Patents by Inventor Alena Shunkevich

Alena Shunkevich 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).

  • User interface construction
    Patent number: 9141405
    Abstract: A system and method for constructing a graphical user interface for an application being accessed by a user are provided. The method includes measuring the user's current work rate, deriving a threshold from the user's current work rate, determining the user's current activity within the application, assigning a value to the user's current activity, accessing a model for the application, the model defining links between activities within the application, assigning values to activities linked within the accessed model to the user's current activity, and displaying a control element in a graphical user interface for each activity with a value above the derived threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Brown, David T. G. Drakard, Christopher Knott, Henning Lueke, Anthony P. Papageorgiou, Alena Shunkevich
  • User Interface Construction
    Publication number: 20120159362
    Abstract: A system and method for constructing a graphical user interface for an application being accessed by a user are provided. The method includes measuring the user's current work rate, deriving a threshold from the user's current work rate, determining the user's current activity within the application, assigning a value to the user's current activity, accessing a model for the application, the model defining links between activities within the application, assigning values to activities linked within the accessed model to the user's current activity, and displaying a control element in a graphical user interface for each activity with a value above the derived threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Brown, David T. G. Drakard, Christopher Knott, Henning Lueke, Anthony P. Papageorgiou, Alena Shunkevich