Patents by Inventor Brenda Dietrich
Brenda Dietrich 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).
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Patent number: 9773081Abstract: A governing modeling system maintains information associated with an analytic model. One or more policies may be defined that are associated with the analytic model and one or more instances of the analytic model. The system may monitor the analytic model and the one or more instances of the analytic model based on at least some of the information, the one or more policies associated with the analytic model and the one or more policies associated with the one or more instances of the analytic model.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chidanand Apte, Brenda Dietrich, Kevin McAuliffe, Bonnie Ray
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Patent number: 9039419Abstract: A method and system for capturing expert behavior that the expert is not even necessarily conscious of, such as gaze patterns, that are tied to positive outcomes, and to create a catalog (e.g. database) of these behaviors. The system compares the current behavior of a person, for example a novice, against this catalog of expert behaviors. If the current behavior is significantly different, the system would adapt various aspects of the interface to bring the current behavior closer in line to that of the expert.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Brenda Dietrich, Jennifer Lai, Yan Liu
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Patent number: 8488176Abstract: The present invention provides a method for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brenda Dietrich, Michael Karasick, Bonnie Ray
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Patent number: 8488150Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brenda Dietrich, Michael Karasick, Bonnie Ray
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Publication number: 20120250089Abstract: The present invention provides a method for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Brenda Dietrich, Michael Karasick, Bonnie Ray
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Publication number: 20120011082Abstract: A governing modeling system maintains information associated with an analytic model. One or more policies may be defined that are associated with the analytic model and one or more instances of the analytic model. The system may monitor the analytic model and the one or more instances of the analytic model based on at least some of the information, the one or more policies associated with the analytic model and the one or more policies associated with the one or more instances of the analytic model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Chidanand Apte, Brenda Dietrich, Kevin McAuliffe, Bonnie Ray
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Publication number: 20110111384Abstract: A method and system for capturing expert behavior that the expert is not even necessarily conscious of, such as gaze patterns, that are tied to positive outcomes, and to create a catalog (e.g. database) of these behaviors. The system compares the current behavior of a person, for example a novice, against this catalog of expert behaviors. If the current behavior is significantly different, the system would adapt various aspects of the interface to bring the current behavior closer in line to that of the expert.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Brenda Dietrich, Jennifer Lai, Yan Liu
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Publication number: 20090147307Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Brenda Dietrich, Michael Karasick, Bonnie Ray
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Publication number: 20080059477Abstract: A method and system for tracking service orders of service activities each having a service activity date from a sender to a recipient with an email application operating via a communications network. Emails are generated by the sender that have a first portion including a first data from the service order and a second portion including a second data from the service order. An inbox is created at the recipient for the receipt of the email. Also, at least one subfolder is created at the recipient, the subfolder is identified by a conversion date associated with a particular set of first data, and the at least one subfolder in communication with the inbox. The email is sent to the recipient. The first and second data of the email is searched, and the email is moved to a corresponding one of the at least one subfolders identified by the first data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: Embarq Holdings Company LLCInventor: Brenda Dietrich
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Publication number: 20070228141Abstract: Demographic and transaction data are presented in a report usable for marketing-related purposes and other applications using a camera apparatus to capture customer image data at a point-of-sale location and sends the image data to a customer image database where the image data is stored. Demographic data (such as gender, age group, height) are extracted from the customer image data and sent to the customer image database. Point-of-sale transaction data is collected and sent to a transaction database where the transaction data is stored. A computer processes customer image data, transaction data, and attributes relating to the customer image data and transaction data, to correlate extracted demographic data to transaction data. The correlated data is preferably sent to a target marketing database and used to generate a market research report.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Chidanand Apte, Brenda Dietrich, Arun Hampapur, Andrew Senior
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Publication number: 20060243797Abstract: Demographic and transaction data are presented in a report usable for marketing-related purposes and other applications using a camera apparatus to capture customer image data at a point-of-sale location and sends the image data to a customer image database where the image data is stored. Demographic data (such as gender, age group, height) are extracted from the customer image data and sent to the customer image database. Point-of-sale transaction data is collected and sent to a transaction database where the transaction data is stored. A computer processes customer image data, transaction data, and attributes relating to the customer image data and transaction data, to correlate extracted demographic data to transaction data. The correlated data is preferably sent to a target marketing database and used to generate a market research report.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Chidanand Apte, Brenda Dietrich, Arun Hampapur, Andrew Senior
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Publication number: 20050278235Abstract: This invention provides a novel method and system for instantiating a data structure comprising a contract option including a disjunctive capability, of especial utility in enabling a new way of selling commodities or services. Rather than being a right to buy a unit of a type of item at a specified price, as is known to the prior art, the present invention enables one to secure a right to buy at least one unit of one of n-types of items at a predetermined legal consideration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2004Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Brenda Dietrich