Patents by Inventor Dawn Ashley Comfort

Dawn Ashley Comfort 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: 7308652
    Abstract: A keyboard graphic is displayed on a touch-sensitive display screen of a computing system when it is determined that a password should be entered, so that the password can be entered by touching individual spaces within the keyboard graphic. The keyboard graphic may be thus displayed several times during the operation of the system, including following a predetermined period in which no user input is made to the computing system, under control of a subroutine operating as a screen saver subroutine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte. Ltd
    Inventors: Dawn Ashley Comfort, Robert John Schule
  • Patent number: 7188156
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a method, a system and a computer program product for selecting data to be presented in a report form. A selector window is displayed to a user, the selector window displaying periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which data is available. The periods of time are displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions. In response to the user selecting a point on a time line, the method, system and computer program product displays a report of that data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Randal Lee Bertram, Dawn Ashley Comfort, Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss, James C. Cook
  • Publication number: 20040199826
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a method, a system and a computer program product for selecting data to be presented in a report form. A selector window is displayed to a user, the selector window displaying periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which data is available. The periods of time are displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions. In response to the user selecting a point on a time line, the method, system and computer program product displays a report of that data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Randal Lee Bertram, Dawn Ashley Comfort, Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss, James C. Cook
  • Patent number: 6757681
    Abstract: A system and method for requesting, providing, and displaying data relating to performance of a network is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system include allowing a user to select the at least one system from which data is requested, identify at least one data type for which data is requested, select a sampling interval for sampling data for the at least one data type, and identify a time period for which data of the at least one data type is requested. In an second aspect, the method and system include receiving the request, retrieving at least one value for the at least one data type if the at least one data type is available on the at least one system, and calculating an average value for the sampling interval. The method and system include saving the average value for the sampling interval in a report and repeating the retrieving, calculating, and saving steps for each sampling interval in the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Randal Lee Bertram, Margherita LaFauci, Dawn Ashley Comfort
  • Publication number: 20020196274
    Abstract: A keyboard graphic is displayed on a touch-sensitive display screen of a computing system when it is determined that a password should be entered, so that the password can be entered by touching individual spaces within the keyboard graphic. The keyboard graphic may be thus displayed several times during the operation of the system, including following a predetermined period in which no user input is made to the computing system, under control of a subroutine operating as a screen saver subroutine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dawn Ashley Comfort, Robert John Schule