Patents by Inventor Christian Facciorusso

Christian Facciorusso 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: 8812340
    Abstract: Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on at least one property associated with each task definition and provides at least one of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Simon Field, Yigal Hoffner
  • Patent number: 8332254
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatic identification of an insertion point. Comparison defining the correspondence between elements of models is done. The sequence order of elements in the second model is analyzed to identify predecessor and successor elements of the element t. The comparison is used to identify a set of transferred predecessors (Ptrans), comprising elements of the first model which correspond to predecessor elements (PS) in the second model, and a set of transferred successors (Strans) comprising elements of the first model which correspond to successor elements (SS) in the second model. Then, positions of the elements x, y in the sequence order of the first model are compared with the positions of elements in the sets of transferred predecessors and successors (Ptrans, Strans). An edge between the elements x and y is identified as an insertion point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business MAchines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Felix Feger, Jana Koehler, Jochen M. Kuester
  • Patent number: 8065176
    Abstract: Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on at least one property associated with each task definition and provides at least one of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Simon Field, Yigal Hoffner
  • Publication number: 20080288464
    Abstract: Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on at least one property associated with each task definition and provides at least one of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Simon Field, Yigal Hoffner
  • Publication number: 20080255815
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatic identification of an insertion point. Comparison defining the correspondence between elements of models is done. The sequence order of elements in the second model is analyzed to identify predecessor and successor elements of the element t. The comparison is used to identify a set of transferred predecessors (Ptrans), comprising elements of the first model which correspond to predecessor elements (PS) in the second model, and a set of transferred successors (Strans) comprising elements of the first model which correspond to successor elements (SS) in the second model. Then, positions of the elements x, y in the sequence order of the first model are compared with the positions of elements in the sets of transferred predecessors and successors (Ptrans, Strans). An edge between the elements x and y is identified as an insertion point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Felix Feger, Jana Koehler, Jochen M. Kuester
  • Publication number: 20070233677
    Abstract: Provision data from a provider application is matched with request data from a consumer application operating in a trading environment in which third party compatibility rules are applied to matched request/provision data pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Yigal Hoffner, Christopher Sharp
  • Publication number: 20050177406
    Abstract: Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on at least one property associated with each task definition and provides at least one of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Facciorusso, Simon Field, Yigal Hoffner
  • Publication number: 20020007337
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system is provided for determining, in a trader device of an electronic trading system, whether a match exists between a client requirement, provided by a client device of the system, and a supplier offer stored in trader device. The supplier offer comprises feature data, indicative of a set of features of an offered product, including at least one updatable feature data element. The updatable feature data element is indicative of a variable feature of the offered product and includes address data indicative of a location from which a current specification of the variable feature can be obtained by the trader device in response to an update request from the trader device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Schade, Yigal Hoffner, Simon Field, Christian Facciorusso