Patents by Inventor Christopher J. Hockings

Christopher J. Hockings 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: 8161108
    Abstract: An online collaboration system can access data in one or more skills repositories to search for participants with indicated skills and automatically display participants' skill information during online collaborations. Searching for participants by skill allows individuals most likely to add value to a discussion to be identified and invited to an online collaboration. Displaying skill information can facilitate focused interaction leading to a more productive online collaboration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Y. Choi, Christopher J. Hockings, Neil I. Readshaw
  • Publication number: 20100274586
    Abstract: A drug interaction utility can retrieve the patient's current medications from a medication information card on the smart card by interacting with an identity selector on the provider's computer. The identity selector can transmit the current medications to the drug interaction utility without disclosing any information about the current medications to the provider and without disclosing any information identifying tile patient to the drug interaction utility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Y. Choi, Christopher J. Hockings, Neil I. Readshaw
  • Publication number: 20100174780
    Abstract: An online collaboration system can access data in one or more skills repositories to search for participants with indicated skills and automatically display participants' skill information during online collaborations. Searching for participants by skill allows individuals most likely to add value to a discussion to be identified and invited to an online collaboration. Displaying skill information can facilitate focused interaction leading to a more productive online collaboration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Y. Choi, Christopher J. Hockings, Neil I. Readshaw
  • Publication number: 20100175129
    Abstract: A system and method for protecting a user from offensive behavior in communications and notifying the user and/or an enforcement entity of the offensive behavior. The offensive content analysis system monitors communications between users for offensive behavior. The offensive content analysis system may measure the level of current offense in the communication and determine a historical offensive behavior pattern for the user. The offensive content analysis system may then determine if the offensive behavior, both current and historical, rises to a threshold behavior level. The offensive content analysis system may take notification action if the offensive behavior meets the threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leigh T. Doddy, Christopher J. Hockings
  • Publication number: 20100175115
    Abstract: An identity management (“IdM”) system can change the credentials at certain intervals. If credentials change, there is no way for an application that uses the credentials to know that the credentials have changed because the application dependency relationships are unknown. When service account credentials change, credentials are typically manually updated for each dependent application. Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter allow IdM systems to track application dependencies for service accounts. The IdM systems can detect when service account credentials change and automatically notify dependent applications of the new service account credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Y. Choi, Christopher J. Hockings, Neil I. Readshaw
  • Publication number: 20040123144
    Abstract: A method is presented for enabling single-sign-on functionality with applications that require user/client authentication using form documents. A server-side forms-based single-sign-on (FSSO) module resides between a back-end application and a user. The FSSO module is configured to scan for various incoming requests and outgoing responses that contain information that trigger the FSSO module to initiate a single-sign-on operation or to perform another action with respect to an ongoing single-sign-on operation. At some point in time, a back-end application sends or attempts to send an authentication form to the user in order to obtain authentication information for an authentication operation by the back-end application, and the FSSO module intercepts the back-end application's authentication process to act as an intermediate agent between the user and the back-end application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Siu-Cheung Chan, Brian Eaton, Christopher J. Hockings, Anthony S.. Moran, Michael A. Tuton