Patents by Inventor Colin I. Holyoake

Colin I. Holyoake 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: 9456081
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9338675
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150347728
    Abstract: A method and related electronic apparatus for providing a user access to a computer system, the method comprising: determining at least one object in contact with a surface; generating at least one pulse sequence; actuating the surface based on the at least one pulse sequence; determining an absence of the at least one object from the surface; determining at least one character of a password input based on the at least one pulse sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Colin I. Holyoake, James S. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20150113922
    Abstract: A packaging product and a method of closing a packaging product are provided. Closing a packaging product may include providing a first member of the packaging product having an aperture therein and providing a bubble rivet extending through the aperture and having an expanded hollow head portion on one side of the aperture with a neck portion of the bubble rivet being provided in the aperture. The hollow head portion of the bubble rivet is breakable to enable withdrawal of the head portion through the aperture thereby non-reversibly opening the packaging product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Sarah M. Drewery, Michael J. Fish, Colin I. Holyoake, Keira L. Hopkins
  • Publication number: 20150060382
    Abstract: A blanking panel is provided for blocking an aperture in a rack for mounting multiple hardware components. The panel includes: a frame having a first pair of parallel sides connected orthogonally to a second pair of parallel sides, where at least one of the pairs of parallel sides is adjustable in length; an attachment means provided on at least one of the pairs of parallel sides for removable attachment of the blanking panel to the rack; and a screen formed of a flexible and stretchable material extending between at least one of the pairs of parallel sides where the flexible and stretchable material stretches as the pair of parallel sides are moved apart thereby blocking the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Sarah M. Drewery, Colin I. Holyoake
  • Publication number: 20140321080
    Abstract: An electrical socket comprises a body. A sleeve having a longitudinal axis is mounted in the body for receiving an electrical plug. At least one electrical contact is located in the sleeve for completing an electrical connection with a corresponding electrical contact of the plug when inserted in the sleeve. The sleeve is mounted to pivot about a point on the longitudinal axis thereof for movement relative to the body in response to a force applied to the sleeve in a direction lateral to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Colin I. Holyoake, James S. Taylor