Patents by Inventor Jay A. Brown

Jay A. Brown 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: 9898932
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for monitoring an area utilizing an unmanned vehicle. These mechanisms identify an area to be monitored by an unmanned vehicle and identify an unmanned vehicle assigned to monitoring the identified area. The mechanisms further generate, for the unmanned vehicle, a travel path to be traversed by the unmanned vehicle using a function to randomize generation of the travel path. Moreover, the mechanisms program the unmanned vehicle to traverse the generated travel path and initiate operation of the unmanned vehicle to collect data about the area while traversing the generated travel path. In addition, the mechanisms monitor the area utilizing the unmanned vehicle based on the data collected by the unmanned vehicle while traversing the generated travel path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jay A. Brown, Thomas J. Watson
  • Publication number: 20160327959
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for monitoring an area utilizing an unmanned vehicle. These mechanisms identify an area to be monitored by an unmanned vehicle and identify an unmanned vehicle assigned to monitoring the identified area. The mechanisms further generate, for the unmanned vehicle, a travel path to be traversed by the unmanned vehicle using a function to randomize generation of the travel path. Moreover, the mechanisms program the unmanned vehicle to traverse the generated travel path and initiate operation of the unmanned vehicle to collect data about the area while traversing the generated travel path. In addition, the mechanisms monitor the area utilizing the unmanned vehicle based on the data collected by the unmanned vehicle while traversing the generated travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Jay A. Brown, Thomas J. Watson
  • Patent number: 9253737
    Abstract: Decreasing battery power consumption in a mobile communication device by reducing transmission power is provided. In response to a cellular communication tower detecting a state of the mobile communication device communicating wirelessly, the cellular communication tower directs the mobile communication device to reduce the transmission power of the mobile communication device to decrease the battery power consumption in the mobile communication device. The state of the mobile communication device receives information at a first rate and sends information at a second rate below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jay A. Brown, Thomas J. Watson
  • Publication number: 20150334665
    Abstract: Decreasing battery power consumption in a mobile communication device by reducing transmission power is provided. In response to a cellular communication tower detecting a state of the mobile communication device communicating wirelessly, the cellular communication tower directs the mobile communication device to reduce the transmission power of the mobile communication device to decrease the battery power consumption in the mobile communication device. The state of the mobile communication device receives information at a first rate and sends information at a second rate below a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jay A. Brown, Thomas J. Watson
  • Publication number: 20110239231
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for identifying an electronic document having at least two document versions to be migrated, copying document version contents and version metadata of each of the at least two document versions into a collection for transmission to a destination electronic repository, and sending the collection using a migration Application Programming Interface (API) call to the destination electronic repository with a single operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jay A. Brown, Thomas J. Watson
  • Patent number: 7966287
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for dynamically synchronizing multiple document management systems based on customizable events and actions. An edit module edits records in a custom configuration database in response to user input, each of the records comprising a timestamp and configuration data corresponding to an event. A loader module caches the records from the custom configuration database in a memory. A polling module compares a timestamp in the memory to a timestamp in the custom configuration database at a polling interval. An update module updates a record in the memory when the timestamp of the record in the memory is older than the timestamp of a corresponding record in the custom configuration database. An execution module performs a synchronization action on a destination document management system in response to an event in a source document management system based on corresponding configuration data in the custom configuration database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jay A. Brown
  • Publication number: 20090287746
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for dynamically synchronizing multiple document management systems based on customizable events and actions. An edit module edits records in a custom configuration database in response to user input, each of the records comprising a timestamp and configuration data corresponding to an event. A loader module caches the records from the custom configuration database in a memory. A polling module compares a timestamp in the memory to a timestamp in the custom configuration database at a polling interval. An update module updates a record in the memory when the timestamp of the record in the memory is older than the timestamp of a corresponding record in the custom configuration database. An execution module performs a synchronization action on a destination document management system in response to an event in a source document management system based on corresponding configuration data in the custom configuration database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jay A. Brown