Patents by Inventor James C. GROUND

James C. GROUND 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: 10977247
    Abstract: A cognitive meeting assistant facility is provided for assisting a moderator in an online meeting. The cognitive meeting assistant facility automatically categorizes chat questions of participants of the online meeting based on content into multiple categories of chat questions. One or more categories of chat questions of the multiple categories of chat questions include multiple questions of different participants of the online meeting. Further, the cognitive meeting assistant facility deploys the multiple categories of chat questions for display to the participants of the online meeting. The deploying includes, for each category of the at least one category of chat questions, providing a category-applicable answer for display to the participants of the online meeting in association with that category of chat questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James C. Ground, Jr., David F. Hans, Kirsten B. McDonald, Ronald E. Van Buskirk, II
  • Patent number: 10491621
    Abstract: Website security tracking is provided which includes, for instance, collecting, by a processor, event-specific information related to a suspicious event at a website. The collecting includes executing at least one security tracking module integrated into website code of the website to store the event-specific information. The website is one website of multiple websites of a network. The tracking method also includes providing by the website an indication of the suspicious event and the collected event-specific information to an analytics system external to the website. The analytics system is to receive indications of any suspicious events from the multiple websites and determine, based at least in in part on collected event-specific information related to the suspicious events, a confidence level of whether the suspicious event is part of a common security attack on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James C. Ground, David F. Hans, Ronald E. Van Buskirk
  • Patent number: 10320721
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for determining and providing an availability status of an individual in a messaging application are provided. Aspects include obtaining historical usage data for the individual for the messaging application, obtaining location data, activity data and calendar data for the individual, and calculating a current availability status for the individual based on the historical usage data, the location data, the activity data and the calendar data. Aspects also include calculating a predicted future availability status for the individual based on the historical usage data, the location data, the activity data and the calendar data and providing the current availability status and the predicted future availability status to other users of the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James C. Ground, Jr., Rolando Perez, Christopher A. Robbins
  • Publication number: 20180144235
    Abstract: A cognitive meeting assistant facility is provided for assisting a moderator in an online meeting. The cognitive meeting assistant facility automatically categorizes chat questions of participants of the online meeting based on content into multiple categories of chat questions. One or more categories of chat questions of the multiple categories of chat questions include multiple questions of different participants of the online meeting. Further, the cognitive meeting assistant facility deploys the multiple categories of chat questions for display to the participants of the online meeting. The deploying includes, for each category of the at least one category of chat questions, providing a category-applicable answer for display to the participants of the online meeting in association with that category of chat questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: James C. GROUND, Jr., David F. HANS, Kirsten B. McDONALD, Ronald E. VAN BUSKIRK, II
  • Publication number: 20180054456
    Abstract: Website security tracking is provided which includes, for instance, collecting, by a processor, event-specific information related to a suspicious event at a website. The collecting includes executing at least one security tracking module integrated into website code of the website to store the event-specific information. The website is one website of multiple websites of a network. The tracking method also includes providing by the website an indication of the suspicious event and the collected event-specific information to an analytics system external to the website. The analytics system is to receive indications of any suspicious events from the multiple websites and determine, based at least in in part on collected event-specific information related to the suspicious events, a confidence level of whether the suspicious event is part of a common security attack on the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: James C. GROUND, David F. HANS, Ronald E. VAN BUSKIRK