Patents by Inventor James Scott Adreon

James Scott Adreon 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).

  • Managing messages related to workflows
    Patent number: 8250132
    Abstract: A message and a tag are sent to a set of recipients, wherein the tag contains state information for the message. In response to receiving an event from a recipient within the set of recipients, the reply message tag is processed with a policy to identify an action. The action identified by processing the event with the policy is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Scott Adreon, Saha Avijit
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGES RELATED TO WORKFLOWS
    Publication number: 20090013047
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing messages. A message and a tag are sent to a set of recipients, wherein the tag contains state information for the message. In response to receiving an event from a recipient within the set of recipients, the reply message tag is processed with a policy to identify an action. The action identified by processing the event with the policy is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: James Scott Adreon, Saha Avijit