Patents by Inventor DINAH H. LIN

DINAH H. LIN 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: 8477921
    Abstract: A computer implemented method manages participation in a teleconference. Teleconference inputs from participants of a teleconference are monitored for use of an unrelated term, which is a term that has been deemed unrelated to a topic of the teleconference. Upon determining that an errant participant is using the unrelated term in at least one of the teleconference inputs, an alert is generated to prompt the errant participant to limit future teleconference inputs to the topic of the teleconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng-Wei Chen, Ying Chen, Dinah H. Lin, Latha Sivakumar
  • Publication number: 20120002798
    Abstract: A computer implemented method manages participation in a teleconference. Teleconference inputs from participants of a teleconference are monitored for use of an unrelated term, which is a term that has been deemed unrelated to a topic of the teleconference. Upon determining that an errant participant is using the unrelated term in at least one of the teleconference inputs, an alert is generated to prompt the errant participant to limit future teleconference inputs to the topic of the teleconference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: FENG-WEI CHEN, YING CHEN, DINAH H. LIN, LATHA SIVAKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20090327973
    Abstract: An action history maintains a set of ordered application actions associated with a user. A user interface of a software application can include a back control and a forward control, which utilize the action history. Specifically, the back control revokes a most recent action and the forward control reapplies a previously revoked action. Thus, the forward and backward controls change which page is rendered in the software application. Unlike traditional implementations, the invention maintains a complete set of actions within the action history in a non-linear context. That is, when a new action is inserted into a history from a non-terminal state (i.e., actions able to be reapplied are available upon a selection of the forward control) then the new action is inserted immediately after the current action. The historic actions are maintained in order after the new action in the action history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: PUCCI LEE, DINAH H. LIN, PRATIK P. SHAH, ZHENG ZHANG