Patents by Inventor Howard J. Walter, Jr.

Howard J. Walter, Jr. 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).

  • Intellectual property management method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7630915
    Abstract: An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to each of the technical attributes and based on available resource capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the intellectual property activity by determining the difference between the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony Bracchitta, Patricia McGuiness Marmillion, Bernadette Ann Pierson, Henry Charles Rickers, Howard J. Walter, Jr.
  • Intellectual property management method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7089192
    Abstract: An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to each of the technical attributes and based on available resource capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the intellectual property activity by determining the difference between the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony Bracchitta, Patricia McGuinness Marmillion, Bernadette Ann Pierson, Henry Charles Rickers, Howard J. Walter, Jr.