Patents by Inventor FRANK R. AYARS

FRANK R. AYARS 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).

  • DEFERRING CLASSIFICATION OF A DECLARED RECORD
    Publication number: 20110218995
    Abstract: A records management system classifies records according to a file plan. Record are declared, and then classified. Some records have in initially indeterminate classification and classification is deferred, either by request or due to a lack of sufficient information to classify the record according to the file plan. Unclassified records are placed into a temporary container. At some time while in the temporary container a classification event occurs with a given record which allows the records management system to classify the record and place it into a container corresponding to its classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: FRANK R. AYARS, YI-JEN LIN, YVONNE W. SANTIAGO, LI ZHOU