Patents by Inventor Frank Richard Bauerle

Frank Richard Bauerle 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).

  • Executing a command on an optimal smart device
    Patent number: 9703616
    Abstract: Executing a command on an optimal smart device. One aspect of the present invention provides a method for executing a command. The method includes: receiving a command at a plurality of smart devices; determining a score for each smart device of the plurality of smart devices; communicating the score between each smart device of the plurality of smart devices; comparing the score between each smart device of the plurality of smart devices; and executing the command at one smart device of the plurality of smart devices based on comparing the score between each smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Richard Bauerle, Grant Douglas Miller, Nader M Nassar, Tamer Nassar, Irene Robin Penney
  • EXECUTING A COMMAND ON AN OPTIMAL SMART DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160041851
    Abstract: Executing a command on an optimal smart device. One aspect of the present invention provides a method for executing a command. The method includes: receiving a command at a plurality of smart devices; determining a score for each smart device of the plurality of smart devices; communicating the score between each smart device of the plurality of smart devices; comparing the score between each smart device of the plurality of smart devices; and executing the command at one smart device of the plurality of smart devices based on comparing the score between each smart device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Frank Richard Bauerle, Grant Douglas Miller, Nader M. Nassar, Tamer Nassar, Irene Robin Penney
  • Multiple-node supply chain price determination via mobile phone text message
    Publication number: 20150206236
    Abstract: In a hierarchical multiple-node supply chain, a commodity is sold a first time at a first end of the supply chain and is resold multiple times across the supply chain before being sold a final time at a second end of the supply chain opposite the first end. A user who is a buyer and/or a seller within the supply chain is interacted with by exchanging text messages with a mobile phone device of the user to provide the user with a current price of the commodity for a type of the user within the supply chain, and to receive from the user an actual price of the commodity in a current transaction in which the user was involved. The type of the user includes a node within the supply chain to which the user corresponds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Richard Bauerle, Grant Douglas Miller, Nader M. Nassar, Tamer M. Nassar, Irene Robin Penney