Patents Represented by Attorney Carpenter & Assoc.
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Patent number: 7499535Abstract: Connecting a meeting room telephone to a conference call, including: parsing a user's calendar entry to determine a room where a conference is scheduled, a meeting start time, and a conference call telephone number; querying a room reservation system for a telephone number for a meeting room telephone; waiting until detecting an attendee entering the room; in response to the attendee, other than a meeting chairperson, entering, connecting the telephone to the call with a participant passcode, other that a chairperson passcode; and detecting the chairperson entering the room, and in response thereto, automatically re-dialing the number and/or renegotiating the call utilizing the chairperson passcode; if the telephone is not connected to the call when the chairperson enters the room, automatically detecting that the chairperson has entered the room and, in response thereto, connecting the telephone to the call utilizing the chairperson passcode.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Ivory, Aaron K. Shook, Erik J. Burckart
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Patent number: 7500132Abstract: A method of asynchronously transmitting data from a first clock domain to a second clock domain by transmitting the data from the first domain to a first register; after a first period of time, transmitting the data from the first register to a second register; after a second period of time, transmitting the data from the second register to a third register; and after a third period of time, transmitting the data from the third register to the second clock domain, where the first clock domain operates at a first frequency C1, and the second clock domain operates at a second frequency C2, C1 being faster than C2; and where: the first period of time is determined by C1; and the second and third periods of time are determined by a third frequency C3 that is greater than and a whole number multiple of C2.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Anil Pothireddy, Kirtish Karlekar, Grant D. Wheeler
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Patent number: 7489475Abstract: A tape drive, including: a housing including a single character display that displays a single character at a time; and an activator configured such that, when the single character display displays a single character representative of a status of the tape drive, activation of the activator causes the tape drive to further represent the status represented by the single character as information including a plurality of words detailing the status, the information provided by repeatedly spelling out a message, including the plurality of words describing the status of the tape drive, one letter at a time on the single character display, and an audible message provider that provides an audible message, including the plurality of words describing the status of the tape drive.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Allen K. Bates, Daniel J. Winarski, Nhan X. Bui, Octaviano G. Gomez
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Patent number: 7475120Abstract: Removing attachments from sent e-mails, including: providing a selectable e-mail setting to delete attachments from copies of e-mails saved in a sent folder on an e-mail server, such that a user is provided with choices as to when attachments are to be deleted; the e-mail user selecting whether attachments are automatically deleted prior to saving sent e-mails or selecting a specific amount of time before the attachments are automatically deleted; the e-mail user composing an e-mail and attaching at least one attachment to the e-mail; sending the e-mail with the at least one attachment to at least one other user; saving a copy of the e-mail in the sent folder either (a) without saving any of the at least one attachment, or (b) with the at least one attachment, and then deleting the at least one attachment after the specific amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Khanh V. Ngo, Shannon H. Chang, Jose G. Miranda Gavillan, Angqin Bai
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Patent number: 7463147Abstract: Identifying abandoned shopping carts, including: providing shopping carts with locators; associating store areas with zone identifications, and providing store aisles with readers for the locators; associating carts with at least one zone; identifying carts and determining that carts entered new zones; determining an amount of time carts are in zones, and when carts are in an unassociated zone for a specified time, designating carts as abandoned and alerting personnel.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher M. Laffoon, Travis M. Grigsby, Viswanath Srikanth, Craig W. Chaney, Kathryn J. Lemanski
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Patent number: 7460883Abstract: A cellular telephone system that is part of a call network, includes: a first, second, and at least a third cellular telephones; the first cellular telephone including a first button for activating a call to the second telephone and at least a second button for activating a call to the at least third telephone, the first telephone further including green and red color coding of each of the first button and at least the second button such that a closest one of either (a) the second telephone, or (b) a closest one of the at least a third telephone, will have a button indicated by green coding and other button(s) by red; and where the first telephone can query the call network for the location of said closest cellular telephone, closest measured by at least one of geographically, by driving time, and by driving distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gerald F. McBrearty, Johnny M. Shieh, Susann M. Keohane, Jessica C. Murillo, Shawn P. Mullen
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Patent number: 7453441Abstract: A method of illuminating a computer keyboard, including: providing a keyboard with individually illuminatable keys; probabilistically determining the most likely key(s) that would be pressed next; illuminating the key(s) that are determined to be most likely pressed next while leaving keys probabilistically least likely to be pressed next unilluminated, an electronic dictionary is utilized to determine keys likely needed and the dictionary suggests keys based on running applications such that, if a calculator is running, numeric keys are illuminated and if a word processor is running, alphabet and related keys are illuminated; updating the electronic dictionary to include new words; disabling selective illumination when filling identification and password fields; providing disabling and enabling options; after time when none of the suggested keys have been pressed, automatically illuminating all keys; after additional time when none of all illuminated keys have been pressed, unilluminating all of the keys.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dario Iorfida, Sandro Piccinini
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Patent number: 7452570Abstract: Probe-based lithography, including: depositing a preceramic polymer on a substrate; writing nanoscale features in the polymer by locally transforming the preceramic polymer via a chemical reaction causing it to undergo a permanent phase change into hardened, ceramic material, the chemical reaction activated with a prescribed activation energy supplied by heat and/or pressure applied by a probe tip; then depositing new layers and continuing according to a desired three-dimensional pattern; either by (a) removing unactivated preceramic polymer utilizing a removal solvent, or (b) cross-linking unactivated preceramic polymer to act as a support medium that isolates a formed ceramic structure mechanically and/or electrically; and where the ceramic pattern is made electrically conductive by (a) incorporating dopant elements into or onto the preceramic polymer, or (b) performing the write step in a chemically-active environment that supplies dopant atoms during the chemical reaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2008Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rachel Cannara, Bernd W. Gotsmann, Urs T. Duerig, Harish Bhaskaran, Armin W. Knoll
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Multi-stage heat absorbing reactor and process for SCR of NOx and for oxidation of elemental mercury
Patent number: 7438876Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction apparatus has at least first and last catalyst layers in series for reducing nitrogen oxides in a flue gas, at least one interstage heat exchanger located after the first layer and before the last layer, that lowers flue gas temperature, and that acts as a mixing body to lower the standard deviation of the NH3/NO ratio entering catalyst layers after the first catalyst layer, thus providing better consumption of both ammonia and NOx in the reactor than would be achieved in the absence of the at least one interstage heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Inventor: J. Edward Cichanowicz -
Patent number: 7406259Abstract: A method for turning on the power of a camera or camcorder includes storing the camera or camcorder in an unattached enclosure, the enclosure having at least one radio-frequency identification tag that sends a wireless signal that identifies if the enclosure is closed or at least partially open, and the camera or camcorder having a radio frequency identification tag sensor that can sense whether the tag identifies that the enclosure is closed or at least partially; unfastening a fastener or unzipping a zipper on the enclosure, changing the state of the enclosure from closed to at least partially open; the sensor sensing that the state has changed to at least partially open; then automatically turning the power on to the camera or camcorder regardless of the light level inside and outside of the enclosure; and then removing the camera or camcorder from the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Robert D. Wilhelm