Patents by Inventor Jodi Coppinger

Jodi Coppinger 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).

  • Publication number: 20060020889
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to recurring events in a C&S system and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for editing an event in a C&S system. In one embodiment, a method for editing an event in a C&S system can include specifying a recurrence range before permitting editing of the event. The method further can include disposing an in-line disambiguating message in a calendar dialog for the C&S system indicating whether an event instance or whether all instances of the event are to be edited in the calendar dialog. The method yet further can include limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&S system. Specifically, limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&S system can include permitting only an editing of a single instance for the event in response to an attendee exception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jodi Coppinger, David Delay, Brian Levine, Frank Pavelski
  • Publication number: 20050198144
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e.g., “From,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either transmitted from or received at a predetermined network node (e.g., a client or server). Electronic mail addresses stored in the virtual address book may be made available to “auto-complete” capabilities utilized during the addressing of electronic mail messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Carl Kraenzel, Paul Moody, Daniel Gruen, Christof Lucking, Jodi Coppinger
  • Publication number: 20050198256
    Abstract: A system and method is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a search module. The delete module enables a user to delete a selected message, a set of related messages, or the whole set except for the selected message. The reply module enables a user to send a reply message to all addresses associated and involved with an entire set of related messages. The profile module enables a dynamic interest profile to contain all relevant information from an outgoing message and a set of messages related to the outgoing message. The search module enables search results to include documents which match the user's query as well as documents related to the documents which match the user's query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Paul Moody, Joann Ruvolo, Carl Kraenzel, Jodi Coppinger
  • Publication number: 20050144573
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Paul Moody, Cynthia Ice, Douglas Conmy, Mary Raven, Jodi Coppinger, Francis Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • Publication number: 20050144569
    Abstract: A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Eric Wilcox, Jodi Coppinger, Bernard Kerr, Paul Moody
  • Publication number: 20050144571
    Abstract: A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Darrell Loverin, Jodi Coppinger, Douglas Conmy, Eric Wilcox, Paul Moody
  • Publication number: 20050144572
    Abstract: A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Wattenberg, Jodi Coppinger, Bernard Kerr, Darrell Loverin, Paul Moody
  • Publication number: 20050144570
    Abstract: A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Darrell Loverin, Jodi Coppinger, Mary Raven, Paul Moody