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).
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Patent number: 9324000Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Serguei Mankovskii, Maria C. Velez-Rojas, Howard Abrams
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Publication number: 20160026888Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Serguei Mankovskii, Maria C. Velez-Rojas, Howard Abrams
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Patent number: 9170716Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Steven L. Greenspan, Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic, Gabriel M. Silberman
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Publication number: 20150205471Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
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Publication number: 20150205470Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
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Patent number: 9009804Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
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Patent number: 8977646Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Mark J. Addleman
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Publication number: 20140157380Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: CA, INC.Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
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Publication number: 20140082155Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: CA, INC.Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Stanislav Mitranic
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Publication number: 20130339385Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: CA, Inc.Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Mark J. Addleman
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Publication number: 20130138681Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: COMPUTER ASSOCIATES THINK, INC.Inventors: Howard A. Abrams, Mark J. Addleman, Jay M. Cohen
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Publication number: 20080064295Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2006Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventor: Howard Abrams
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Publication number: 20070222788Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventor: Howard Abrams
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Publication number: 20060283938Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2005Publication date: December 21, 2006Inventors: Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Divekar, Howard Abrams
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Patent number: 7145457Abstract: A security method including receiving data from devices and normalizing the received data based on uniquely identified objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2004Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.Inventors: Charles F. Spitz, Howard A. Abrams
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Publication number: 20050139733Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2005Publication date: June 30, 2005Inventor: Howard Abrams
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Publication number: 20050099288Abstract: A security method including receiving data from devices and normalizing the received data based on uniquely identified objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Inventors: Charles Spitz, Howard Abrams
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Patent number: 6860094Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Inventor: Howard Abrams
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Publication number: 20020099770Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: Muse CorporationInventors: Jonathan Lindo, Howard Abrams
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Publication number: 20020099858Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: Muse CorporationInventors: Jonathan Lindo, Mark Barnes, Howard Abrams