Patents by Inventor Carrie J. Bracht

Carrie J. Bracht 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: 8275109
    Abstract: Administering participant attendance of teleconferences, including monitoring present call status of a user's telephone. In dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously scheduled teleconferences, a teleconference administration device determines whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference. If the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, the teleconference administration device notifies prospective participants of the conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jan E. Acosta, Carrie J. Bracht, James L. Jones, Karen A. Rosengren, Elizabeth V. Woodward
  • Publication number: 20100262610
    Abstract: Identifying subject matter experts including receiving, by an SME search engine from a user, a search request including text corresponding to a particular subject matter; finding, in one or more information repositories, in dependence upon the text of the search request, one or more resources, including determining for each resource a credibility rating; identifying one or more potential subject matter experts associated with the resources; calculating, for each of the potential subject matter experts, in dependence upon the credibility rating of the each resource, a weighted expert score representing an estimated level of expertise for each potential subject matter expert; and returning, to the user by the SME search engine as one more search results, the potential subject matter experts in order of the weighted expert scores along with resources associated with the potential subject matter experts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: JAN E. ACOSTA, CARRIE J. BRACHT, JAMES L. JONES, KAREN A. ROSENGREN, ELIZABETH V. WOODWARD
  • Publication number: 20100246792
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and products for administering participant attendance of teleconferences, including monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone; determining, by the teleconference administration device in dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously scheduled teleconferences, whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference; and if the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, notifying, by the teleconference administration device, prospective participants of the conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jan E. Acosta, Carrie J. Bracht, James L. Jones, Karen A. Rosengren, Elizabeth V. Woodward
  • Patent number: 5305434
    Abstract: In a relational database system, facility is provided for a navigator controlling a procedure executor and a panel executor. Procedures are specified by a procedural language which includes current panel operations being permitted as a panel commands in the procedural language. The panel may call these procedures and the procedures may thus include panel actions executed by the panel executor upon being called. The procedure monitors the state of the current panel which may comprise monitoring multiple fields and may effect changes thereto automatically and as a function of the monitoring, as well as direct commitment of data in the panel. Provision is further made for looping logic in the procedures whereby batch panels are effected without the need for user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Ballard, Carrie J. Bracht, Gayle E. Fisher, Michael E. Payne, Troy D. Spencer