Patents by Inventor Birgit Schmidt

Birgit Schmidt 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: 8806060
    Abstract: A web browsing system for retrieving a web page whereby the web page comprises associated frames, content data and context data (e.g. navigational buttons, hyperlinks to other web pages etc.). The system is usable with a distributed data processing system comprising a server computer and a client computer, whereby the web page is stored on the server computer and is transmitted over a network to the client computer. The web browsing system comprises a function for providing a bookmark to the web page and also comprises a function to retrieve the bookmark. Once a bookmark has been retrieved, the web page and the structure of the web page, namely, the plurality of frames, the content data and the context data are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Page, Birgit Schmidt-Wesche
  • Publication number: 20130034840
    Abstract: For selecting survey questions, a response module receives responses to first questions relating to at least two qualities of at least two characteristics. A plot module generates a scatter plot of the at least two qualities for each characteristic. A selection module selects second questions targeted to characteristics with characteristic plot values for the at least two qualities in a specified region of the scatter plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mary C. Burton, Deepa R. Nair, Birgit Schmidt-Wesche, Lauren Shupp, Peter Sohn
  • Patent number: 7165070
    Abstract: A method of retrieving information by navigating within a web browsing session. The information is stored on a server in a hierarchical tree comprising a root node, top-level child nodes representing information categories and leaf nodes representing information sub-categories. Each of the nodes has an associated information unit. Initially, an information unit associated with the root node is displayed in an information space. A user then performs navigation operations from the root node, by selecting a first top-level child node, traversing the leaf nodes and selecting a first leaf node. A first information unit associated with the first leaf node is subsequently displayed in the information space. This first information unit is stored, the navigation operations are repeated on a second top-level child node until a second information unit is displayed in the information space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Richard Page, Birgit Schmidt-Wesche, Jonathan Stone
  • Publication number: 20030177265
    Abstract: A web browsing system for retrieving a web page whereby the web page comprises associated frames, content data and context data (e.g. navigational buttons, hyperlinks to other web pages etc.). The system is usable with a distributed data processing system comprising a server computer and a client computer, whereby the web page is stored on the server computer and is transmitted over a network to the client computer. The web browsing system comprises a function for providing a bookmark to the web page and also comprises a function to retrieve the bookmark. Once a bookmark has been retrieved, the web page and the structure of the web page, namely, the plurality of frames, the content data and the context data are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Page, Birgit Schmidt-Wesche
  • Publication number: 20020143864
    Abstract: A method of retrieving information by navigating within a web browsing session. The information is stored on a server in a hierarchical tree comprising a root node, top-level child nodes representing information categories and leaf nodes representing information sub-categories. Each of the nodes has an associated information unit. Initially, an information unit associated with the root node is displayed in an information space. A user then performs navigation operations from the root node, by selecting a first top-level child node, traversing the leaf nodes and selecting a first leaf node. A first information unit associated with the first leaf node is subsequently displayed in the information space. This first information unit is stored, the navigation operations are repeated on a second top-level child node until a second information unit is displayed in the information space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Richard Page, Birgit Schmidt-Wesche, Jonathan Stone
  • Patent number: 4639496
    Abstract: Method for the manufacture of a polymer with triaromatic methane units as basic building blocks, the electric conductivity of which is obtained through the formation of charge transfer complexes. Electron donors and/or electron acceptors are added to the synthetic polymer during or after its preparation, for forming charge transfer complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Brown, Boveri & Cie AG
    Inventors: Gerd Weddigen, Robert Huber, Birgit Schmidt, Hartmut Schneider
  • Patent number: 4564466
    Abstract: Method for the manufacture of a polymer with triaromatic methane units as basic building blocks, the electric conductivity of which is obtained through the formation of charge transfer complexes. Electron donors and/or electron acceptors are added to the synthetic polymer during or after its preparation, for forming charge transfer complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Brown, Boveri & Cie AG
    Inventors: Gerd Weddigen, Robert Huber, Birgit Schmidt, Hartmut Schneider