Patents by Inventor Christian Lee Hunt
Christian Lee Hunt 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).
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Patent number: 10931479Abstract: Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Balan Subramanian, Christian Lee Hunt, Denilson Nastacio, Roger Michael Meli
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Publication number: 20190363908Abstract: Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Balan Subramanian, Christian Lee Hunt, Denilson Nastacio, Roger Michael Meli
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Patent number: 10425253Abstract: Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Balan Subramanian, Roger Michael Meli, Denilson Nastacio, Christian Lee Hunt
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Publication number: 20190020503Abstract: Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Balan Subramanian, Roger Michael Meli, Denilson Nastacio, Christian Lee Hunt
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Patent number: 10122550Abstract: Managing subscriptions over a network, where the network comprises intermediaries, clients, and service providers. Certain embodiments provide for receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and application level header information, reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription, and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Balan Subramanian, Christian Lee Hunt, Denilson Nastacio, Roger Michael Meli
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Patent number: 8692673Abstract: Methods and computer program products for locating devices having a given state by locating a device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds to queries from an RFID tag reader independently of the state of the device, and determining the state of the device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device. A system for locating devices having a given state comprises an RFID tag reader for locating a device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds independently of the state of the device, and an RFID tag reader for determining the state of the device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Vincent Mitchel Padua, Robin Radez, William Alexander Reichert, III, Gregory Covert Smith, Oriana Jeannette Williams
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Patent number: 8683587Abstract: A system for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include a computing device configured to submit a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service. An application operating on the computing device may determine which ones of the plurality of intermediaries to rely upon for monitoring the service based at least in part on a probability value associated with each intermediary. The probability value is a function of at least a frequency of messages associated with the service processed by the intermediary and a time period since a last message associated with the service was processed by the intermediary. The system may also include an output device to present the monitored data in response to the monitored data being received by the computing device from the determined ones of the plurality of intermediaries.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Roger Michael Meli, Denilson Nastacio, Balan Subramanian
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Patent number: 8421601Abstract: Devices, systems, processes, and articles of manufacture are provided herein. These may include an RFID transponder having a microprocessor, nonvolatile memory, a battery, and an antenna, wherein the microprocessor is configured to operate in a passive mode and a battery operated mode, and wherein, when in the passive mode only a portion of the microprocessor may be powered by energy received from an RFID reader interrogating the RFID transponder. The RFID transponder may further include MEMS sensors coupled to the microprocessor and the microprocessor may be further configured to add physical data, instructions, or a unique identifier of the RFID transponder to the nonvolatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth L. Greenlee, Christian Lee Hunt, Steven Michael Miller, Anne Irene Ryan
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Publication number: 20120166615Abstract: Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Balan Subramanian, Christian Lee Hunt, Denilson Nastacio, Roger Michael Meli
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Publication number: 20120144029Abstract: A system for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include a computing device configured to submit a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service. An application operating on the computing device may determine which ones of the plurality of intermediaries to rely upon for monitoring the service based at least in part on a probability value associated with each intermediary. The probability value is a function of at least a frequency of messages associated with the service processed by the intermediary and a time period since a last message associated with the service was processed by the intermediary. The system may also include an output device to present the monitored data in response to the monitored data being received by the computing device from the determined ones of the plurality of intermediaries.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: CHRISTIAN LEE HUNT, ROGER MICHAEL MELI, DENILSON NASTACIO, BALAN SUBRAMANIAN
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Patent number: 8141151Abstract: A method for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include submitting a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service and determining which ones of the plurality of intermediaries to rely upon for monitoring the service. The method may also include receiving the monitored data from the determined ones of the plurality of intermediaries and presenting the monitored data for monitoring the service.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Roger Michael Meli, Denilson Nastacio, Balan Subramanian
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Publication number: 20110202683Abstract: Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Balan Subramanian, Christian Lee Hunt, Denilson Nastacio, Roger Michael Meli
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Patent number: 7834764Abstract: In an RFID system having an edge controller and a tag reader that is operably connected to the edge controller, a manifest of items having RFID tags tracked by the RFID system is identified, and data from the manifest is downloaded to the edge controller in anticipation of reading the RFID tags, i.e., the manifest data is prefetched. An RFID edge controller that may be operably connected to a tag reader receives, in anticipation of the tag reader reading RFID tags associated with items, manifest data prefetched from a database that stores manifests of items, and compares the manifest data with data read from the RFID tags to determine whether the items comply with the manifest.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Gregory Covert Smith
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Publication number: 20100238002Abstract: Devices, systems, processes, and articles of manufacture are provided herein. These may include an RFID transponder having a microprocessor, nonvolatile memory, a battery, and an antenna, wherein the microprocessor is configured to operate in a passive mode and a battery operated mode, and wherein, when in the passive mode only a portion of the microprocessor may be powered by energy received from an RFID reader interrogating the RFID transponder. The RFID transponder may further include MEMS sensors coupled to the microprocessor and the microprocessor may be further configured to add physical data, instructions, or a unique identify of the RFID transponder to the nonvolatile memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Anne Irene Ryan, Christian Lee Hunt, Kenneth L. Greenlee, Steven Micheel Miller
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Patent number: 7739147Abstract: A system, method, and program product that uses statistical sampling to determine whether a pallet has been received when the pallet-level RFID tag is not read. When a shipment is unloaded, the system keeps track of the item-level RFID tags that are received. A threshold is retrieved and compared with the number of item-level RFID tags that were received. If the threshold is 50%, then the pallet would be assumed to be received and marked accordingly in the manifest if 50% of the items in the pallet were received. Threshold levels can be customized based upon the vendor shipping the goods, the type of goods being shipped, or both. In addition, the vendor quality rating and the type of good rating can be combined to form a single threshold that incorporates the vendor's quality along with the material (interference) quality of the goods on the particular pallet.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Peter Branigan, Christian Lee Hunt, John Kenneth Senegal, Gregory Covert Smith
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Publication number: 20090201130Abstract: An inexpensive disabling or kill mechanism is provided for an RFID tag to allow a user to decide when to disable the tag and to initiate the kill process. RFID tag antenna circuitry is partially or wholly covered with an oxidation-retardant coating. The activation-retardant coating includes a grippable pull tab. When a user decides he or she no longer wants a functional RFID tag, the user can use the pull tab to remove the least a selectable area of the oxidation-retardant coating. Removing the selectable area will expose at least part of the antenna to begin an oxidizing process that will eventually disable the antenna. An oxidizing agent may be deposited on the antenna before the oxidation-retardant coating is put in place. When exposed to ambient environment, the oxidizing agent may accelerate the oxidation process that disables the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth L. Greenlee, Christian Lee Hunt, Anne Irene Ryan
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Publication number: 20090064324Abstract: A method for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include submitting a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service and determining which ones of the plurality of intermediaries to rely upon for monitoring the service. The method may also include receiving the monitored data from the determined ones of the plurality of intermediaries and presenting the monitored data for monitoring the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Roger Michael Meli, Denilson Nastacio, Balan Subramanian
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Publication number: 20090045957Abstract: Methods and computer program products for locating devices having a given state by locating a device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds to queries from an RFID tag reader independently of the state of the device, and determining the state of the device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device. A system for locating devices having a given state comprises an RFID tag reader for locating a device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds independently of the state of the device, and an RFID tag reader for determining the state of the device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATINInventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Vincent Mitchel Padua, Robin Radez, William Alexander Reichert, III, Gregory Covert Smith, Oriana Jeannette Williams
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Patent number: 7463153Abstract: Methods and computer program products for locating devices having a given state by locating a device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds to queries from an RFID tag reader independently of the state of the device, and determining the state of the device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device. The invention also includes systems for locating devices having a given state. The systems comprise an RFID tag reader for locating a device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds independently of the state of the device, and an RFID tag reader for determining the state of the device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Vincent Mitchel Padua, Robin Radez, William Alexander Reichert, III, Gregory Covert Smith, Oriana Jeannette Williams
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Publication number: 20080266062Abstract: In an RFID system having an edge controller and a tag reader that is operably connected to the edge controller, a manifest of items having RFID tags tracked by the RFID system is identified, and data from the manifest is downloaded to the edge controller in anticipation of reading the RFID tags, i.e., the manifest data is prefetched. An RFID edge controller that may be operably connected to a tag reader receives, in anticipation of the tag reader reading RFID tags associated with items, manifest data prefetched from a database that stores manifests of items, and compares the manifest data with data read from the RFID tags to determine whether the items comply with the manifest.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Christian Lee Hunt, Gregory Covert Smith