Patents by Inventor Arthur R. Francis

Arthur R. Francis 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: 7877443
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for web conference participant display render acknowledgment. The method comprises: providing shared information to at least one participant of a web conference; determining a screen rendering status of the shared information in a web browser of each participant of the web conference; obtaining the screen rendering status of the shared information from each participant; and displaying information regarding the screen rendering status of the shared information to a moderator of the web conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Fonda Daniels, Arthur R. Francis, Martin J. Presler-Marshall
  • Patent number: 7836395
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for transforming Java Server Pages (JSPs) into pervasive computing (PvC) device specific JSPs. An original JSP is parsed for JSP tags. The JSP tags are converted to HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) comment tags. The JSP is then transformed into a PvC device specific JSP by converting the HTML tags in the JSP to HTML tags for a specific PvC device. The HTML comment tags are then parsed for the comment tags having embedded JSP tags. The JSP tags are then restored by removing the HTML comment tag identifiers. A PvC device specific JSP is thus created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Brad B. Topol
  • Patent number: 7783469
    Abstract: A simulated collaborative mix workload for determining the performance of enterprise software includes a combination of mail, instant messaging, electronic meetings, documents, and electronic learning. The workload is generated by executing a team spaces path, documents path, learning path, messaging path, web conference path, or various combinations thereof. The team spaces path generates a simulated discussion with team members and generates a search query for locating a forum within the team space. The documents path generates a library search to locate, open, and read the document, and generates a simulated chat about the document. The learning path launches a simulated course and assessment activity. The messaging path reads a simulated email, attaches a document thereto, and sends the email. The web conference path generates a web conference attended by a plurality of simulated users. At least one of the workload tasks is performed more than once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Scott H. Snyder, Stephen T. King, Susan S. Hanis
  • Publication number: 20100088364
    Abstract: Social networking content can be served to a set of social networking users. The served social networking content can include semantic content associated with specific ones of the social networking users. The semantic content can be shared among different ones of the social networking users during the serving. At least a portion of the semantic content can be stored within a local data store associated with a computing device of the specific user to whom the semantic content applies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: BERNADETTE A. CARTER, ARTHUR R. FRANCIS
  • Patent number: 7647193
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for authenticating a pharmaceutical product is provided. The method includes receiving an identifier and a quantity for the pharmaceutical product and receiving a photonic signal from the pharmaceutical product, wherein the photonic signal includes a frequency and amplitude. The method can further include searching for the identifier and quantity that was received in a predefined list comprising identifier-quantity pairs, wherein a frequency and amplitude corresponds to each identifier-quantity pair. The method can further include matching the identifier and quantity that was received to a first identifier-quantity pair in the list. The method can further include storing a record indicating that the pharmaceutical product is counterfeit if the frequency and amplitude of the photonic signal does not match the frequency and amplitude corresponding to the first identifier-quantity pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Ruthie D. Lyle, Veronique L. Moses, Denny Pichardo
  • Publication number: 20090187364
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for authenticating a pharmaceutical product is provided. The method includes receiving an identifier and a quantity for the pharmaceutical product and receiving a photonic signal from the pharmaceutical product, wherein the photonic signal includes a frequency and amplitude. The method can further include searching for the identifier and quantity that was received in a predefined list comprising identifier-quantity pairs, wherein a frequency and amplitude corresponds to each identifier-quantity pair. The method can further include matching the identifier and quantity that was received to a first identifier-quantity pair in the list. The method can further include storing a record indicating that the pharmaceutical product is counterfeit if the frequency and amplitude of the photonic signal does not match the frequency and amplitude corresponding to the first identifier-quantity pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Ruthie D. Lyle, Veronique L. Moses, Denny Pichardo
  • Publication number: 20090144297
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visual display of tags and provide a method, system and computer program product for contributor characteristic based tag clouds. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag cloud generation method can include loading tags for resources in a social bookmarking system, determining a personal characteristic for each of the end users applying the tags to the resources, and rendering a tag cloud for the tags based upon the personal characteristic of the end users and not based upon the frequency of use of the tags alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis, Veronique L. Moses
  • Patent number: 7490132
    Abstract: A system for managing chat histories of online discussions includes a computer terminal including software. The software, when executed, causes the system to generate a transcript of an electronic discussion between at least two participants, and selectively save the transcript on the computer terminal of one of the participants. The computer terminal of the participant upon which the transcript is saved establishes a local computer terminal and the computer terminal of the other participant establishes a remote computer terminal. The system then prompts the participant saving the transcript to provide a tag. The tag is designated as either a public tag or a private tag. The public tag is associated with the local computer terminal and the remote computer terminal while the private tag is associated with only the local computer terminal. The software, when executed, then causes the system to incorporate the tag into the transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis
  • Publication number: 20080313665
    Abstract: The invention discloses a product, method and system for dynamically tuning the “default” television (TV) channel displayed during activation of a television set, which can be individually programmed by the viewer (i.e., the “default” or current choice) or automatically selected by determining the TV station(s) and/or program(s) that are most popular or important to that viewer (i.e., based on a collective viewing audience such as through use of social networking techniques).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Veronique Le Shan Tice Moses
  • Publication number: 20080309484
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for detecting an explosive mixture. A potentially hazardous material is embedded with molecules where these molecules are used for identifying individual cells. Upon scanning the potentially hazardous material, the embedded molecules give off light or sonar signatures as output. The output of these molecules is read by a reader which is used to identify the type of material as well as the amount of the material. This information is stored and correlated with the passenger carrying the identified material and the passenger's flight information. A security alert is generated if there is a combination of amounts of potentially hazardous materials previously identified with the amount of potentially hazardous material currently identified that together would be classified as an explosive device where these potentially hazardous materials are to be carried by individual(s) on the same flight(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Ruthie D. Lyle, Veronique Le Shan Tice Moses, Denny Pichardo
  • Publication number: 20080201645
    Abstract: A Portal Page Customizer (PPC) provides a tagging component and a portal page generator that enables a user to quickly display portlets most preferred by a community of portlet users. Each tag is associated with one or more portlet. A user can add new descriptive tags to portlets using tools on the portal page. When a user selects a tag from a tag cloud, the PPC displays portlets associated with the selected tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Ruthie D. Lyle, Veronique L. Moses, Denny Pichardo
  • Publication number: 20080167840
    Abstract: Generating a simulated collaborative mix workload for determining the performance of enterprise software executed on a hardware platform. The collaborative mix workload includes a combination of mail, instant messaging, electronic meetings, documents, and electronic learning. The workload is generated by executing a team spaces path, documents path, learning path, messaging path, web conference path, or various combinations thereof. The team spaces path generates a simulated discussion with team members and generates a search query for locating a forum within the team space. The documents path generates a library search to locate a document, opens the document, reads the document, and generates a simulated chat about the document. The learning path launches a simulated course and assessment activity. The messaging path reads a simulated email, attaches a document to the email, and sends the email with the attached document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Scott H. Snyder, Stephen T. King, Susan S. Hanis
  • Patent number: 7383310
    Abstract: A method of managing chat history on online discussions includes generating a transcript of an electronic discussion between at least two participants and selectively saving the transcript on a computer terminal of one of the at least two participants. The one of the at least two participants saving the transcript establishes a local computer terminal and the other of the at least two participants establishes a remote computer terminal. The one of the at least two participants saving the transcript is prompted to provide a tag. The tag is either a public tag or a private tag. The public tag is associated with the local computer terminal and the remote computer terminal, and the private tag is associated with only the local computer terminal. Once chosen, the tag is incorporated into the transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis
  • Publication number: 20080096532
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for emotional state integrated messaging. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for emotional state message integration can be provided. The method can include receiving a message from a message composer and detecting meta-data associated with the message. The method further can include retrieving emotional state information from the meta-data and rendering the message. Finally, the method can include processing the emotional state information in association with the rendering of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Arthur R. Francis, Morgan L. Johnson, Veronique Moses
  • Patent number: 6643708
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for using fully qualified universal resource locators (URLs) to chain together servlets across multiple remotely located Java® Virtual Machines (JVMs) in a network in order to implement application partitioning across the network. Each servlet in a chain is configured to perform a respective processing task using a response from a preceding servlet in the chain. A fully qualified URL includes an identification of a host computer, an identification of a filter within the host computer, and an identification of a servlet residing within the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur R. Francis, Donald Washburn