Patents by Inventor Howard A. Abrams

Howard A. Abrams 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: 9324000
    Abstract: Image processing is performed to identify an image of a physical object within a digital image. A boundary of the image of the physical object may be determined. A coded reference identifier that is contained within the boundary of the image of the physical object may be recognized. A database record for the coded reference identifier may be associated with a database record for the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Serguei Mankovskii, Maria C. Velez-Rojas, Howard Abrams
  • Publication number: 20160026888
    Abstract: Image processing is performed to identify an image of a physical object within a digital image. A boundary of the image of the physical object may be determined. A coded reference identifier that is contained within the boundary of the image of the physical object may be recognized. A database record for the coded reference identifier may be associated with a database record for the physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Serguei Mankovskii, Maria C. Velez-Rojas, Howard Abrams
  • Patent number: 9170716
    Abstract: A management server in a communications network receives information for display at a plurality of user devices. The information includes multiple user interface components for display on the user devices. Upon receiving the information, the management server identifies the different components and selectively distributes the components to different ones of the user devices based on predefined routing data stored in a memory accessible to the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven L. Greenspan, Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic, Gabriel M. Silberman
  • Publication number: 20150205471
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for providing a configurable user interface comprises receiving, by a server computer, a request for information to be rendered in a user interface; and in response to the request, sending, by the server computer, the information to be rendered and an identifier related to one of a plurality of user interface components. Also, in response to the request, the server computer sends a registry of the plurality of user interface components, wherein the registry comprises a respective entry for each of the plurality of user interface components. More particularly, the respective entry for a particular one of the plurality of user interface components comprises: a) a location of a configuration associated with the particular one user interface component; and b) a plurality of attributes and corresponding attribute values associated with the particular one user interface component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
  • Publication number: 20150205470
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for providing a configurable user interface comprises receiving, by a server computer, a request for information to be rendered in a user interface; and in response to the request, sending, by the server computer, the information to be rendered and an identifier related to one of a plurality of user interface components. Also, in response to the request, the server computer sends a registry of the plurality of user interface components, wherein the registry comprises a respective entry for each of the plurality of user interface components. More particularly, the respective entry for a particular one of the plurality of user interface components comprises: a) a location of a configuration associated with the particular one user interface component; and b) a plurality of attributes and corresponding attribute values associated with the particular one user interface component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
  • Patent number: 9009804
    Abstract: A hybrid software as a service (SaaS) delivery model allows an enterprise to control sensitive data while application code and non-sensitive data are downloaded from a software provider. A client computing device of the enterprise downloads the application code, which determines an appearance and a behavior of a user interface of the application. The application code is also configured, such as with a network address of a database, to allow the client computing device to access the sensitive data which is hosted by the enterprise. The client computing device may download a file from the enterprise which accesses the application code. For example, an HTML file may access scripting code. Or, the client computing device downloads the application code directly from the software provider, in which case cross-origin resource sharing allows the client computing device to access the sensitive data hosted by the enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
  • Patent number: 8977646
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a database query for a first database and determining whether a second database contains data responsive to the database query, wherein the second database comprises a graph database. The method also includes retrieving responsive data from a memory device associated with the second database if it is determined that the second database contains data responsive to the database query. The method further includes responding to the database query by providing the responsive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Mark J. Addleman
  • Publication number: 20140157380
    Abstract: A hybrid software as a service (SaaS) delivery model allows an enterprise to control sensitive data while application code and non-sensitive data are downloaded from a software provider. A client computing device of the enterprise downloads the application code, which determines an appearance and a behavior of a user interface of the application. The application code is also configured, such as with a network address of a database, to allow the client computing device to access the sensitive data which is hosted by the enterprise. The client computing device may download a file from the enterprise which accesses the application code. For example, an HTML file may access scripting code. Or, the client computing device downloads the application code directly from the software provider, in which case cross-origin resource sharing allows the client computing device to access the sensitive data hosted by the enterprise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: CA, INC.
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
  • Publication number: 20140082155
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for providing a configurable user interface comprises receiving, by a server computer, a request for information to be rendered in a user interface; and in response to the request, sending, by the server computer, the information to be rendered and an identifier related to one of a plurality of user interface components. Also, in response to the request, the server computer sends a registry of the plurality of user interface components, wherein the registry comprises a respective entry for each of the plurality of user interface components. More particularly, the respective entry for a particular one of the plurality of user interface components comprises: a) a location of a configuration associated with the particular one user interface component; and b) a plurality of attributes and corresponding attribute values associated with the particular one user interface component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: CA, INC.
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
  • Publication number: 20130339385
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a database query for a first database and determining whether a second database contains data responsive to the database query, wherein the second database comprises a graph database. The method also includes retrieving responsive data from a memory device associated with the second database if it is determined that the second database contains data responsive to the database query. The method further includes responding to the database query by providing the responsive data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Mark J. Addleman
  • Publication number: 20130138681
    Abstract: A method includes identifying a first set of metadata associated with a database and retrieving the first set of metadata from one or more first memory locations. The method also includes identifying, based on the first set of metadata, a second set of metadata associated with the database and retrieving the second set of metadata from one or more second memory locations. The method further includes combining the first set of metadata and the second set of metadata into a set of combined metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: COMPUTER ASSOCIATES THINK, INC.
    Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Mark J. Addleman, Jay M. Cohen
  • Publication number: 20080064295
    Abstract: A powered toy car is movable along a track mounted on horizontal and/or vertical surfaces of a room. The car is magnetically attracted to the track to prevent the car from falling from the track when the track is mounted on the vertical walls and/or the ceiling of the room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventor: Howard Abrams
  • Publication number: 20070222788
    Abstract: According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method for sharing rendering of a user interface component for an information handling application comprises instructing a plurality of information handling application components, using an information handling application code, to send a particular component to be rendered by one of a plurality of universal renderers, wherein each universal renderer is associated with a respective one of the information handling application components. The method continues by rendering the particular information handling application component to produce a rendered information handling application component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventor: Howard Abrams
  • Publication number: 20060283938
    Abstract: A monitoring method includes detecting instances of physical presence of at least one individual, storing location information identifying the at least one individual and information related to the instances, displaying on a display a visual image of a physical environment and displaying on the display an image depicting the at least one individual's movements through the physical environment based on the stored location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Divekar, Howard Abrams
  • Patent number: 7145457
    Abstract: A security method including receiving data from devices and normalizing the received data based on uniquely identified objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles F. Spitz, Howard A. Abrams
  • Publication number: 20050139733
    Abstract: A rigid refuse bag liner for insertion into a yard refuse bag for supporting the yard refuse bag in an open condition. The rigid yard refuse bag liner is an elongated enclosure having an open bottom and having a tapered construction such that its bottom portion is wider than its top portion, which facilitates the removal of the rigid liner once the refuse bag liner/refuse bag are filled with yard refuse. To further facilitate this removal, air vents running through the enclosure permit the passage of air as the rigid liner is lifted upward, out of the yard bag. A compactor is associated with the rigid liner whereby the compactor is a planar surface coupled to a handle that the user can grasp and apply pressure to in order to compact the yard refuse that has already been collected. The rigid refuse bag liner can be inserted into a yard refuse bag and that combination can then be used on a bagger attachment device coupled to a riding lawn mower for automatically collecting grass cuttings therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventor: Howard Abrams
  • Publication number: 20050099288
    Abstract: A security method including receiving data from devices and normalizing the received data based on uniquely identified objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Charles Spitz, Howard Abrams
  • Patent number: 6860094
    Abstract: A rigid refuse bag liner for insertion into a yard refuse bag for supporting the yard refuse bag in an open condition. The rigid yard refuse bag liner is an elongated enclosure having an open bottom and having a tapered construction such that its bottom portion is wider than its top portion, which facilitates the removal of the rigid liner once the refuse bag liner/refuse bag are filled with yard refuse. To further facilitate this removal, air vents running through the enclosure permit the passage of air as the rigid liner is lifted upward, out of the yard bag. A compactor is associated with the rigid liner whereby the compactor is a planar surface coupled to a handle that the user can grasp and apply pressure to in order to compact the yard refuse that has already been collected. The rigid refuse bag liner can be inserted into a yard refuse bag and that combination can then be used on a bagger attachment device coupled to a riding lawn mower for automatically collecting grass cuttings therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventor: Howard Abrams
  • Publication number: 20020099770
    Abstract: A method, software program and computer network allow multiple users to communicate in a shared virtual environment while efficiently using available data transmission capabilities for providing to each user efficient communications access to interesting entities such as other users and generalized information. The network preferably includes a host interactivity server and multiple client computers. The method includes establishing a connection and a context between the server and each client computer and negotiating an interest expression of a client based on information relating to a subject user, and based on available bandwidth and network traffic. Transmission is, based the interest expression, then permitted to the client of interesting entities, while uninteresting entities are filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Muse Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Lindo, Howard Abrams
  • Publication number: 20020099858
    Abstract: A network communications protocol program includes an active protocol stack and an inactive protocol stack, wherein a component from the inactive stack may be called into the active stack when a particular data communications type is detected. The component may be deactivated when the particular data communications type is finished. The program preferably includes socket layer, channel layer and message handling layer components for permitting and extracting communications over a network. The socket layer component receives data from a sender over a network, and defragments and reassembles the data for multiplexing and distributing data portions into multiple channels according to the data formats the data portions resemble. The channel layer component includes channels arranged according to the multiple data formats. The channel layer receives the data portions processed by the socket layer and multiplexes and distributes new data portions according to which of multiple APIs the data is directed to.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Muse Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Lindo, Mark Barnes, Howard Abrams