Patents by Inventor Brendan P. Murray

Brendan P. Murray 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: 9229914
    Abstract: Optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ileana Belfiore, Stanley K. Jerrard-Dunne, Brendan P. Murray
  • Patent number: 9218327
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ileana Belfiore, Stanley K. Jerrard-Dunne, Brendan P. Murray
  • Publication number: 20130007580
    Abstract: Optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: ILEANA BELFIORE, STANLEY K. JERRARD-DUNNE, BRENDAN P. MURRAY
  • Publication number: 20130007599
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: ILEANA BELFIORE, STANLEY K. JERRARD-DUNNE, BRENDAN P. MURRAY
  • Patent number: 7191114
    Abstract: An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are parsed, and character sets which can express each character and the accumulated correspondence is logged. When the character sets against which the message is being tested only provide partial matches, the invention can determine which offers the best fit, including by means of a weighting function. The evaluation technology of the invention can be applied to multipart documents, and to search engines and indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan P. Murray, Kuniaki Takizawa
  • Patent number: 7103532
    Abstract: An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are parsed, and character sets which can express each character and the accumulated correspondence is logged. When the character sets against which the message is being tested only provide partial matches, the invention can determine which offers the best fit, including by means of a weighting function. The evaluation technology of the invention can be applied to multipart documents, and to search engines and indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Brendan P. Murray, Kuniaki Takizawa
  • Patent number: 7039637
    Abstract: An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are parsed, and character sets which can express each character and the accumulated correspondence is logged. When the character sets against which the message is being tested only provide partial matches, the invention can determine which offers the best fit, including by means of a weighting function. The evaluation technology of the invention can be applied to multipart documents, and to search engines and indices. Documents can be indexed according to assigned character sets, and quary strings matched to indices according to language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan P. Murray, Kuniaki Takizawa
  • Patent number: 6539118
    Abstract: An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode of other universal format are parsed, and character sets which can express each character and the accumulated correspondence is logged. When the character sets against which the message is being tested only provide partial matches, the invention can determine which offers the best fit, including by way of a weighting function. The evaluation technology of the invention can be applied to multipart documents, and to search engines and indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan P. Murray, Kuniaki Takizawa