Patents by Inventor Barry N. Dow

Barry N. Dow 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: 10839324
    Abstract: Task handling in a master data management (MDM) system. A task pattern associated with a task completed is identified, in a task handling system. If the identified task pattern matches an existing task pattern in a task patterns database, then a pattern count value of the matching existing task pattern is incremented, and the task patterns database is searched for task patterns that are similar to the matching existing task pattern. If similar task patterns are identified, for each of the similar task patterns, a duplicate pattern count is specified that is based on the number of identified similar task patterns. If the duplicate pattern count for any one of the similar task patterns exceeds a specified threshold, a new task is created comprising data on completion actions for the matching existing task pattern and each of the one or more similar task patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Jonathan Limburn
  • Patent number: 10832186
    Abstract: Task handling in a master data management (MDM) system. A task pattern associated with a task completed is identified, in a task handling system. If the identified task pattern matches an existing task pattern in a task patterns database, then a pattern count value of the matching existing task pattern is incremented, and the task patterns database is searched for task patterns that are similar to the matching existing task pattern. If similar task patterns are identified, for each of the similar task patterns, a duplicate pattern count is specified that is based on the number of identified similar task patterns. If the duplicate pattern count for any one of the similar task patterns exceeds a specified threshold, a new task is created comprising data on completion actions for the matching existing task pattern and each of the one or more similar task patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Jonathan Limburn
  • Publication number: 20170278043
    Abstract: Task handling in a master data management (MDM) system. A task pattern associated with a task completed is identified, in a task handling system. If the identified task pattern matches an existing task pattern in a task patterns database, then a pattern count value of the matching existing task pattern is incremented, and the task patterns database is searched for task patterns that are similar to the matching existing task pattern. If similar task patterns are identified, for each of the similar task patterns, a duplicate pattern count is specified that is based on the number of identified similar task patterns. If the duplicate pattern count for any one of the similar task patterns exceeds a specified threshold, a new task is created comprising data on completion actions for the matching existing task pattern and each of the one or more similar task patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Jonathan Limburn
  • Publication number: 20170270460
    Abstract: Task handling in a master data management (MDM) system. A task pattern associated with a task completed is identified, in a task handling system. If the identified task pattern matches an existing task pattern in a task patterns database, then a pattern count value of the matching existing task pattern is incremented, and the task patterns database is searched for task patterns that are similar to the matching existing task pattern. If similar task patterns are identified, for each of the similar task patterns, a duplicate pattern count is specified that is based on the number of identified similar task patterns. If the duplicate pattern count for any one of the similar task patterns exceeds a specified threshold, a new task is created comprising data on completion actions for the matching existing task pattern and each of the one or more similar task patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Jonathan Limburn
  • Patent number: 9602662
    Abstract: An aspect includes verifying a telephone caller origin carried out at a security application. The verifying includes activating a security process during an active telephone call to a user received at a first call identifier, accessing registered user service providers to obtain contact details of a registered service provider purporting to be the origin of the active telephone call, and sending a query to the obtained contact details of the registered service provider. The query includes the first call identifier. The verifying also includes receiving a returned query result confirming or denying that the telephone call is from the registered service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Peter J. Johnson, Fenglian Xu
  • Publication number: 20160366091
    Abstract: Email thread sequence management includes monitoring outgoing email messages of an email server and creating a metadata record for an email thread of multiple email messages relating to a subject, where the metadata record includes an entry of metadata for each email message in the email thread, and where each entry has a sequence number. A sequence number is added to an outgoing email message according to the sequence number of the email message in the metadata record for the email thread. The method further includes receiving a request for a missing email message in the email thread from a recipient, checking the metadata record for email thread for the missing email message for the recipient, and retrieving the missing email message from a different recipient or the sender of the email message for forwarding to the requesting recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy J. Baldwin, Barry N. Dow, Andrew Johnson, Peter J. Johnson, Fenglian Xu
  • Publication number: 20150271327
    Abstract: An aspect includes verifying a telephone caller origin carried out at a security application. The verifying includes activating a security process during an active telephone call to a user received at a first call identifier, accessing registered user service providers to obtain contact details of a registered service provider purporting to be the origin of the active telephone call, and sending a query to the obtained contact details of the registered service provider. The query includes the first call identifier. The verifying also includes receiving a returned query result confirming or denying that the telephone call is from the registered service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Peter J. Johnson, Fenglian Xu
  • Patent number: 8904018
    Abstract: A server computer receives a user identifier from a user computer web browser program. The server computer identifies one or more uncompleted tasks associated with the user identifier that can be completed from the user computer via the user computer web browser program. The server computer then transmits to the user computer one or more universal resource locators (URLs) associated with the one or more uncompleted task, and the user computer provides access to the web pages referenced by the one or more URLs via the user computer web browser program. In certain embodiments, the server computer identifies the one or more uncompleted tasks by accessing a database that includes uncompleted tasks by user identifier and a URL associated with each uncompleted task. In other embodiments, the server updates the database when an uncompleted task associated with a user identifier is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Jonathan Limburn
  • Publication number: 20130198260
    Abstract: A server computer receives a user identifier from a user computer web browser program. The server computer identifies one or more uncompleted tasks associated with the user identifier that can be completed from the user computer via the user computer web browser program. The server computer then transmits to the user computer one or more universal resource locators (URLs) associated with the one or more uncompleted task, and the user computer provides access to the web pages referenced by the one or more URLs via the user computer web browser program. In certain embodiments, the server computer identifies the one or more uncompleted tasks by accessing a database that includes uncompleted tasks by user identifier and a URL associated with each uncompleted task. In other embodiments, the server updates the database when an uncompleted task associated with a user identifier is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry N. Dow, Jonathan Limburn