Patents by Inventor Beatrice Coulomb

Beatrice Coulomb 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: 20090217176
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for managing meeting conflicts using user defined priority within a electronic calendar application, and providing history of meeting invitations. When a new meeting is being scheduled, if a conflict exists, the user may set a priority to the meeting. On reschedule or suppress meeting, a priority of overlapped meetings are automatically updated and acceptance is generated for meeting becoming in higher priority. A GUI allows user to modify priority of meetings at any time (accept and “decline with keep me informed” are automatically generated according to new priority).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Beatrice Coulomb, Jean-Luc Collet, Gerard Marmigere, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20090216595
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for managing an individual meeting within a team. Exemplary embodiments include a method for managing individual meetings for all attendees of a team, the method including storing individual times slots for each attendee, determining a maximum number of time slots, for each available attendee saving a time slot count, for each time slot saving an eligible attendee count, allocating slots in which one attendee has a free time, setting remaining time slots as busy, decrementing an eligible attendee count and determining if the maximum number of time slots has been reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Beatrice Coulomb, Olivier Foncarnier, Gerard Mamigere, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20080189616
    Abstract: A method for managing speaker notes in a slide presentation is disclosed. A method for creating a plurality of speaker notes files to be used in support of a slide presentation includes: creating a first speaker notes file including a first plurality of speaker notes instances to be used each respectfully in support of one slide among a plurality of slides of the slide presentation; creating a second speaker notes file including a second plurality of speaker notes instances to be used each respectfully in support of one slide among the plurality of slides of the slide presentation, wherein the first and second speaker notes files are grouped in a speaker notes component; and creating links between the slide presentation and the first or second speaker notes file to allow a respective first or second speaker notes instance to be used in support of the one slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Beatrice Coulomb, Olivier Foncarnier, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20080147746
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying specific locations where to attach or detach e-mail attachments based on e-mail storage locations is disclosed. The method allows to search in a mail-attachment connection table all the attachment locations that are in relation to the e-mail where the attachment is to be attached to or to be detached from and to present to a user all attachment locations that have a relevance for the attach/detach operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Beatrice Coulomb, Gerard Marmigere, Carole Truntschka
  • Patent number: 7380211
    Abstract: A system and method for managing speaker notes in a slide presentation is disclosed. Preferably, the invention operates in a computer implemented slide presentation product. Particularly, a system for creating a plurality of speaker notes files to be used in support of a slide presentation comprises means for creating a first speaker notes file including a first speaker notes instance to be used in support of one slide of the slide presentation and means for creating at least a second speaker notes file including a second speaker notes instance. Links are created between the slide presentation and the at least second speaker notes file to allow the at least second speaker notes instance to be used in support of the one slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Beatrice Coulomb, Olivier Foncarnier, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20080091734
    Abstract: A method and system for filing electronic mails is disclosed. The method executed on the client side of a mail application allows to propose to a user a list of relevant folders that have been previously used to store e-mails in relation with the current e-mail to be stored. The relationship between the e-mail is determined by analyzing the content of different message fields of the e-mail header.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Beatrice Coulomb, Gerard Marmigere, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20080040435
    Abstract: A method and system for personalizing e-mail signatures is disclosed. A method for generating personalized signed electronic mails to be sent from a client side to a server side of an electronic mail (e-mail) application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: creating a plurality of recipient categories; associating e-mail application environment information with the plurality of recipient categories to create a set of conditional rules; using the set of conditional rules to create a plurality of signatures; creating an e-mail having a recipient address and message text, inserted in a respective address field and text field; searching the plurality of signatures to find a signature matching the recipient address; and transmitting the e-mail to the recipient address with the matching signature inserted in a signature field of the e-mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Giovanni Buschi, Beatrice Coulomb, Apollonie Sbragia, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20070130266
    Abstract: A method of processing a plurality of electronic mail files is disclosed, wherein each electronic mail file includes a subject field having one or more strings comprising the steps of establishing a list of strings, checking the first string in the subject field of each electronic mail file to determine whether the first string matches any of the strings in the list, removing any first strings that match a string in the list and replacing the first string elsewhere in the subject field, and sorting the electronic mail files according to their subject field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Beatrice Coulomb, Stephane Lebrun, Gerard Marmigere, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20060224514
    Abstract: A method and system for providing, storing and managing a user profile. A user profile is originally stored in a central storage repository which can then be accessed by many different providers. After appropriate authentication the user profile can then be downloaded to the provider sites. This means a user does not have to enter their details many times when accessing and using different providers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Buschi, Beatrice Coulomb, Dimitris Gibault, Christophe Palaysi
  • Publication number: 20060206353
    Abstract: A system and method for intelligent queue management uses a virtual destination locator to guide any queue members with pre-allocated final destination assignment. The guiding arranges the queue members into a sequence and then guides them to the final destination by moving the virtual destination location in accordance with the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Buschi, Beatrice Coulomb, Dimitris Gibault, Christophe Palaysi
  • Publication number: 20060123413
    Abstract: A method is provided for detecting and storing all the actions performed, and modifications made to the Windows Registry and file system of a first computer, during the installation of a software application thereon. The data are collated into a single package for subsequent export to a second computer. On receipt of the package by the second computer the process of installing the software application is re-enacted on the second computer using the data stored in the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Collet, Beatrice Coulomb, Sophie Martin, Carole Truntschka
  • Publication number: 20060090210
    Abstract: A method, system and computer readable program on a medium for masking a window or a visible part of a window during a copy screen or copy window operation which: provides a primitive to indicate to a window manager whether or not the window comprises information to be copy protected. defines a new window attribute to indicate non-copyability of the window. updates window attributes when this window is copy protected: masks all or part of the window content when the window is no longer active, so that protected information on this window is no longer visible, and displays the original window content when the window becomes active again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Jean-Luc Collet, Beatrice Coulomb, Gerard Marmigere
  • Publication number: 20050193323
    Abstract: A system and method for managing speaker notes in a slide presentation is disclosed. Preferably, the invention operates in a computer implemented slide presentation product. Particularly, a system for creating a plurality of speaker notes files to be used in support of a slide presentation comprises means for creating a first speaker notes file including a first speaker notes instance to be used in support of one slide of the slide presentation and means for creating at least a second speaker notes file including a second speaker notes instance. Links are created between the slide presentation and the at least second speaker notes file to allow the at least second speaker notes instance to be used in support of the one slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Beatrice Coulomb, Olivier Foncarnier, Carole Truntschka