Patents by Inventor Christopher W. Kirby

Christopher W. Kirby 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).

  • Collaborative bookmarking
    Patent number: 8364718
    Abstract: A method and system for collaborating tags in a bookmarking system wherein the bookmarking system includes a plurality of tags applied to content items by a plurality of users, the method and system including, examining all the tags that are applied to all the content items, determining whether two tags have been assigned to the same content item, if two tags have been assigned to the same content item, computing the relative strength of each of the two tags with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher W. Kirby
  • Collaborative bookmarking
    Patent number: 8275789
    Abstract: A method and system for filtering tags in a collaborative bookmarking system wherein the collaborative bookmarking system includes confidential and/or proprietary information, whereby tag filters prevent access to certain confidential and/or proprietary information by permitting a user access to the collaborative bookmarking system, authenticating the user, permitting the user to submit a search request to the collaborative bookmarking system, whereby the search request retrieves search result tags, and filtering the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher W. Kirby
  • COLLABORATIVE BOOKMARKING
    Publication number: 20100153364
    Abstract: A method and system for filtering tags in a collaborative bookmarking system wherein the collaborative bookmarking system includes confidential and/or proprietary information, whereby tag filters prevent access to certain confidential and/or proprietary information by permitting a user access to the collaborative bookmarking system, authenticating the user, permitting the user to submit a search request to the collaborative bookmarking system, whereby the search request retrieves search result tags, and filtering the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christopher W. Kirby
  • COLLABORATIVE BOOKMARKING
    Publication number: 20100114907
    Abstract: A method and system for collaborating tags in a bookmarking system wherein the bookmarking system includes a plurality of tags applied to content items by a plurality of users, the method and system including, examining all the tags that are applied to all the content items, determining whether two tags have been assigned to the same content item, if two tags have been assigned to the same content item, computing the relative strength of each of the two tags with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christopher W. Kirby