Patents by Inventor Alfredo Alba

Alfredo Alba 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).

  • Publication number: 20080177892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the configurable real time transformation of dissimilar data sources, the method further consisting of the steps of acquiring real time information pertaining to at least one data source, wherein the information comprises reference information that is associated with the data source, data transformation specification information that is associated with the data source, and scheduled event specification information that is associated with the data source, and maintaining the data source information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alfredo Alba
  • Publication number: 20070282799
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system, and service of analyzing electronic documents in an intranet, where the intranet includes a plurality of web sites. In an exemplary embodiment, the method, system, and service include (1) crawling HTML content and text content in a set of the sites, (2) deep-scanning non-HTML content and non-text content in the set of sites, (3) reverse-scanning the set of sites, (4) performing a semantic analysis of the crawled content and the deep-scanned content, (5) correlating the results of the semantic analysis with the results of the reverse-scanning, and (6) comparing user navigation patterns and content from the members of the set of sites. In a further embodiment, the method, system, and service further include combining the results of the performing, the results of the correlating, and the results of the comparing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: ALFREDO ALBA, VARUN BHAGWAN, DANIEL FREDERICK GRUHL, SAVITHA SRINIVASAN