Patents by Inventor Alfred Zollar

Alfred Zollar 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).

  • Trust and identity in secure calendar sharing collaboration
    Patent number: 8261329
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system includes a database of trust information that internalizes security and trust relationships between a first entity and a second entity in regards to scheduling, and a central trust manager operable to determine from the database of trust information whether a trust relationship exists between a first organization and a second organization, the central trust manager also being operable to provide availability information of a user of the first organization to a second user of the second organization, the central trust manager also being operable to determine whether the second user of the second organization is granted access to requested calendar data and the central trust manager also being operable to provide the requested calendar data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Gurney, Carol A Jones, Anthony J Nadalin, Nataraj Nagaratnam, John J Rawls, Robert L. Yates, Alfred Zollar
  • TRUST AND IDENTITY IN SECURE CALENDAR SHARING COLLABORATION
    Publication number: 20100306824
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system includes a database of trust information that internalizes security and trust relationships between a first entity and a second entity in regards to scheduling, and a central trust manager operable to determine from the database of trust information whether a trust relationship exists between a first organization and a second organization, the central trust manager also being operable to provide availability information of a user of the first organization to a second user of the second organization, the central trust manager also being operable to determine whether the second user of the second organization is granted access to requested calendar data and the central trust manager also being operable to provide the requested calendar data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Gurney, Carol A. Jones, Anthony J. Nadalin, Nataraj Nagaratnam, John J. Rawls, Robert L. Yates, Alfred Zollar