Patents by Inventor Gerald L. Mitchell, Jr.

Gerald L. Mitchell, Jr. 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).

  • Publication number: 20170098196
    Abstract: Methods and systems for predicting a start time of an event include determining a previous start time for a recurring event based on data collected from individual attendees. A probable future start time for the event is estimated based on the previous start time using a processor. The probable future start time is published to one or more prospective attendees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Darryl M. Adderly, Christopher T. Boulton, Bryan D. Cardillo, Gerald L. Mitchell, JR., Kevin L. Schultz
  • Patent number: 8302028
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for providing improved display of a host terminal application interface. A host application translator reads characters stored in a character buffer of a computer host terminal application that is displayed to a user as a table of horizontal rows and vertical columns of characters. The host application translator receives a preference that determines which vertical columns are to be displayed and a second preference that determines the order in which the vertical columns are to be displayed. The host application translator reconfigures the display of the characters by displaying the vertical columns indicated by the first preference in the order indicated by the second preference and displaying information corresponding to the vertical columns that are not indicated by the first preference, thus providing user-selectable controls to expand or collapse this information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald E. Craig, Gerald L. Mitchell, Jr., Masaaki Takamiya
  • Patent number: 8069416
    Abstract: As a user navigates through a sequence of screens by selecting certain “aid” keys, a graph will be built reflecting the navigation history of the user. When a user requests a certain screen by selecting a particular key, screen data is received from a host on a web server. The screen data for the requested screen is compared to the screen data for the screen(s) in the graph associated with the selected key. If a match is established, the user has visited this screen before and its data has already been converted (e.g., scraped). As such, the screen can be retrieved from storage and served to the user. If, however, a match cannot be established, the requested screen will be converted and stored, and the graph will be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel A. Cohen, James M. Mathewson, II, Gerald L. Mitchell, Jr., Srinivasan Muralidharan