Patents by Inventor Daniel M. Schumacker

Daniel M. Schumacker 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).

  • Administering devices in dependence upon user metric vectors with multiple users
    Patent number: 7865909
    Abstract: Methods for administering devices, including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space, creating, in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list, if the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list, and executing the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Michael J. Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel M. Schumacker, Thomas J. Watson