Patents by Inventor Joe N. Brown

Joe N. 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).

  • Publication number: 20110099394
    Abstract: In a data processing apparatus, a power mode is selected based on data regarding an operating status of a power utility powering the apparatus. The data is transmitted via power supply lines and includes information on timing/duration of present or anticipated brown-out and/or black-out conditions of the power utility. Power management functions can be performed, for example, using a BIOS of the apparatus or a power management application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Joe N. Brown
  • Publication number: 20090055498
    Abstract: Administration of time-sensitive email including receiving, by a recipient email module from a sender email module, identifying, by the recipient email module, the time to open the time-sensitive email message; notifying, by the recipient email module, a user of the time to open the time sensitive email message; receiving, by the recipient email module, from the user an alternative time to open; sending, by the recipient email module to the sender email module, the alternative time to open; agreeing, by the sender email module, to the alternative time to open; and in response to the agreement to the alternative time to open, receiving, by the recipient email module from the sender email module, a passcode to display the time-sensitive email message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Joe N. Brown
  • Publication number: 20090055499
    Abstract: Administration of time-sensitive email including creating, by a sender email module, an email message, the email message including a header and a message body; inserting, by the sender email module, in the header of the email message an identification of the email message as a time-sensitive email message, an identification of a time-server, and a time to open the email message; and sending, by the sender email module to a recipient email module, the email message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Joe N. Brown
  • Patent number: 6950832
    Abstract: When resources are reported missing within a system they are logged in a system error log. Specifically, resources that are missing because they have been reassigned from one logical partition (LPAR) within the system to another LPAR are tagged. When diagnostics are run to resolve missing resources, the resource reconfiguration database is queried for all resources that were assigned to LPARs and now are reported as missing and a missing resource List is created. The system error log is searched for resources that are tagged as missing because of reassignment. Any tagged resource and associated child resources of the tagged resource are removed from the missing resource List thereby updating the List. Normal missing resource resolution procedures are run against the updated missing resource List.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joe N. Brown, Faisal M. Awada, Philip B. Burkes
  • Patent number: 6831970
    Abstract: A method and system for remotely and automatically selecting and activating a profile of a telephone. In particular, a user defines telephone profile activation information and communicates this information to the telephone to activate a desired profile during a certain event. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes a calendar application whereby the user may input scheduling information and profile associations so that calendar information and profile associations are transmitted by the calendar application to the telephone and activated upon occurrence and for the duration of an event. In an alternate embodiment, the method of the present invention includes having the telephone update the calendar application. The preset invention is capable of working in different time zones by converting the calendar information into the current time zone of the telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faisal M. Awada, Joe N. Brown, Richard D. Crowley, Herman Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20030028523
    Abstract: When resources are reported missing within a system they are logged in a system error log. Specifically, resources that are missing because they have been reassigned from one logical partition (LPAR) within the system to another LPAR are tagged. When diagnostics are run to resolve missing resources, the resource reconfiguration database is queried for all resources that were assigned to LPARs and now are reported as missing and a missing resource List is created. The system error log is searched for resources that are tagged as missing because of reassignment. Any tagged resource and associated child resources of the tagged resource are removed from the missing resource List thereby updating the List. Normal missing resource resolution procedures are run against the updated missing resource List.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joe N. Brown, Faisal M. Awada, Philip B. Burkes