Patents by Inventor Amit Jaysukhlal Shah

Amit Jaysukhlal Shah 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).

  • Controlling access to documents by parties
    Patent number: 9323751
    Abstract: Access to documents by parties can be controlled as follows. First, access can be controlled in accordance with access counters associated with the parties, where the documents have one or more versions. Second, access can be controlled in accordance with access levels associated with the parties. The access level of each party is one of a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third, and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. Third, access can be controlled in accordance with placement of organizations within a hierarchy of organizations, where the parties are organized over the organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Manikandan Dharamarajan, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Linh Hue Lam, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy, Amit Jaysukhlal Shah
  • CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS BY PARTIES
    Publication number: 20090228311
    Abstract: Access to documents by parties can be controlled as follows. First, access can be controlled in accordance with access counters associated with the parties, where the documents have one or more versions. Second, access can be controlled in accordance with access levels associated with the parties. The access level of each party is one of a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third, and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. Third, access can be controlled in accordance with placement of organizations within a hierarchy of organizations, where the parties are organized over the organizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Manikandan Dharamarajan, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Linh Hue Lam, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy, Amit Jaysukhlal Shah