Patents by Inventor Charles P. De Saint-Aignan

Charles P. De Saint-Aignan 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: 11516251
    Abstract: Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared the through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mary Ellen Zurko, David J. Toth, Satwiksai Seshasai, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Christopher J. Paul
  • Patent number: 9628492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application (19; 50) has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application, characterized by the steps of: a) building a filter based on the peer group of the requesting user by collecting the communities of all composite applications which said user is member of (650, 660, 670) b) using said filter as an additional constraint when selecting (680) user information from the user registry in order to limit all query results to user profile informat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dieter Buehler, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Stefan Hepper, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20170070538
    Abstract: Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared the through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mary Ellen Zurko, David J. Toth, Satwiksai Seshasai, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Christopher J. Paul
  • Patent number: 9507793
    Abstract: Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared file through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mary Ellen Zurko, David J. Toth, Satwiksai Seshasai, Charles P. De Saint-Aignan, Christopher J. Paul
  • Publication number: 20110078197
    Abstract: Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared file through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mary Ellen Zurko, David J. Toth, Satwiksai Seshasai, Charles P. De Saint-Aignan, Christopher J. Paul
  • Publication number: 20090198682
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application (19; 50) has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application, characterized by the steps of: a) building a filter based on the peer group of the requesting user by collecting the communities of all composite applications which said user is member of (650, 660, 670) b) using said filter as an additional constraint when selecting (680) user information from the user registry in order to limit all query results to user profile informati
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dieter Buehler, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Stefan Hepper, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20090172567
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to uniform Web application navigation in a Web application environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for a dynamically added navigation widget for loosely integrating multiple Web pages. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamically adding a navigation widget for loosely integrating multiple Web pages in a social network can be provided. The method can include identifying a user as either author or owner of content for Web pages loaded from different sources for viewing in a content browser, matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, and returning the navigation script for embedding in each of the Web pages as a navigator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Brooks, Charles P. De Saint-Aignan, Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Ethan L. Perry, Robert Yates