Patents by Inventor IAN ABBOTT DONNELLY

IAN ABBOTT DONNELLY 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: 8554496
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring utilization and waste of a natural resource, such as water. Data is received indicating natural resource consumption by a facility. An indication of at least one period of natural resource usage by the facility is received. Natural resource usage corresponding to utilization of the natural resource for a useful purpose. Quantities of the natural resource consumed by the facility during the at least one period of water usage is recorded as a utilized quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Abbott Donnelly, Youssef Drissi, Tyrone W. Grandison, Colin G. Harrison, Kaan K. Katircioglu, Jurij R. Paraszczak
  • Publication number: 20130116994
    Abstract: Providing water management services includes generating a water accounting model. The model is generated by selecting data, via a user interface implemented by a computer processor, from options including water quality, water quantity, and water usage. The model is further generated by defining, via the user interface, parameters of the data for a geographic region, and defining, via the user interface, actions to be taken. Providing the water management services further includes mapping communications addresses of data sources of data selected via the user interface to the water accounting model, receiving input values for the data via the communications addresses from the data sources, executing the water accounting model, and identifying and implementing an action responsive to results of executing the mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Abbott Donnelly, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell, Ralph P. Williams
  • Publication number: 20120022803
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring utilization and waste of a natural resource, such as water. Data is received indicating natural resource consumption by a facility. An indication of at least one period of natural resource usage by the facility is received. Natural resource usage corresponding to utilization of the natural resource for a useful purpose. Quantities of the natural resource consumed by the facility during the at least one period of water usage is recorded as a utilized quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: IAN ABBOTT DONNELLY, Youssef Drissi, Tyrone W. Grandison, Colin G. Harrison, Kaan K. Katircioglu, Jurij R. Paraszczak