Patents by Inventor Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin

Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin 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).

  • Patent number: 8244568
    Abstract: A scheduling system includes a client calendar application that a meeting organizer employs to send a request for free time form to prospective participants of a future meeting via email. The client calendar application receives completed request for participant free time forms back from the prospective participants via email. The client calendar application parses the completed free time forms and determines a consensus free time when all prospective participants are free for the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph G. Baron, Frank Battaglia, Jerrold Martin Heyman, Michael Leonard Nelson, Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin
  • Patent number: 8010656
    Abstract: A calendar system includes a calendar requester client and a calendar owner client that couple to a calendar server via one or more networks therebetween. In one embodiment, when the calendar server denies a particular calendar requester access to the calendar owner's calendar, the calendar server transmits a denial notice to the calendar owner and allows the calendar owner to dynamically add the particular calendar requester to a list of approved requesters on the calendar server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph G. Baron, Frank Battaglia, Jerrold Martin Heyman, Michael Leonard Nelson, Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin
  • Publication number: 20090063239
    Abstract: An electronic calendar scheduling system is disclosed in which a participant schedules an event in a particular timeslot. In one embodiment, the participant may associate a timeslot importance level with the particular timeslot. When a requester later sends the participant a request to schedule another event during the already scheduled particular timeslot, the system informs the requester that the particular timeslot is either available or unavailable depending on the importance of the requester in a predetermined organization hierarchy. In one embodiment, if the requester importance level is greater than the timeslot importance level, then the system informs the requester that the already scheduled timeslot is available. Otherwise, the system informs the requester that the already scheduled timeslot is unavailable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph G. Baron, Frank Battaglia, Jerrold Martin Heyman, Michael Leonard Nelson, Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin
  • Publication number: 20090018878
    Abstract: A scheduling system includes a client calendar application that a meeting organizer employs to send a request for free time form to prospective participants of a future meeting via email. The client calendar application receives completed request for participant free time forms back from the prospective participants via email. The client calendar application parses the completed free time forms and determines a consensus free time when all prospective participants are free for the meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph G. Baron, Frank Battaglia, Jerrold Martin Heyman, Michael Leonard Nelson, Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin
  • Publication number: 20090019050
    Abstract: A calendar system includes a calendar requester client and a calendar owner client that couple to a calendar server via one or more networks therebetween. In one embodiment, when the calendar server denies a particular calendar requester access to the calendar owner's calendar, the calendar server transmits a denial notice to the calendar owner and allows the calendar owner to dynamically add the particular calendar requester to a list of approved requesters on the calendar server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph G. Baron, Frank Battaglia, Jerrold Martin Heyman, Michael Leonard Nelson, Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin