Patents by Inventor Brent Cossey

Brent Cossey 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: 7694148
    Abstract: A method (10) for managing the display of sensitive content in non-trusted environments can include the steps of interrogating (12) a list of policies associated with a given user and a physical device, determining (14) a location of the physical device, comparing (18) the location of the physical device with a list of trusted locations, and enforcing (20) a plurality of rules contained in the policy by limiting or restricting access to sensitive information based on the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tsz Cheng, Brent Cossey, Gregory Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20090172408
    Abstract: A method (10) for managing the display of sensitive content in non-trusted environments can include the steps of interrogating (12) a list of policies associated with a given user and a physical device, determining (14) a location of the physical device, comparing (18) the location of the physical device with a list of trusted locations, and enforcing (20) a plurality of rules contained in the policy by limiting or restricting access to sensitive information based on the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsz Cheng, Brent Cossey, Gregory Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20080015916
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a solution for a private business registry that includes trust status attributes that automatically change based upon business events in accordance with a set of configurable rules. The programmatic service for adjusting trust status attributes can remain resident on a server that manages the private business registry and can monitor activity that constitutes a variety of business processes as described in the services profile. The profile can and must be customized by a target enterprise. When business transactions occur between the target enterprise and one or more candidate enterprises (e.g., seeking enterprises) wishing to conduct business with the target enterprise, the resident service can compare transaction specifics against a ruleset contained in the profile. When the occurrence of the event causes a threshold to be met (via ruleset execution) the resident service can then change a value of the trust status attribute of a seeking entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: BRENT COSSEY, GREGORY FITZPATRICK, ROBERT KELLER
  • Publication number: 20070266333
    Abstract: A method for editing software objects can include identifying at least one user selection of at least a portion of an electronic document displayed within an application and prompting a user for a target destination to which the user selection is to be posted. A user input specifying the target destination to which the user selection is to be posted can be received and the user selection can be duplicated to the target destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brent Cossey, Gregory Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20050125673
    Abstract: A method (10) for managing the display of sensitive content in non-trusted environments can include the steps of interrogating (12) a list of policies associated with a given user and a physical device, determining (14) a location of the physical device, comparing (18) the location of the physical device with a list of trusted locations, and enforcing (20) a plurality of rules contained in the policy by limiting or restricting access to sensitive information based on the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tsz Simon Cheng, Brent Cossey, Gregory Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20050125362
    Abstract: An electronic commerce method can include the step of determining a plurality of e-commerce partners. For each partner, a partner identifier can be presented within a commerce GUI. In the commerce GUI, the partner identifier can be an expandable node. An expansion of at least one of the nodes can be presented within the commerce GUI. For each expansion, a transaction identifier can be presented as a child node of the expanded node. The transaction identifier can represent an electronic commerce transaction between a user of the commerce GUI and the associated e-commerce partner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tsz Cheng, Brent Cossey, Gregory Fitzpatrick