Patents by Inventor CAROLINE J. THOMAS

CAROLINE J. THOMAS 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: 9516522
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20160306612
    Abstract: The method of tracking errors and warnings of a revision of source code includes a computer processor that receives a first and second revision of source code. The computer processor determines a first set of errors and warnings included in the first revision of the source code and a second set of errors and warnings included in the second revision of the source code. The computer processor identifies a third set of errors and warnings that appear in the first revision of the source code, and absent in the second revision of the source code, and the computer processor identifies a fourth set of errors and warnings that are absent in the first revision of the source code and that appear in the second revision of the source code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20160306627
    Abstract: The method of tracking errors and warnings of a revision of source code includes a computer processor that receives a first and second revision of source code. The computer processor determines a first set of errors and warnings included in the first revision of the source code and a second set of errors and warnings included in the second revision of the source code. The computer processor identifies a third set of errors and warnings that appear in the first revision of the source code, and absent in the second revision of the source code, and the computer processor identifies a fourth set of errors and warnings that are absent in the first revision of the source code and that appear in the second revision of the source code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9456081
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9338675
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150370880
    Abstract: For browsing items on the worldwide web, operations are performed, including: searching for items to browse at a first website; recording attributes of each item browsed at the first website; searching for items to browse at a second website; comparing attributes of items identified during the searching of the second website with the recorded attributes of items browsed at the first website; in the event of a match between attributes of an item identified during the searching of the second website and the recorded attributes of an item browsed at the first website, indicating that the item identified at the second website is the same as the item browsed at the first website; and displaying an indication to the user that the item identified at the second website is the same as the item browsed at the first website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150160014
    Abstract: A method of monitoring the location of a set of devices comprises the steps of providing route information to each device, detecting the location of each device, detecting that a first device has deviated from the predefined route information, and informing each other device in the set of devices that the first device has deviated from the predefined route information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Ricky J. Moorhouse, Neil J. Ord, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140323155
    Abstract: A communication method comprises attempting to connect a communication from a source to a target, detecting that the communication cannot be connected to the target, accessing location information for the target, accessing a contact list for the source, accessing location information for contacts on the contact list, detecting contacts on the contact list whose location is the same or close to the location of the target, and outputting one or more detected contacts whose location is the same or close to the location of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: JAMES HEWITT, RICKY J. MOORHOUSE, NEIL J. ORD, CAROLINE J. THOMAS