Patents by Inventor Helen Y. BALINSKY

Helen Y. BALINSKY 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: 9703606
    Abstract: Detecting a workflow termination. An object with embedded access control is sent to a next participant in a workflow, wherein the embedded access control is provided and enforced by placing a subset of access keys for individual content-parts into a unique key-map entry for each participant, wherein the object is a Publicly Posted Composite Document. A workflow termination is detected after failure to receive a confirmation token from the next participant after a specified condition is not met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Helen Y Balinsky, Liqun Chen, Steven J Simske
  • Publication number: 20150022844
    Abstract: A user profile includes user credentials that are accessible from a multifunction device. A user credential is selected from the user profile using the multifunction device. The selected user credential is used to perform a workflow action at the multifunction device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Helen Y. Balinsky, Jon T. Huber, Cesare Gritti
  • Publication number: 20140195897
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions, and/or logic are provided for text summarization. An example method of text summarization can include determining, via a computing system (674), a graph (314) with a small world structure, corresponding to a document (300) comprising text, wherein nodes (316) of the graph (314) correspond to text features (302, 304) of the document (300) and edges (318) between particular nodes (316) represent relationships between the text features (302, 304) represented by the particular nodes (316) (440). The nodes (316) (442) are ranked via the computing system (674), and those nodes (316) having importance in the small world structure (444) are identified via the computing system. Text features (302, 304) corresponding to the indentified nodes (316) are selected, via the computing system (674), as a summary (334) of the document (300) (446).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Helen Y. Balinsky, Alexander Balinsky, Steven J. Simske
  • Patent number: 8732481
    Abstract: A workflow order is created for the object. Public parameters are received from a key generation center at a computer associated with an object master. A public key is generated at the computer system based on a user identifier and the public parameters, wherein the user identifier is comprised of user related information. The object is encrypted using the public key such that the object cannot be opened without the a private key, wherein the object is a composite document comprising multiple elements of documents of different formats, and wherein the private key is generated in response to a request from an authenticated user using the user identifier at the key generation center. Access to the multiple elements of the object is controlled based on workflow order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Helen Y. Balinsky, Liqun Chen, Steven J Simske
  • Publication number: 20140082095
    Abstract: Systems, computer readable media, and methods for workflow monitoring of documents are provided. An example of a workflow monitoring system includes a document having a map-file for each participant in a workflow of the document and a first communication mechanism to transmit the document to a receiving participant in the workflow. The system includes an application, associated with a receiving device of the receiving participant, to extract a confirmation token from the map-file and transmit the confirmation token and a second communication mechanism, different from the first communication mechanism, to transmit a direct message including at least the confirmation token to verify receipt of the document by the receiving participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Helen Y. Balinsky, Steven J. Simske
  • Publication number: 20130198524
    Abstract: A workflow order is created for the object. Public parameters are received from a key generation center at a computer associated with an object master. A public key is generated at the computer system based on a user identifier and the public parameters, wherein the user identifier is comprised of user related information. The object is encrypted using the public key such that the object cannot be opened without the a private key, wherein the object is a composite document comprising multiple elements of documents of different formats, and wherein the private key is generated in response to a request from an authenticated user using the user identifier at the key generation center. Access to the multiple elements of the object is controlled based on workflow order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Helen Y. Balinsky, Liqun Chen, Steven J. Simske
  • Publication number: 20130198255
    Abstract: Detecting a workflow termination. An object with embedded access control is sent to a next participant in a workflow, wherein the embedded access control is provided and enforced by placing a subset of access keys for individual content-parts into a unique key-map entry for each participant, wherein the object is a Publicly Posted Composite Document. A workflow termination is detected after failure to receive a confirmation token from the next participant after a specified condition is not met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Helen Y. BALINSKY, Liqun Chen, Steven J. Simske