Patents by Inventor Joseph A. Lawrance

Joseph A. Lawrance 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).

  • Method and system of determining a prioritized list of users related to a given goal
    Patent number: 8825561
    Abstract: A method and system of determining a prioritized list of one or more users related to a given goal obtaining a set of places, determine one or more future places an expert associated with a given goal is predicted to visit to accomplish the given goal, obtain a history of one or more places users have visited, determine one or more historical places from the history of one or more places that match the future places, and identify one or more users associated with the determined one or more historical places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Margaret M. Burnett, Joseph A. Lawrance, Peter K. Malkin, John T. Richards, Clay E. Williams
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DETERMINING A PRIORITIZED LIST OF USERS RELATED TO A GIVEN GOAL
    Publication number: 20110035343
    Abstract: A method and system of determining a prioritized list of one or more users related to a given goal obtaining a set of places, determine one or more future places an expert associated with a given goal is predicted to visit to accomplish the given goal, obtain a history of one or more places users have visited, determine one or more historical places from the history of one or more places that match the future places, and identify one or more users associated with the determined one or more historical places.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Margaret M. Burnett, Joseph A. Lawrance, Peter K. Malkin, John T. Richards, Clay E. Williams