Patents by Inventor Heather L. SAUNDERS

Heather L. SAUNDERS 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).

  • Patent number: 10885808
    Abstract: Systems and methods for curating tutorials based on historic user data are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method, comprises: receiving login information from a user device via a network connection, the login information identifying a user of the user device; determining current conditions of the user device, including features of the user device; determining features of one or more devices or software previously utilized by the user based on historic user data in a profile of the user; identifying one or more differences by comparing the features of the user device with the features of the one or more devices or software previously utilized by the user; determining that tutorials include a relevant tutorial related to the identified one or more differences; and sending an option to initiate the relevant tutorial to the user device via the network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heather L. Saunders, Alexandra D. Markello, Dana L. Price
  • Patent number: 10635559
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining data integrity across multiple applications are disclosed. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes monitoring, by a computing device, user data across multiple computer applications to detect trackable data, the trackable data including a first data set associated with a first application and a second data set associated with a second application; tracking, by the computing device, the trackable data; determining, by the computing device, that the first data set is similar to the second data set; identifying, by the computing device, a discrepancy between the first data set and the second data set; and implementing, by the computing device, a change to the first data set based on the second data set to automatically maintain integrity of the first and second data sets across the respective first and second applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexandra D. Markello, Dana L. Price, Heather L. Saunders
  • Publication number: 20190096280
    Abstract: Systems and methods for curating tutorials based on historic user data are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method, comprises: receiving login information from a user device via a network connection, the login information identifying a user of the user device; determining current conditions of the user device, including features of the user device; determining features of one or more devices or software previously utilized by the user based on historic user data in a profile of the user; identifying one or more differences by comparing the features of the user device with the features of the one or more devices or software previously utilized by the user; determining that tutorials include a relevant tutorial related to the identified one or more differences; and sending an option to initiate the relevant tutorial to the user device via the network connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Heather L. SAUNDERS, Alexandra D. MARKELLO, Dana L. PRICE
  • Publication number: 20180150338
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining data integrity across multiple applications are disclosed. A computer-implemented method comprises: monitoring, by a computing device, user data across multiple computer applications to detect trackable data, the trackable data including a first data set associated with a first application and a second data set associated with a second application; tracking, by the computing device, the trackable data; determining, by the computing device, that the first data set is similar to the second data set; identifying, by the computing device, a discrepancy between the first data set and the second data set; and implementing, by the computing device, a change to the first data set based on the second data set to automatically maintain integrity of the first and second data sets across the respective first and second applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Alexandra D. MARKELLO, Dana L. PRICE, Heather L. SAUNDERS