Patents by Inventor Bernadette A. Carter

Bernadette A. Carter 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: 9639706
    Abstract: Techniques to interface with an isolated compute environment may be provided. An external interface may be provided by the isolated compute environment identifying a list of applications. Responsive to receiving a first request to access a first application in the list of applications from a source outside of the isolated compute environment, the isolated compute environment may provide interactive support to the first application to share the first application and the first application's data with the source. Responsive to receiving a second request to access a second application not in the list of applications from the source outside of the isolated compute environment, the isolated compute environment may prevent the interactive support to the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Broz, Bernadette A. Carter, Melba I. Lopez, Matthew G. Marum
  • Publication number: 20170115856
    Abstract: A method for selecting an embedded experience gadget may include displaying an activity stream of a user on a social network, the activity stream comprising a plurality of events and detecting selection of an event from the plurality of events by the user. The method may also include determining a level of intersection between the selected event and each of a plurality of known gadgets and finding an optimal embedded experience gadget from the plurality of known gadgets based on the level of intersection between the selected event and each known gadget. The method may additionally include associating the optimal embedded experience gadget with the selected event and displaying the optimal embedded experience gadget in association with the selected event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Bernadette A. Carter
  • Patent number: 9632669
    Abstract: User input including a social network notification symbol followed by a social network tag is detected in association with a social network user interface. The social network tag includes a text keyword that identifies a social network topic within the social network. A subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic identified by the text keyword of the social network tag is determined. A referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network is defined as the determined subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic. A referential third-party social network notification is published to the defined referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network. The referential third-party social network notification includes the detected user input that includes the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piyush K. Agarwal, James J. Antill, Vincent P. Burckhardt, Bernadette A. Carter
  • Patent number: 9614896
    Abstract: There are provided a method, a system and a computer program product for customizing a loading message to be displayed during a loading process. The system receives, from a client device used by a user, an event message that indicates a start of the loading process. The system receives, from the client device, one or more content sources. The system selects a content source among the one or more content sources. The system displays content from the selected content source to the user during the loading process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Broz, Bernadette A. Carter, Melba I. Lopez, Matthew G. Marum
  • Patent number: 9606711
    Abstract: An approach is described for evaluating portions of content in an online community. An associated system may include a processor and a memory storing an application program, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation that may include displaying a content post in an online community interface and, upon detecting a selection of an option in the online community interface to evaluate the content post, requesting a selection of one or more portions of the content post and an evaluation of the selected one or more portions. Requesting such evaluation may include requesting selection of a favorability score on a predefined scale for each of the selected one or more portions. The operation further may include, upon receiving a selection of one or more portions and an evaluation of the selected one or more portions, updating display of the content post to reflect the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy, Stephanie L. Trunzo
  • Patent number: 9600165
    Abstract: An approach is described for evaluating portions of content in an online community. An associated method may include displaying a content post in an online community interface and, upon detecting a selection of an option in the online community interface to evaluate the content post, requesting a selection of one or more portions of the content post and an evaluation of the selected one or more portions. Requesting such evaluation may include requesting selection of a favorability score on a predefined scale for each of the selected one or more portions. Previously evaluated portions or portions predetermined via natural language processing or audiovisual processing may be displayed to facilitate evaluation of the content post. The method further may include, upon receiving a selection of one or more portions and an evaluation of the selected one or more portions, updating display of the content post to reflect the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy, Stephanie L. Trunzo
  • Patent number: 9514119
    Abstract: An electronic document is parsed against a plurality of phrases. Each of the plurality of phrases indicates a text effect. It is determined that the electronic document includes a phrase at least similar to a first phrase of the plurality of phrases. A first contributor of the electronic document that is associated with the phrase is determined. A first text effect indicated by the phrase is determined. A mapping is created between the first contributor and the first text effect indicated by the phrase. The mapping is supplied for presenting of the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Kathryn Lemanski Mercer, Cesar A. Wong
  • Patent number: 9509758
    Abstract: Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may provide and/or receive relevant commentary for media content. Additionally, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received in response to rendering a section of the media content. In addition, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on one or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and/or a preference for a state of a social network. Moreover, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on a topic related to the section of the media content. The relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary. In addition, an ambiguous section of the media content may be clarified, and/or an interactive commentary session may be simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Michal Broz, Bernadette A. Carter, Melba I. Lopez, Matthew G. Marum
  • Patent number: 9501659
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for inheriting social network information from a first user to one or more other users. In various examples, rule-based criteria (e.g., origination, update frequency, access, event occurrence and/or proficiency) are utilized for allowing a first user to bestow (e.g., transfer/share/delegate) social network information (e.g., authorization, access, contact(s), document(s), video(s), file(s), image(s), post(s), blog(s), content, rule(s) and/or control) to a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Arthur R. Francis
  • Publication number: 20160335701
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product sorts and displays product reviews of ecommerce products. A system receives product reviews for ecommerce products. The product reviews are displayed on an ecommerce webpage, are generated by product reviewers, and are for different types of products. Reviewer profiles of the product reviewers are received. The reviewer profiles include characteristics of the product reviewers that affect usage of one or more of the different types of products. A user profile for a user is received. The user profile includes characteristics of the user that affect usage of one or more of the different types of products. The user profile is matched to a specific reviewer profile from the reviewer profiles. The product reviews are sorted according to the different types of products and the specific reviewer profile. The sorted product reviews are then displayed on the ecommerce webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Bernadette A. Carter, Rahul Ghosh, Joseph N. Kozhaya, Dana L. Price
  • Patent number: 9495083
    Abstract: User input including a social network notification symbol followed by a social network tag is detected in association with a social network user interface. The social network tag includes a text keyword that identifies a social network topic within the social network. A subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic identified by the text keyword of the social network tag is determined. A referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network is defined as the determined subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic. A referential third-party social network notification is published to the defined referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network. The referential third-party social network notification includes the detected user input that includes the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piyush K. Agarwal, James J. Antill, Vincent P. Burckhardt, Bernadette A. Carter
  • Publication number: 20160321349
    Abstract: Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network includes categorizing a sender-recipient relationship between a sender and a recipient of an incoming message in an activity stream in a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy, Stephanie L. Trunzo
  • Publication number: 20160308808
    Abstract: A method, system and/or computer program product predicts viewing activity of a new posting to an activity stream. A first computer transmits a new posting to an activity stream in a second computer, where the new posting is available to a potential viewer set. Based on identified viewer information about one or more members of the potential viewer set, a prediction is made of viewing activity of the new posting by the potential viewer set. This predicted viewing activity is based on identified viewer information about members of the potential viewer set, and describes a predicted likelihood of the potential viewer set viewing the new posting. The derived predicted viewing activity of the new posting by the potential viewer set is then presented at the first computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: SHADI E. ALBOUYEH, BERNADETTE A. CARTER, JEFFREY R. HOY, STEPHANIE L. TRUNZO
  • Publication number: 20160299939
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for validating content included in an electronic communication is disclosed. A computer receives a new communication that includes content from an original communication. The computer determines if the content included in the new communication includes a change to the original communication. In response to determining that the content includes the change to the original communication, the computer generates a validation score of the new communication, such that the validation score is determined by an amount of match between the content of the new communication and the original communication, and the extent to which the change alters a purport of the original communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Nikhil R. Parekh, Jacques-Marie Thrasybule, Cesar A. Wong
  • Patent number: 9467411
    Abstract: Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network includes categorizing a sender-recipient relationship between a sender and a recipient of an incoming message in an activity stream in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy, Stephanie L. Trunzo
  • Publication number: 20160275174
    Abstract: Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network includes categorizing a sender-recipient relationship between a sender and a recipient of an incoming message in an activity stream in a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy, Stephanie L. Trunzo
  • Publication number: 20160266999
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a selection of one or more files for which to have one or more automated unit tests generated for an application under test. An action in the application under test is received while the application under test is used. Behavior data of how the application under test responds to the action is tracked, wherein tracking is performed by inserting observer code using aspect oriented programming method, which tracks each method's interaction with its own objects and objects that are passed to it. An automated unit test of the one or more automated unit tests is generated for underlying code of the application under test invoked when receiving the action based upon, at least in part, the behavior data of how the application under test responds to the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Pratyush Dhruv, Corrie HY Kwan, Robert Retchless, Lauren J. Hayward Schaefer, Cesar A. Wong
  • Patent number: 9442932
    Abstract: A system and method for managing electronic social networking includes defining content from a first user for communication to other users on an electronic social networking system. Natural language processing (NLP) and analytic analysis are applied to the content to identify a workflow for accessing and responding to the content. The access and the response to the content are based on the workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy
  • Patent number: 9444776
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for providing a dynamic, intelligent e-mail signature. In an embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving an e-mail from a sender, storing the e-mail for later retrieval, assigning a URL representing the e-mail signature and sending the URL to the sender. Further, the method includes the steps of receiving the URL from the e-mail recipient, analyzing the e-mail and social media activities of sender and recipient, determining a signature and sending the signature to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shadi E. Albouyeh, Bernadette A. Carter, Jeffrey R. Hoy, Stephanie L. Trunzo
  • Publication number: 20160246974
    Abstract: Techniques to interface with an isolated compute environment may be provided. An external interface may be provided by the isolated compute environment identifying a list of applications. Responsive to receiving a first request to access a first application in the list of applications from a source outside of the isolated compute environment, the isolated compute environment may provide interactive support to the first application to share the first application and the first application's data with the source. Responsive to receiving a second request to access a second application not in the list of applications from the source outside of the isolated compute environment, the isolated compute environment may prevent the interactive support to the second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Michal Broz, Bernadette A. Carter, Melba I. Lopez, Matthew G. Marum