associated with shared media selected for display in a media view to a requesting user and to generate a navigation view in a consistent location in a user interface to the social network irrespective of a page view rendered in the user interface, the view providing a link to a profile page for the identified user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Joan M. DiMicco, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Jodi M. Large, David R. Millen, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20120304973
    Abstract: An engine has a cylinder wherein a reciprocating piston is mounted. The piston drives, via a connecting rod (6), a crankshaft (7) pivotably mounted in a crankcase. The connecting rod is connected to the piston via a piston pin. An inlet window for combustion air is provided and controlled by the piston. The piston separates a combustion chamber from the crankcase interior space and has a piston base the underside of which is oriented toward the crankcase. To achieve good cooling of the piston and of the piston pin bearing, a first flow-guide element is provided within the crankcase interior space adjacent to the inlet window. The first flow-guide element redirects the combustion air flowing in through the inlet window in the direction of the underside of the piston base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Mark Reichler, Robert Köhli, Evelyn Kullik, Helmut Schlessmann
  • Publication number: 20120185779
    Abstract: A computer based system and method of audience-based suggestion for content creation in social media is disclosed. The content suggestor system and method receive user requests including title of content that the requester would be interested in viewing/reading. The system routes the request to any number of target users that would be likely to responsively create/upload such content, including both users the requester has deemed appropriate as well as any the system deems appropriate. A user interface displays topic requests to the target users (users the request was routed to). Upon content being uploaded in the global computer network in response to the request, the system notifies each requesting user. The content responsively created and uploaded may be in media different from the medium of the initial request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Scott H. Prager
  • Publication number: 20120179751
    Abstract: An online discussion recommendation system ranks and presents to users of a social media site discussions of interest preferably calculated through interest-matching. The discussion has many online posts. The system and method determine which post to present to the user as a sample snippet from such discussion using sentiment analysis. The sentiment of the snippet may be most polarized, sentiment matching the user's current mood, typical user sentiment, or others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyung-il Ahn, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, David R. Millen
  • Patent number: 8028022
    Abstract: A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, David R. Millen, Martin T. Moore, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20110146643
    Abstract: A two-stroke engine has a cylinder with a combustion chamber and a piston reciprocatingly supported in the cylinder. A crankshaft is rotatably supported in a crankcase and driven by the piston. At least one transfer passage connects the crankcase in at least one position of the piston with the combustion chamber and has a piston-controlled transfer port that opens into the combustion chamber and an opening that opens into the crankcase. A mixture inlet opens into the crankcase. An outlet is provided at the combustion chamber. The transfer port and the opening are displaced relative to each other in a circumferential direction of the cylinder. At least one wall section of the transfer passage forms an undercut when viewed from the crankcase in a direction of a longitudinal cylinder axis of the cylinder and is delimited by a separate component inserted into the cylinder from a side facing the crankcase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Helmut Zimmermann, Martin Leiendecker
  • Publication number: 20110146642
    Abstract: A two-stroke engine has a cylinder with a combustion chamber and a reciprocating piston for driving a crankshaft. Transfer passages connect the crankcase in at least one position of the piston with the combustion chamber and open by piston-controlled transfer ports into the combustion chamber. An inlet opens into the crankcase and an outlet is provided at the combustion chamber. The engine is dividable into four sectors parallel to a longitudinal cylinder axis. The transfer port of a first transfer passage is arranged in the first sector, the outlet is arranged in the second sector, the transfer port of a second transfer passage is provided in the third sector, and the inlet is arranged in the fourth sector. Within the cylinder the first and second transfer passages, at a spacing from a separation plane between cylinder and crankcase, pass together into one of the second and fourth sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Jörg Schlossarczyk
  • Patent number: 7921368
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a local user of an instant messaging system with updated status information regarding one or more remote users that provides indication to a local user of whether an instant messaging status message has been recently updated. The disclosed system provides a “new status message” visual indication when a status message for a remote user has recently changed. A timer may be employed to determine how long a new status message visual indication is provided after the status message has changed. The status message itself may be obtained by various specific techniques, such as hovering the cursor over a graphical object for a remote user associated with the new status indication, hovering over the new status indication itself, or clicking through the new status indication or associated graphical object, or through some other appropriate technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. Moody, Richard M. Wilson, Jonathan Feinberg, Werner Geyer
  • Publication number: 20110068487
    Abstract: A carburetor has a housing and an intake passage section disposed in the housing. A throttle element is arranged in the intake passage section and a choke element is arranged in the intake passage section upstream of the throttle element. At least one fuel opening opens downstream of the choke element into the intake passage section. A fuel valve controls a fuel quantity supplied to the at least one fuel opening. At least one auxiliary fuel port opens upstream of the choke element into the intake passage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Claus Naegele, Werner Geyer
  • Publication number: 20110041081
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for activity thread integration of an alert log. In one embodiment of the invention, an alert log activity thread integration method can be provided. The method can include logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread, and, in response to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread, displaying the content of the alert. For instance, logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread can include creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity and inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Muller, Michael C. Wu, Werner Geyer, Shilad W. Sen, Martin T. Moore, Elizabeth A. Brownholtz
  • Patent number: 7840596
    Abstract: A collaboration server is described that enables both real-time conferencing and content management. Thus, client applications can connect to the server to share data and collaborate in real-time. The server allows fine grained sharing of any type of content using generic shared objects (GSO). Each GSO holds one or more pieces of persistent information and defines a list of people who are allowed to access the information. Each GSO also represents a persistent conferencing session, i.e., if clients modify GSOs, modifications are broadcast to all the other clients on the list of the shared object if they are connected. The server also manages relationships between shared objects; i.e., shared objects could be contained in other shared objects or reference other shared objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Michael Muller, Elizabeth Anne Brownholtz, David Ryant Millen
  • Patent number: 7827501
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert bubble management and provide a method, data processing system and computer program product for interactive alert bubbles for alert bubble management. In one embodiment of the invention, an interactive alert bubble can be provided for an alert management data processing system. The interactive alert bubble can include an alert bubble interface to the interactive alert bubble. An alert text field can be disposed in the interface and configured to provide a reference to an alert notification in the alert management data processing system. Additionally, a rating control can be disposed in the interface and configured to establish a rating for the alert notification responsive to a selection of the rating control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Martin T. Moore, Michael Muller, Steven Ross, Shilad W. Sen, Michael C. Wu
  • Patent number: 7822848
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for activity thread integration of an alert log. In one embodiment of the invention, an alert log activity thread integration method can be provided. The method can include logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread, and, in response to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread, displaying the content of the alert. For instance, logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread can include creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity and inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Muller, Michael C. Wu, Werner Geyer, Shilad W. Sen, Martin T. Moore, Elizabeth A. Brownholtz
  • Patent number: 7730857
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a carburetor and an intake channel for supplying fuel and combustion air, wherein a section of the intake channel is formed in the carburetor. At least one fuel opening is provided that opens into the intake channel within the carburetor. The intake channel has an intake opening that is connected to a clean chamber of the air filter of the internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine takes in air through at least one filter element of the air filter. A choke element is arranged in the clean chamber and moveable into a choke position and into an open position. In the open position, the choke element shields the at least one filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Geyer, Björn Scherraus, Lukas Zürcher
  • Publication number: 20100113155
    Abstract: A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, David R. Millen, Martin T. Moore, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20090186330
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to profile generation for social networking systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for reusable ad hoc self-posed questions and answers for social network profiles. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for managing reusable ad hoc self-posed questions and answers for social network profiles can be provided. The method can include receiving a free form specification of a question and a corresponding answer by a particular user in a social network, posting the received question and corresponding answer onto a user profile for the particular user, selecting the received question for the particular user on behalf of a different user in the social network and prompting the different user to provide a different answer to the selected question, and posting the selected question and the different answer onto a user profile for the different user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Joan M. DiMicco, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, David R. Millen, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20090187865
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social networking and provide a method, system and computer program product for site-wide recent action management in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing system can be provided. The system can include a social networking application executing in a host server and generating different page views for different users of the social networking application. The system also can include a data store of recent actions for different ones of the users. Finally the system can include a site-wide navigation element displayed in each of the page views for each of the users irrespective of the page view and whether or not the page view is a home page or profile page. In particular, the element can include user links to different profile pages for different users with recent actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Joan M. DiMicco, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Jodi M. Large, David R. Millen, Michael Muller