Patents by Inventor John R. Hind

John R. Hind 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: 10904170
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include forwarding a copy of the message text to a backend business component as a justification to the applied action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SINOEAST CONCEPT LIMITED
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 10373121
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for integrating a calendaring system with a mashup page. A mashup server accesses the calendar data inputted by a user to create or edit an entry in a calendar application. The mashup server provides the user access to widgets to be included on a mashup page, where the widgets use the accessed calendar information so that the widgets provide information to the recipients of the calendared event. In this manner, the widgets provide information that normally would be accessible by the participants via links to a myriad of disjoint applications thereby negating the fractured experience of the participants. Upon finalizing the mashup page, the mashup page is saved as a Uniform Resource Location (URL) in the created/edited calendar entry. The mashup page is later transmitted by the mashup server to the recipients of the calendar entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng-Wei Chen, John R. Hind, Joseph D. Johnson, Yongcheng Li
  • Patent number: 10229389
    Abstract: A system and method to manage a community development asset. The system includes an asset polling agent, a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary, and an asset discovery service. The asset polling agent identifies a descriptive term associated with an asset under development. The nomenclature taxonomy dictionary stores a list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development. The asset discovery service identifies a reusable asset of a plurality of reusable assets for use with the asset under development based on at least one term, from a combination of the descriptive term and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term, extracted from social network data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Helena S. Chapman, John R. Hind
  • Publication number: 20190044897
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include forwarding a copy of the message text to a backend business component as a justification to the applied action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 10097483
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include forwarding a copy of the message text to a backend business component as a justification to the applied action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 10078538
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to scripting integration in a Web application environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for Web application integration with dialog based scripts. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for integrating a Web application with dialog-based script input can be provided. The method can include receiving a script input request from an executing script; formatting the script input request from the executing script into a Web form for a Web page and providing the Web page to a content browser; receiving form input in the Web form in the Web page from the content browser and transforming the form input into script input for the executing script; and, providing the script input to the executing script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Belinda Y Chang, John R. Hind, Robert E. Moore, Brad B. Topol, Jie Xing
  • Patent number: 9858254
    Abstract: A web service packages an XForm type form containing interactive fields used by the web service, in a RSS/ATOM feed item. The web service sends the RSS/ATOM feed item to a computerized client, wherein the computerized client is a subscriber to the web service's RSS/ATOM feed and the computerized client is in network communication with a server hosting the web service. The computerized client displays the form for use by a user. Responsive to the user of the computerized client manipulating interactive fields in the form, the computerized client packages the manipulated form in a return RSS/ATOM feed item. The computerized client sends the return RSS/ATOM feed item to the server hosting the web service, wherein the server is a subscriber to the computerized client's return RSS/ATOM feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, John R. Hind
  • Patent number: 9836751
    Abstract: A system and method for reporting a user's behavior and patterns when engaged in use of an electronic consumable. In a preferred embodiment, an electronic consumable such as an electronic book or library includes detectors for collecting biological information from a user. This information is analyzed to identify the user's interests in and reactions to the electronic consumable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Steven Michael Miller, Patrick P. Reynolds, Abdolreza Salahshour
  • Patent number: 9819761
    Abstract: A determination is made as to whether a message received at a first client application cache of a group of client application caches matches one of a set of stored rules. Each rule triggers an event in another one of the group of client application caches in response to receipt of a matching message from a client application. Another message directed to another specified client application cache is generated for each rule determined to match the received message at a first client application cache. The generated message directs the other specified client application cache to collect and cache specified information from a server associated with the other specified client application cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Bhavuk Srivastava
  • Patent number: 9633199
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a declaration of security requirements to determine whether to permit application operations. A declaration of security requirements indicates actions the application designates to perform with respect to resources in a computer system, wherein a plurality of the indicated actions are indicated for at least two operation modes of the application. A detection is made of whether the application is requesting to perform a requested action with respect to a requested resource in the computer system. A determination is made of a current operation mode of the application comprising one of the at least two operation modes in response to detecting that the application is requesting the requested action. A determination is made as to whether the declaration of security requirements indicates the requested action with the current operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Calcaterra, John R. Hind
  • Patent number: 9619780
    Abstract: A method for improving information exchange in a social network environment. Actions (e.g., copying) being performed on an electronic object (e.g., e-mail) are detected. Furthermore, the entry of the electronic object in a social networking website is detected thereby identifying an association between this electronic object and this social networking website. Rule patterns are identified based on these detected actions and these associations. Indications of these associations are stored in terms of concept nodes in a hierarchical tree using the identified rule patterns. Social networking feeds of interest are then searched using the hierarchical tree as well as a current electronic object of a user (e.g., status message on a social networking feed, e-mail). The user would then be provided an opportunity to repost an information nugget from the current electronic object in one or more of these social networking feeds of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng-Wei Chen, John R. Hind, Joseph D. Johnson, Yongcheng Li, Josef Scherpa
  • Patent number: 9613339
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for improving information exchange in a social network environment. Actions (e.g., copying) being performed on an electronic object (e.g., e-mail) are detected. Furthermore, the entry of the electronic object in a social networking website is detected thereby identifying an association between this electronic object and this social networking website. Rule patterns are identified based on these detected actions and these associations. Indications of these associations are stored in terms of concept nodes in a hierarchical tree using the identified rule patterns. Social networking feeds of interest are then searched using the hierarchical tree as well as a current electronic object of a user (e.g., status message on a social networking feed, e-mail). The user would then be provided an opportunity to repost an information nugget from the current electronic object in one or more of these social networking feeds of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng-Wei Chen, John R. Hind, Joseph D. Johnson, Yongcheng Li, Josef Scherpa
  • Publication number: 20170054660
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include forwarding a copy of the message text to a backend business component as a justification to the applied action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 9571484
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to configuring a computing appliance and provide a method, system and computer program product for device certificate based virtual appliance configuration. In one embodiment of the invention, a virtual appliance secure configuration method can be provided. The method can include mounting non-volatile storage to the virtual appliance, retrieving a device certificate from the mounted storage and extracting a signature from the device certificate, activating the virtual appliance in a network domain and acquiring an adapter address and unique identifier for the virtual appliance, and authenticating the signature with the adapter address and unique identifier to ensure a unique active instance of the virtual appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald P. Doyle, John R. Hind, Marcia L. Stockton
  • Patent number: 9497041
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include forwarding a copy of the message text to a backend business component as a justification to the applied action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 9460420
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include identifying a pronoun in the message text referencing the business object and visually distinguishing the identified pronoun in the message text to draw a correlation between the business object and the pronoun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Publication number: 20160173638
    Abstract: A determination is made as to whether a message received at a first client application cache of a group of client application caches matches one of a set of stored rules. Each rule triggers an event in another one of the group of client application caches in response to receipt of a matching message from a client application. Another message directed to another specified client application cache is generated for each rule determined to match the received message at a first client application cache. The generated message directs the other specified client application cache to collect and cache specified information from a server associated with the other specified client application cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Bhavuk Srivastava
  • Patent number: 9344389
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a chat session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the instant messenger. The method further can include generating a message transcript for the messaging session with a split view of the message text and the business object and applied action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 9300750
    Abstract: Information is collected regarding an event in a computer system that includes a group of client application caches that each temporarily store information associated with one of a group of client applications. A set of rules is stored at one or more of the group of client application caches. Each rule triggers the event in another one of the group of client application caches in response to receipt of a message from a client application associated with the respective client application cache. Another message directed to another specified client application cache is generated for each rule that matches a first received message at a first client application cache. The generated message directs the other specified client application cache to collect and cache specified information from a server associated with the other specified client application cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Bhavuk Srivastava
  • Patent number: 9299114
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the instant messenger. The method further can include indexing the messaging session with keywords in the message text and tags for the business object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda