Patents by Inventor John Edward Boyer

John Edward 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).

  • Patent number: 8386483
    Abstract: Increasing quality of content provided to a user is provided. Communities of practice a user is associated with are determined based on login data. A corresponding set of tags is retrieved for each of the communities of practice. All corresponding sets of tags are aggregated to define a role for the user. A personal set of tags associated with the user is retrieved. The personal set of tags is added to the aggregate of all corresponding sets of tags to create a new set of tags. A context of the user in the particular task is recorded. The new set of tags is filtered based on the context to create a sub-set of tags. A defined number of tag aware information sources are queried using the sub-set of tags. Content is received from the defined number of tag aware information sources based on the query. The content is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Edward Boyer, Peter Alan Coldicott, Edward Emile Kelley, Eoin Lane
  • Publication number: 20120284637
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for managing events scheduled by multiple users in a group, provides an event management platform (EMP) in communication with a client application on each user's computing device via a network. The EMP acquires characteristic information on each computing device and each user's third party calendar applications (TPCAs), and event information on the events. The EMP, in communication with the client application, generates and stores the events based on the event information. The EMP stores the events across a data store residing on each computing device external to the client application and/or the data stores of the TPCAs, using the acquired characteristic information and event information. The stored events are accessible to each user associated with the events for performing one or more actions that are tracked and automatically updated by the EMP. The EMP also notifies the availability of the users in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: John Edward Boyer, Cynthia Smith Boyer