Patents by Inventor Colin Leonard

Colin Leonard 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).

  • Publication number: 20060209797
    Abstract: A method is provided for supplementing existing interaction routines in a contact center with added capability including acts for (a) creating at least one rule having at least one rule attribute; (b) creating one or more processes, the processes integral to the rule; (c) defining the at least one rule and integral processes as a strategy; and (d) linking the strategy to the interaction routine, the link serving to cause execution of the strategy during an interaction between an entity and the routine, execution thereof promoting further interaction defined in the strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Nikolay Anisimov, Petr Makagon, Herbert Ristock, David Anderson, Colin Leonard, Yi Zhang, Vitaliy Teryoshin
  • Patent number: 6323884
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a software-implemented mechanism for assisting a user of a graphical user interface (GUI) with the task of positioning an input device pointer (or otherwise indicating a position selection) when selecting a GUI element such as a button or other icon. The software identifies those GUI elements which are valid selections for the current application state and so are potentially the next element that the user will interact with. Then a predefined set of characteristics for the identified GUI elements are compared to predict which of these GUI elements will be the next GUI element that the user will interact with. The result of this prediction is indicated by moving the pointer to the position within the GUI of the predicted GUI element or by adding emphasis to the predicted GUI element. The user then decides whether this GUI element is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin Leonard Bird, Sydney George Chapman
  • Patent number: 6223281
    Abstract: An inherently serial program is processed in parallel, thus leading to higher processing speeds, while maintaining a close approximation to the specific result obtained through a serial running of the program. This goal has been attained based on the fact that the desired degree of closeness between a parallel result and the serial result depends on the particular inherently serial program being run and the type of analysis being performed. That is, some inherently serial processes require a “fine-tuned” result while for others a “coarser” result is acceptable. The frequency at which the parallel branches consolidate their respective results is changed accordingly to alter the degree of closeness between the parallel processed result and the serially processed result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin Leonard Bird, Christoph Lingenfelder, Robert William Phippen, Graham Derek Wallis
  • Patent number: 6049861
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reproducible sampling of data items of a dataset which is shared across a plurality of nodes of a parallel data processing system.In data mining of large databases, segmentation of the database is often necessary either to obtain a summary of the database or prior to an operation such as link analysis. A sample of data records are taken to create an initial segmentation model. The records of this sample and the initial model created from them can be critical to the results of the data mining process, and the initial model may not be reproducible unless the same sampling of data records is repeatable. Reproducible sampling is enabled without polling of all nodes to locate particular records. Parametric control information with a small number of control parameters is generated which describes the particular partitioning of the dataset. The parametric control information enables computing of the location of a data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin Leonard Bird, Graham Derek Wallis
  • Patent number: 5905904
    Abstract: A parallel processing system having a number of processing nodes (S1 . . . Sn) each of which is provided with a message handling kernel (13 . . . n3) and an associated procedure register (14 . . . n4), the procedure registers being loadable by loading means (4) under the control of an application (3) and the nodes being able to exchange messages over a message interface (2) and to process messages to determine the message handling procedures to be invoked by the associated node in accordance with the contents of the associated procedure register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin Leonard Bird, Graham Derek Wallis
  • Patent number: 5658534
    Abstract: A liquid is subjected to ultrasound within a stainless steel pipe (35) of wall thickness 2.5 mm. Three ultrasonic transducers (56) are equally spaced around the pipe, each fixed to one end of a tapered resonant coupler (46) with a nodal flange (48) by which it is supported with its wider end coaxially within a steel collar (38) welded to the outside of the pipe wall. The space around the sides and the end of the coupler is filled by a buffer liquid such as olive oil. When the transducers (56) are energised they resonate, as do the couplers (46), and ultrasound is transmitted through the buffer liquid and the wall into the liquid inside the pipe (35). Within the pipe the intensity can be sufficient to cause cavitation, and so to cause sonochemical effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: AEA Technology PLC
    Inventors: Colin Leonard Desborough, Roger Barrie Pike, Lawrence David Ward
  • Patent number: 4092637
    Abstract: An electrochromic display device having first and second electrodes, and a plurality of display electrodes, all immersed in a liquid electrolyte. Drive means act to first generate a potential difference between said first and second electrodes to cause a color species to be deposited on said first electrode and, thereafter, act to generate a potential difference between said first electrode and selected ones of said plurality of display electrodes to cause the color species to be transferred to the selected ones of said plurality of display electrodes. Heptyl viologen dibromide is suggested as one possible electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald John Barclay, Colin Leonard Bird, Michael Henry Hallett, David Horrobin Kirkman, John Francis Minshull, Charles Edward Owen