Patents by Inventor Donald A. Hallock
Donald A. Hallock 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).
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Patent number: 9684878Abstract: This disclosure relates to tools for optimizing complex processes or systems, such as flow process charts and, more specifically to the automatic graphical renderings of processes. In an exemplary embodiment, the process is a complex process including hundreds or thousands of operations. In an exemplary embodiment, a device displays a first view that includes a complete progression diagram automatically generated from data stored in a database, and at least some directional lines of the complete progression diagram unintelligibly overlap. In response to a selection of a particular operation in the complete progression diagram, in an exemplary embodiment, the display toggles to a second view that includes a focus diagram. In an exemplary embodiment, an edit to the focus diagram is checked in real-time and rejected if the edit orphans of an object currently undergoing the process on a live production line.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James M. Bogusky, Mary Ann Emmett, Donald A. Hallock, Arden Steuart Lake, Joseph Paul Palmeri, James I. Paradies, William Madison Sipperley
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Publication number: 20170160889Abstract: Tools for optimizing complex processes or systems, such as flow process charts are provided. More specifically, processes are automatically graphically rendered and editable. A progression diagram is automatically generated from data stored in a data storage, and at least some directional lines of the progression diagram unintelligibly overlap. In response to a selection of a particular operation in the progression diagram a view is presented that includes a focus diagram. The focus diagram and progression diagram are editable to enable a change in a functional relationship between two nodes within the focus diagram and/or the progression diagram.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James M. Bogusky, Mary Ann Emmett, Donald A. Hallock, Arden Steuart Lake, Joseph Paul Palmeri, James I. Paradies, William Madison Sipperley
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Patent number: 9600785Abstract: This disclosure relates to tools for optimizing complex processes or systems, such as flow process charts and, more specifically to the automatic graphical renderings of processes. In an exemplary embodiment, the process is a complex process including hundreds or thousands of operations. In an exemplary embodiment, a device displays a first view that includes a complete progression diagram automatically generated from data stored in a database, and at least some directional lines of the complete progression diagram unintelligibly overlap. In response to a selection of a particular operation in the complete progression diagram, in an exemplary embodiment, the display toggles to a second view that includes a focus diagram. In an exemplary embodiment, an edit to the focus diagram is checked in real-time and rejected if the edit orphans an object currently undergoing the process on a live production line.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James M. Bogusky, Mary Ann Emmett, Donald A. Hallock, Arden Steuart Lake, Joseph Paul Palmeri, James I. Paradies, William Madison Sipperley
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Publication number: 20120198382Abstract: This disclosure relates to tools for optimizing complex processes or systems, such as flow process charts and, more specifically to the automatic graphical renderings of processes. In an exemplary embodiment, the process is a complex process including hundreds or thousands of operations. In an exemplary embodiment, a device displays a first view that includes a complete progression diagram automatically generated from data stored in a database, and at least some directional lines of the complete progression diagram unintelligibly overlap. In response to a selection of a particular operation in the complete progression diagram, in an exemplary embodiment, the display toggles to a second view that includes a focus diagram. In an exemplary embodiment, an edit to the focus diagram is checked in real-time and rejected if the edit orphans of an object currently undergoing the process on a live production line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: James M. Bogusky, Mary Ann Emmett, Donald A. Hallock, Arden Steuart Lake, Joseph Paul Palmeri, James I. Paradies, William Madison Sipperley
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Publication number: 20120198390Abstract: This disclosure relates to tools for optimizing complex processes or systems, such as flow process charts and, more specifically to the automatic graphical renderings of processes. In an exemplary embodiment, the process is a complex process including hundreds or thousands of operations. In an exemplary embodiment, a device displays a first view that includes a complete progression diagram automatically generated from data stored in a database, and at least some directional lines of the complete progression diagram unintelligibly overlap. In response to a selection of a particular operation in the complete progression diagram, in an exemplary embodiment, the display toggles to a second view that includes a focus diagram. In an exemplary embodiment, an edit to the focus diagram is checked in real-time and rejected if the edit orphans of an object currently undergoing the process on a live production line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: James M. Bogusky, Mary Ann Emmett, Donald A. Hallock, Arden Steuart Lake, Joseph Paul Palmeri, James I. Paradies, William Madison Sipperley
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Patent number: 8184898Abstract: A system to facilitate analysis of component leads is provided and includes a device to form a picture of the leads, from which an image is extracted, to apportion the image and to perform first and second scans of the portions, and a processor, including a memory unit having a set of computer-readable executable instructions stored thereon, which, when executed, cause the processor to receive data of each scan, to establish a rule, based on the data of the first scan of any one portion, governing when to judge that the data of the second scan of the one portion indicates a defect, to determine rule compliance for each of the second scans, to judge that any one second scan in a non-compliance state indicates a defect, and to report a location of the defect. A display unit displays the report to a user.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donald A. Hallock, Vincent P. Mulligan, Joseph P. Paul, James I. Paradies, Nandu N. Ranadive
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Publication number: 20100246935Abstract: A system to facilitate analysis of component leads is provided and includes a device to form a picture of the leads, from which an image is extracted, to apportion the image and to perform first and second scans of the portions, and a processor, including a memory unit having a set of computer-readable executable instructions stored thereon, which, when executed, cause the processor to receive data of each scan, to establish a rule, based on the data of the first scan of any one portion, governing when to judge that the data of the second scan of the one portion indicates a defect, to determine rule compliance for each of the second scans, to judge that any one second scan in a non-compliance state indicates a defect, and to report a location of the defect. A display unit displays the report to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donald A. Hallock, Vincent P. Mulligan, Joseph P. Palmeri, James I. Paradies, Nandu N. Ranadive