Patents by Inventor Alena Kucharenka

Alena Kucharenka 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).

  • Identifying and using textual widgets
    Patent number: 8543913
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method and system for accessing textual widgets. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: entering a string expression into a document; invoking a spell-checker to check a spelling of the string expression; marking the string expression as misspelled; identifying a textual widget based on the misspelling of the string expression; evaluating the misspelled string expression using the identified textual widget, the identified textual widget returning at least one result of the evaluation; displaying the at least one result of the evaluation; selecting a result of the evaluation; and replacing the string expression in the document with the selected result of the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. McCloskey, Alena Kucharenka, Pavel Volkov, Carol S. Zimmet
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING TEXTUAL WIDGETS
    Publication number: 20100100816
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method and system for accessing textual widgets. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: entering a string expression into a document; invoking a spell-checker to check a spelling of the string expression; marking the string expression as misspelled; identifying a textual widget based on the misspelling of the string expression; evaluating the misspelled string expression using the identified textual widget, the identified textual widget returning at least one result of the evaluation; displaying the at least one result of the evaluation; selecting a result of the evaluation; and replacing the string expression in the document with the selected result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Daniel J. McCloskey, Alena Kucharenka, Pavel Volkov, Carol S. Zimmet