Patents by Inventor George L. Fridrich

George L. Fridrich 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).

  • Intelligent subscription builder
    Patent number: 7970889
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for enabling end users to subscribe to information content, without requiring the end user to initiate the subscription process. User patterns are observed, and content subscriptions are offered to users based on these observations. Preferably, the user is allowed to customize the offered subscription, including conditions to be evaluated before content is considered as being of interest to this user, and/or one or more actions to be taken when the conditions are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, George L. Fridrich, Mohit Jain
  • Intelligent data query builder
    Patent number: 7711742
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for programmatically determining one or more logical choices to be offered to users as conditions of a data query (e.g., for searching a content source), and enabling extensions to already-established queries to be programmatically created. A number of different aspects are described, and include programmatically determining all query conditions as well as allowing a user to specify (or request programmatic determination of) further conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie M. Bennett, George L. Fridrich, Mohit Jain