Patents by Inventor Howard Glaser

Howard Glaser 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: 20060143247
    Abstract: Appropriate actions are identified and associated with a selected artifact in a framework providing a customized application program. A metamodel is specified for a capture of relevant information pertaining to the selected artifact. This metamodel is implemented as a plugin which is integratable into the framework and which allows other plugins of the framework to access the relevant information pertaining to the selected artifact. A collection artifact is generated containing an empty instantiation of the metamodel in which an instantiation of the metamodel may be stored, and the collection artifact is sent to a target platform. On the target platform, the collection artifact containing an instance of the selected artifact is instantiated, and each instantiation of the selected artifact instance contains attributes, characteristics, and a replica of the selected artifact's content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Rebecca Poole, Laurence England, Howard Glaser
  • Publication number: 20060136381
    Abstract: A method for a text based search is disclosed. The method comprises providing search results which include at least one indexed self contained document. The method also includes obtaining a search term from a previous URL of the at least one self contained document by a broker, the broker including the unique identifier (UID) of the at least one self contained document. Additionally, the method includes mapping the UID to an actual URL of the at least one included self contained document by the broker. Finally, the method comprises linking to the at least one self contained document, by the broker. A system and method in accordance with the present invention includes a web based (non visual) mediator/broker which has logic to acquire information necessary to pass requests to another web resource via parameters passed in the URL and/or by retrieving the previous URL and examining its content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Howard Glaser, Michael Etgen
  • Publication number: 20060036599
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for identifying the content representation value of a set of terms. The apparatus includes an input module, a rules module, a sorting module, and an output module. The input module parses a document to identify a set of terms used in the document. The rules module determines a representation score by applying a set of relevancy rules to each term. The representation score indicates how well a term represents the content of the document. The sorting module sorts the set of terms based on the representation score for each term. The output module provides the sorted set of terms. The representation scores may be used to facilitate creating, editing, or revising the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Howard Glaser, Vivian Tsang