Patents by Inventor David Wall

David Wall 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: 20130046547
    Abstract: Administering a business transaction, including: receiving a request for a business transaction, the request containing data to be processed by the business transaction and metadata describing the data and the request; creating, in dependence upon classification rules, the data to be processed by the business transaction, and the metadata describing the data and the request, a business object representing the business transaction; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and attributes of the business object, one or more workflows to process the data to be processed by the business transaction; processing the data to be processed by the business transaction with the workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant data; and routing, in dependence upon content routing rules and the attributes of the resultant business object, the resultant data to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis M. Drucker, Joel C. Dubbels, William C. Rapp, Richard J. Stevens, David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20120284303
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for accessing data within data repositories. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to provide access to data residing in a variety of data repositories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas R. Fish, Hoa T. Tran, David A. Wall
  • Patent number: 8271463
    Abstract: Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for accessing data within data repositories. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to provide access to data residing in a variety of data repositories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Fish, Hoa T. Tran, David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20120221728
    Abstract: Administering medical digital images including receiving a medical image business object representing a transaction carrying out a type of service request made by a health care provider; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image according to the transaction; and processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image including selecting, by the workflow dispatcher in dependence upon metadata for computational units in the distributed medical digital image computing environment, particular computational units in the distributed medical digital image computing environment to perform particular services of the one or more clinical workflows, deploying the particular services to the particular computational units, and executing the services on the computational units upon which they are deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Richard J. Stevens, David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20120221354
    Abstract: Administering medical digital images including receiving a request for an image processing transaction to process the medical digital image; storing the medical image in one or more medical image caches; creating a medical image business object representing the business transaction; storing the medical image business object in the medical image metadata database; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image; processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image; routing the resultant medical image to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20120221346
    Abstract: Administering medical digital images including receiving a request for an image processing transaction to process the medical digital image; creating a medical image business object representing the business transaction; storing the medical image business object in the medical image metadata database; storing the medical image in the medical image repository; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image; processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image; routing the resultant medical image to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Warren P. Acker, Travis M. Drucker, Joel C. Dubbels, Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Janice R. Glowacki, William C. Rapp, Richard J. Stevens, David A. Wall, Laurie A. Williams
  • Patent number: 8230326
    Abstract: The present invention generally provides methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing an annotation system that includes storing annotations for a document family, i.e., a series of versions of a data source. Annotations created for one version of the data source may be viewed in context from both subsequent and prior versions of the same data source. Embodiments of the invention associate annotations with both a data source “family identifier” as well as a “version identifier.” Other than adding a family ID to the data source, the data source remains unchanged. The family ID is maintained across different versions of the data source, whereas version IDs are determined for a specific version of the data source. Version IDs can be constructed from each data source directly, and do not need to be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jordi A. Albornoz, Lee D. Feigenbaum, Douglas R. Fish, Sean J. Martin, Hoa T. Tran, David A. Wall
  • Patent number: 8222245
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazole derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of various disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: Emmanuel Hubert Demont, Jag Paul Heer, John Skidmore, Ian David Wall, Jason Witherington, Thomas Daniel Heightman, David Nigel Hurst, Christopher Norbert Johnson
  • Publication number: 20120172366
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein A is hydrogen, C1-4alkyl, C3-6cycloalkyl, C1-3alkoxy, C1-3alkoxy C1-4alkyl, C1-2fluoroalkyl, halogen, NR6R7, optionally substituted heteroaryl, or optionally substituted phenyl, and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are as defined in the description. The compounds or salts are thought to modulate P2X7 receptor function and to be capable of antagonizing the effects of ATP at the P2X7 receptor. The invention also provides the use of the compound or salt in the treatment or prophylaxis of, for example, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, visceral pain, rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis or neurodegenerative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: David Kenneth Dean, Jorge Munoz-Muriedas, Mairi Sime, Jon Graham Anthony Steadman, Rachel Elizabeth Anne Thewlis, Giancarlo Trani, Ian David Wall, Daryl Simon Walter
  • Publication number: 20120103837
    Abstract: A trace gas sensing apparatus includes a cathode, an anode, a vacuum enclosure, and a membrane. The anode coaxially surrounds the cathode, wherein the cathode and the anode define an annular ionization chamber. The vacuum enclosure surrounds the cathode and the anode and includes a gas inlet fluidly communicating with the ionization chamber. The membrane is coupled to the gas inlet in a sealed manner and is permselective to trace gas. The apparatus may further include circuitry for applying a negative voltage potential to the cathode and for measuring an ion current signal generated by the cathode, and a magnet assembly for generating a magnetic field in the ionization chamber. The cathode may include an elongated member located along a longitudinal axis, and first and second end plates orthogonal to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: David Wall, J. Daniel Geist, Stephen M. Elliot
  • Patent number: 7895228
    Abstract: The availability of one or more databases targeted by a federated query may be determined prior to running the federated query against the targeted databases. In response to determining one or more of the targeted databases are unavailable, a user may be notified. The user may also be presented with options for running the federated query. The options may include being notified when all of the targeted databases are available, automatically running the federated query (in the background) when all of the targeted databases are available, and modifying the query to run against currently available databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Douglas R. Fish, Cale T. Rath, David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20100273771
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazole derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of various disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Emmanuel Hubert Demont, Jag Paul Heer, John Skidmore, Ian David Wall, Jason Witherington, Thomas Daniel Heightman, David Nigel Hurst, Christopher Norbert Johnson
  • Publication number: 20100273770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazole derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of various disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Jag Paul Heer, Thomas Daniel Heightman, David Nigel Hurst, Christopher Norbert Johnson, John Skidmore, Ian David Wall
  • Publication number: 20100174065
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazole derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of various disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: GLAXO GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Jag Paul HEER, Thomas Daniel HEIGHTMAN, David Nigel HURST, Christopher Norbert JOHNSON, John SKIDMORE, Ian David WALL
  • Publication number: 20090264452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyrimidine derivatives such as compounds of the formula (I): and the use of such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions thereof in the treatment of diseases, particularly pain, which are mediated by the activity of the cannabinoid 2 receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Andrew John Eatherton, Gerard Martin Paul Giblin, William Leonard Mitchell, Alan Naylor, Derek Anthony Rawlings, Ian David Wall
  • Patent number: 7502809
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for proving global annotation services are disclosed. Global annotations are used to annotate a data element independently from the internal representation of a data element employed by a particular software application. Data elements are normalized into a form used by a global annotation system to identify the data element, and corresponding global annotations, independent from the application in which the data element may appear. An annotation cache may be used to store the global annotations that have been created for a particular data source, improving the efficiency of the global annotation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jordi A. Albornoz, Brian J. Cragun, Christine A. Grev, Hoa T. Tran, David A. Wall
  • Patent number: 7464073
    Abstract: An improved method, system, and article of manufacture for issuing a query against multiple data sources that may not each contain all the fields involved in the query is provided. A diverse query targeting the multiple data sources may be decomposed into individual query predicates. For each data source, an effective query may be generated by removing, from the diverse query, individual predicates involving fields not contained in the data source. Partial results received in response to issuing the effective queries against their corresponding data sources may be merged using any suitable technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Stevens, David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20080280952
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyridine derivatives such as compounds of the formula (I): and the use of such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions thereof in the treatment of diseases, particularly pain, which are mediated by the activity of the cannabinoid 2 receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Gerard Martin Paul Giblin, Karamjit Singh Jandu, William Leonard Mitchell, Ian David Wall
  • Publication number: 20080222512
    Abstract: The present invention generally provides methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing an annotation system that includes storing annotations for a document family, i.e., a series of versions of a data source. Annotations created for one version of the data source may be viewed in context from both subsequent and prior versions of the same data source. Embodiments of the invention associate annotations with both a data source “family identifier” as well as a “version identifier.” Other than adding a family ID to the data source, the data source remains unchanged. The family ID is maintained across different versions of the data source, whereas version IDs are determined for a specific version of the data source. Version IDs can be constructed from each data source directly, and do not need to be stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Jordi A. Albornoz, Lee D. Feigenbaum, Douglas R. Fish, Sean J. Martin, Hoa T. Tran, David A. Wall
  • Publication number: 20070219972
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a system, method and article of manufacture for managing federated queries. In general, the availability of one or more databases targeted by a federated query may be determined prior to running the federated query against the targeted databases. In response to determining one or more of the targeted databases are unavailable, a user may be notified. The user may also be presented with options for running the federated query. The options may include being notified when all of the targeted databases are available, automatically running the federated query (in the background) when all of the targeted databases are available, and modifying the query to run against currently available databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Cragun, Douglas Fish, Cale Rath, David Wall