Patents by Inventor William M. Quinn
William M. Quinn 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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Publication number: 20240116632Abstract: A recoil device is provided for a gun having a barrel with a breech. The device includes a breech nut, a brake assembly, a pneumatic spring and a counter-recoil buffer. The breech nut has first and second adjacent sides. The brake assembly includes a brake cylinder that mounts to the breech nut on the first side. The pneumatic spring mounts to the breech nut on the second side. The counter-recoil buffer attaches to the pneumatic spring. The brake cylinder and the pneumatic spring internally push fluids for recoil absorption and return in response to firing the gun.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Matthew Thomas Buckler, Michael M. Canaday, Thomas Klebert Houck, Jr., Gregory Noble Fish, William Michael McCoy, Nathan Arnold Lambert, Timothy Gerald Burcham, Xavier Anthony Quinn, Douglas Lawrence Ramers, Sabrina Hong-Yee Lau
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Patent number: 10084734Abstract: An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Fang Lu, Mark McGloin, Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 10061814Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 10042892Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Publication number: 20170344611Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Publication number: 20170316063Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9740746Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9613150Abstract: The present invention offers a component that enables the presenter to begin presenting the first pages of the document as they become available, without having to wait on the entire document to be processed. The present invention provides an approach that is used to monitor document processing as it taking place on a server. As each page is in the document is processed (e.g., converted), a monitoring component signals a controlling component to alert it of the specific progress events (e.g., a new page available). The controlling component can immediately interface with clients using a real-time communication component, for example letting users know when each single page is available for consumption. Once alerted, an informed client can signal all other clients which page to view.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jonathan R. Smith, Kyle M. Himmerick, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9571435Abstract: An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Fang Lu, Mark McGloin, Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9514190Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9473316Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to resource consumption in a clustered environment hosting an e-meeting and provide a method, system and computer program product for resource consumption reduction for an e-meeting via meeting affinity. In one embodiment of the invention, an e-meeting affinity method can be provided. In a clustered environment, the e-meeting affinity method can include identifying a clone supporting an e-meeting and having session affinity with a moderator to the e-meeting. The method further can include establishing session affinity between the clone and other participants to the e-meeting for requests relating to the e-meeting while permitting parallel session affinity to other clones for requests from the other participants not relating to the e-meeting.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Madhu K. Chetuparambil, James S. Johnston, Christopher D. Price, Brian L. Pulito, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9425973Abstract: A system for providing resource-based synchronization between clients in a Web-based real-time collaboration, in which a session front end on the server layers a transaction history on top of all session resources. HTTP operations are issued by client systems to request changes to session resources and to request session updates. The HTTP resource change requests include hierarchical pointers containing session identifiers and resource identifiers within a URL. The client generated resource change request operations may be HTTP PUT, HTTP DELETE, and HTTP POST commands. The HTTP session update request operations may be HTTP GET commands. A session front end stores each received resource change request operation in a resource-specific transaction history of change request operations received from all client systems. The session front end maintains a current session state indicating the number of resource change request operations stored for each session resource.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William M. Quinn, Ron E. Pontrich, Ramya Sethuraman, Christopher D. Price, Christopher A. Hyland, Aseel Aziz-Gomez
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Publication number: 20160103884Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9313273Abstract: The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for flexible image sharing. In a system for flexibly distributing imagery in an image sharing session, an image cache can be disposed between an application sharing host and a plurality of application sharing viewers. Additionally, a multipoint communications server can be disposed between the image cache and the application sharing viewers and can be communicatively linked to the application sharing host. Importantly, a pull-based subscription model can be implemented in an image cache server hosting the image cache. In particular, the model can have a configuration for registering respective ones of the application sharing viewers to receive notifications of available updated imagery.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Raymond Hornback, Jr., James S. Johnston, Mark S. Kressin, Matthew A. Levy, Andrew M. Ortwein, William M. Quinn, Kevin Solie
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Publication number: 20160087985Abstract: Access to online collaborative resources such as an online meeting, web conference, online chat room, an online video conference, an online audio conference, a collaboratively edited document, a collaborative browsing session, an online social networking group, or a web site is secured by providing a first user-specific URL to a first user for addressing collaborative resource; responsive to the first user accessing the first user-specific URL, granting by a computing system access to the collaborative event to the first user; and responsive to a second user accessing the first user-specific URL, preventing by a computing system access to the collaborative event to the second user. Optionally, time criteria for accessing the first user-specific URL may be used to invalidating the first user-specific URL, wherein access to the collaborative resource is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Douglas G. Hoard, William M. Quinn
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Publication number: 20160072749Abstract: An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Fang Lu, Mark McGloin, Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, William M. Quinn
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Publication number: 20160072747Abstract: An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Fang Lu, Mark McGloin, Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, William M. Quinn
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Publication number: 20160026629Abstract: A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Emmet R. Clifford, Stuart J. Clifford, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9219735Abstract: Access to online collaborative resources such as an online meeting, web conference, online chat room, an online video conference, an online audio conference, a collaboratively edited document, a collaborative browsing session, an online social networking group, or a web site is secured by providing a first user-specific URL to a first user for addressing collaborative resource; responsive to the first user accessing the first user-specific URL, granting by a computing system access to the collaborative event to the first user; and responsive to a second user accessing the first user-specific URL, preventing by a computing system access to the collaborative event to the second user. Optionally, time criteria for accessing the first user-specific URL may be used to invalidating the first user-specific URL, wherein access to the collaborative resource is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Douglas G. Hoard, William M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9166979Abstract: Access to online collaborative resources such as an online meeting, web conference, online chat room, an online video conference, an online audio conference, a collaboratively edited document, a collaborative browsing session, an online social networking group, or a web site is secured by providing a first user-specific URL to a first user for addressing collaborative resource; responsive to the first user accessing the first user-specific URL, granting by a computing system access to the collaborative event to the first user; and responsive to a second user accessing the first user-specific URL, preventing by a computing system access to the collaborative event to the second user. Optionally, time criteria for accessing the first user-specific URL may be used to invalidating the first user-specific URL, wherein access to the collaborative resource is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Douglas G. Hoard, William M. Quinn