Patents by Inventor Jerome Boyer

Jerome Boyer 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).

  • Contextual evaluation of process model for generation and extraction of project management artifacts
    Patent number: 10885440
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes a processor extracting data and metadata from a process model, where the process is comprised of activities and the metadata is associated with each activity. The processor generates at least one user story for at least one activity, where the at least one user story includes an estimate attribute reflecting a predicted timeframe for completion of at least a portion of the at least one activity. The processor updates the model to reflect the at least one user story and displays the updated model as a project plan in a project management interface on a computing resource. The processor assigns a resource to the at least one user story and dynamically updates the estimate attribute of the at least one user story to reflect a new predicted timeframe, calculates impacts to the process and displays the impacts and the new predicted timeframe in the project management interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Boyer, Robert H. Grant, Vyacheslav A. Zheltonogov
  • CONTEXTUAL EVALUATION OF PROCESS MODEL FOR GENERATION AND EXTRACTION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARTIFACTS
    Publication number: 20170364824
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes a processor extracting data and metadata from a process model, where the process is comprised of activities and the metadata is associated with each activity. The processor generates at least one user story for at least one activity, where the at least one user story includes an estimate attribute reflecting a predicted timeframe for completion of at least a portion of the at least one activity. The processor updates the model to reflect the at least one user story and displays the updated model as a project plan in a project management interface on a computing resource. The processor assigns a resource to the at least one user story and dynamically updates the estimate attribute of the at least one user story to reflect a new predicted timeframe, calculates impacts to the process and displays the impacts and the new predicted timeframe in the project management interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Jerome Boyer, Robert H. Grant, Vyacheslav A. Zheltonogov