Patents by Inventor Hussam Eid

Hussam Eid 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).

  • Content management system
    Patent number: 8909611
    Abstract: A method of operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, the method including receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one of the content servers, accessing user information relating to one or more users at one or more locations, determining, from the user information, whether the received data is relevant to each user, and transmitting the data from the central server to one or more content servers according to whether the data is relevant for users at the respective locations of the content servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Dinger, Hussam Eid, Jonathan Thomas Zempel
  • Temporally associating a user with a location
    Patent number: 8898231
    Abstract: A system for temporally associating a user with a location. The system includes a receiving component for receiving identity data from an electronic sensor, the identity data being indicative of a user's presence being detected at a location at a given time. The receiving component further receives scheduling information about the availability of the location for the given time, and an analysis component determines from the scheduling information and the user's detected presence whether the location is available for use by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Crawford, Hussam Eid, Fintan Fairmichael, Bill Looby, Kevin Tadgh O'Riordan, Michael Roche, Stephen Joseph Tapley
  • APPARATUS FOR TEMPORALLY ASSOCIATING A USER WITH A LOCATION
    Publication number: 20070299966
    Abstract: A system for temporally associating a user with a location. The system includes a receiving component for receiving identity data from an electronic sensor, the identity data being indicative of a user's presence being detected at a location at a given time. The receiving component further receives scheduling information about the availability of the location for the given time, and an analysis component determines from the scheduling information and the user's detected presence whether the location is available for use by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Crawford, Hussam Eid, Fintan Fairmichael, Bill Looby, Kevin Tadgh O'Riordan, Michael Roche, Stephen Joseph Tapley
  • CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20070067306
    Abstract: A method of operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, the method including receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one of the content servers, accessing user information relating to one or more users at one or more locations, determining, from the user information, whether the received data is relevant to each user, and transmitting the data from the central server to one or more content servers according to whether the data is relevant for users at the respective locations of the content servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Dinger, Hussam Eid, Jonathan Zempel