Patents by Inventor Joseph A. Russo

Joseph A. Russo 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: 8536074
    Abstract: Disclosed are cleaning sheets having substantial macroscopic three-dimensionality. Optionally, the macroscopically three-dimensional cleaning sheets can comprise a contractable material (e.g., a scrim material), which when heated and then cooled contracts so as to provide a macroscopic, three-dimensional structure. Macroscopic three-dimensionality is described in terms of “average peak-to-peak distance” and “surface topography index”, as well in terms of “average height differential”. Also disclosed are cleaning implements comprising a handle and the described cleaning sheets. Processes for the sheets, benefits of the processes, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Saeed Fereshtehkhou, Paul Joseph Russo, Wilbur Cecil Strickland, Jr., Nicola John Policicchio
  • Patent number: 8527589
    Abstract: A method and system for managing enrollment in a collaborative computing environment community are provided. One or more of a group of users wishing to enroll in the collaborative computing community are identified and an enrollment model is implemented. It is then determined if any of the group of users are selected to be enrolled based upon the selected enrollment model. The current community membership is then updated as a result of determining whether to enroll any of the group of users based upon the selected enrollment model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Russo, Robert Yates
  • Patent number: 8090775
    Abstract: A system for establishing and maintaining a permission delegation policy for roles within a collaborative computing environment provides a list of potential delegatee end user persons to a delegator end user person. A list of delegatable permissions is provided to the delegator end user person in which the list of delegatable permissions correspond to permissions held by the delegator end user person. A delegation policy is received from the delegator end user person. The delegation policy includes one or more delegated permissions from the list of delegatable permissions and identification of a delegatee end user person from the list of potential delegatee end users persons designated to receive the delegated permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Russo, Robert Yates
  • Publication number: 20110300341
    Abstract: Disclosed are cleaning sheets having substantial macroscopic three-dimensionality. Optionally, the macroscopically three-dimensional cleaning sheets can comprise a contractable material (e.g., a scrim material), which when heated and then cooled contracts so as to provide a macroscopic, three-dimensional structure. Macroscopic three-dimensionality is described in terms of “average peak-to-peak distance” and “surface topography index”, as well in terms of “average height differential”. Also disclosed are cleaning implements comprising a handle and the described cleaning sheets. Processes for the sheets, benefits of the processes, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Saeed FERESHTEHKHOU, Paul Joseph Russo, Wilbur Cecil Strickland, JR., Nicola John Policicchio
  • Patent number: 7930187
    Abstract: A method and system for managing membership in a collaborative computing environment community are provided. Identification of a selected a group of end user persons to invite to join the collaborative computing community is received. The selected group is evaluated to identify one or more invitees there from. The one or more identified invitees are invited to join the community. An indication from one or more invitees that the invitee wishes to join the community is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel A. Estrada, Joseph A. Russo, Thomas M. Spine
  • Patent number: 7873730
    Abstract: A method and system for collaborative computing environment access restriction and orphan data management is provided in the form of establishment and implementation of a data handling policy in which the data handling policy for one of a person and a role is stored on a computer storage medium. The data handing policy is implemented in the collaborative computing environment by providing access to data in accordance with the established data handling policy. Access to the data handling policy is provided to a person affected by the data handling policy in which the access to the data handling policy includes allowing the affected person to view the data handling policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph A. Russo
  • Patent number: 7849496
    Abstract: A method of managing online communities within an online community management system can include declaratively specifying a taxonomy of online community types, declaratively specifying a plurality of roles for members of online communities, and declaratively specifying a security policy that associates permissions with roles and online community types. A plurality of online community profiles can be maintained. Each online community profile can represent an online community, specify an online community type from the taxonomy, and specify a list of members of that online community as well as an associated role for each member. Access can be provided to a selected online community according to the online community type of the selected online community, a role within the selected online community that is associated with a user attempting to access the selected online community, and the security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael I. Ahern, Jacqueline M. Ferguson, Alexander Kordun, Joseph A. Russo, Ajamu Wesley
  • Patent number: 7774406
    Abstract: A method and system for the establishment and maintenance of a collaborative computing community. The community includes one or more community members having membership data corresponding to their membership stored in a database and one or more collaborative components. A membership adapter interface is used to facilitate an exchange of information between the database and the collaborative components. A community template stored in which the community template indicates which collaborative components are accessible by the one or more community members. Such indication can be provided by data in a community role table of roles within the community, a collaborative component table identifying one or more collaborative components and API locations corresponding to the one or more collaborative components and a role map defining a mapping between the community roles in the community role table, named permission sets and the one or more identified collaborative components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Russo, Sami M. Shalabi
  • Patent number: 7444693
    Abstract: The present invention is an inflatable lift device. The lift device includes a flat blanket with a plurality of inflatable bladders, an air supply coupled to each of the inflatable bladders, and a controller coupled to the air supply for controlling the air supply to sequentially inflate the plurality of inflatable bladders thereby raising a patient from a supine or prone position to a seated position. The plurality of inflatable bladders may include inflatable side rails, inflatable armrests, an inflatable back support and an inflatable lift as well as optional inflatable tilt bladders to raise the patient from a seated position to a standing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Endetek, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Russo, Richard J. Mascara, James O. Poepperling
  • Publication number: 20080250022
    Abstract: A method and system for establishing and maintaining a permission delegation policy for roles within a collaborative computing environment. The method and system provide a list of potential delegatee end user persons to a delegator end user person. A list of delegatable permissions is provided to the delegator end user person in which the list of delegatable permissions correspond to permissions held by the delegator end user person. A delegation policy is received from the delegator end user person. The delegation policy includes one or more delegated permissions from the list of delgatable permissions and identification of a delegatee end user person from the list of potential delegatee end users persons designated to receive the delegated permissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Joseph A. Russo, Robert Yates
  • Patent number: 7421659
    Abstract: Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has, for example. Room type controls the appearance and content of rooms. A form manages the display of data notes. A form can contain fields for containing data and employ scripts to process and compute data. A page is the basic vehicle for content. Content is created using an or importing content from an external source. A member is also a data note, and each place contains its own member directory. A place is created and managed from a client browser in on-line mode and in offline mode with respect to a replicated copy of the space. Room security is independently managed, and security and aesthetics characteristics of subrooms selectively inherited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julio Estrada, Miguel A. Estrada, Joseph A. Russo, Maurice B. Shore
  • Patent number: 7415781
    Abstract: A fabric article treating apparatus for dispensing a benefit composition through a nozzle that directs the benefit composition as droplets or particles into the chamber of the fabric article drying appliance. The droplets or particles provide benefits to the fabric articles within the drying appliance. The treating apparatus includes one or more safety features, and/or it includes beneficial control concepts that enhance the effects of the benefit composition being dispensed through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bradford Scott Barron, Mary Jane Combs, Dean Larry DuVal, Keith David Fanta, Paul Amaat Raymond Gerard France, Christian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Laura Lynn Heilman, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Paul Joseph Russo, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Pedro Vincent Vandecappelle
  • Patent number: 7415498
    Abstract: A method and system for establishing and maintaining a permission delegation policy for roles within a collaborative computing environment provide a list of potential delegatee end user persons to a delegator end user person. A list of delegatable permissions is provided to the delegator end user person in which the list of delegatable permissions correspond to permissions held by the delegator end user person. A delegation policy is received from the delegator end user person. The delegation policy includes one or more delegated permissions from the list of delegatable permissions and identification of a delegatee end user person from the list of potential delegatee end users persons designated to receive the delegated permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Russo, Robert Yates
  • Publication number: 20080162482
    Abstract: A method of managing online communities within an online community management system can include declaratively specifying a taxonomy of online community types, declaratively specifying a plurality of roles for members of online communities, and declaratively specifying a security policy that associates permissions with roles and online community types. A plurality of online community profiles can be maintained. Each online community profile can represent an online community, specify an online community type from the taxonomy, and specify a list of members of that online community as well as an associated role for each member. Access can be provided to a selected online community according to the online community type of the selected online community, a role within the selected online community that is associated with a user attempting to access the selected online community, and the security policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael I. Ahern, Jacqueline M. Ferguson, Alexander Kordun, Joseph A. Russo, Ajamu Wesley
  • Publication number: 20080148146
    Abstract: Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has, for example. Room type controls the appearance and content of rooms. A form manages the display of data notes. A form can contain fields for containing data and employ scripts to process and compute data. A page is the basic vehicle for content. Content is created using an or importing content from an external source. A member is also a data note, and each place contains its own member directory. A place is created and managed from a client browser in on-line mode and in offline mode with respect to a replicated copy of the space. Room security is independently managed, and security and aesthetics characteristics of subrooms selectively inherited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Julio Estrada, Miguel Estrada, Joseph A. Russo, Maurice B. Shore
  • Publication number: 20070095217
    Abstract: A wringing device for expelling materials from a flexible container. In at least one embodiment, the wringing device may be used to expel fluids from a flexible container contained within an intermediate bulk container (IBC). The wringing device may be formed from a support frame and a carriage movably coupled to the support frame for supporting components of the wringing device. The wringing device may include a nip shaft coupled to the carriage and a movable nip shaft movably coupled to the carriage proximate to the nip shaft. The movable nip shaft may be biased toward the nip shaft with a biasing device. The wringing device may include one or more drive devices for driving a take-up shaft, a wringing device transport system, or the carriage, or any combination thereof. The wringing device may also include a transport vehicle for transporting the wringing device between different intermediate bulk containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: Chep USA
    Inventors: Joseph Russo, Vishnu Naidu
  • Patent number: 7194480
    Abstract: Methods on objects in a distributed environment are accessed and invoked on a system including a plurality of server objects instantiated in the environment in the same address domain, which share a same user directory and authentication system, are on a same user network, and are administered by a single administration team. A service catalog is provided for cataloging a plurality of objects as nodes on a tree, objects including the plurality of servers objects within the distributed environment. A document file is provided for encapsulating cataloged relationships of server objects in the distributed environment and for storing object attributes generated by traversing the tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sami M. Shalabi, Antonio Estrada, Mustansir Banatwala, Joseph A. Russo
  • Publication number: 20070053617
    Abstract: A valve for use with a liner bag for a container, and a liner bag including a valve, the valve including a valve member located in a valve seat and having a valve opening for egress of liquids from the liner bag. An operating lever is positioned outside the liner bag. A protective cage extends in front of the valve opening, the cage being positioned inside the liner bag to prevent the wall of the liner bag from collapsing into the valve opening during emptying of liquids from the liner bag. A flange may extend around the valve seat to retain the valve in the wall of the liner bag. This arrangement prevents the liner bag wall from clogging the valve during discharge of the bag's contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Chep U.S.A.
    Inventors: Vishnu Naidu, Joseph Russo
  • Patent number: 7181462
    Abstract: Data on place objects in a distributed environment are generated in a system including a plurality of server objects instantiated in the environment in the same address domain, which share a same user directory and authentication system, are on a same user network, and are administered by a single administration team. A service catalog is provided for cataloging a plurality of place objects as nodes on a tree, place objects including the plurality of servers objects within the distributed environment. A document file is provided for encapsulating cataloged relationships of server objects in the distributed environment and for storing object attributes generated by traversing the tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sami M. Shalabi, Mustansir Banatwala, Joseph A. Russo, Miguel A. Estrada
  • Publication number: 20070028380
    Abstract: The present invention is an inflatable lift device. The lift device includes a flat blanket with a plurality of inflatable bladders, an air supply coupled to each of the inflatable bladders, and a controller coupled to the air supply for controlling the air supply to sequentially inflate the plurality of inflatable bladders thereby raising a patient from a supine or prone position to a seated position. The plurality of inflatable bladders may include inflatable side rails, inflatable armrests, an inflatable back support and an inflatable lift as well as optional inflatable tilt bladders to raise the patient from a seated position to a standing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Endetek, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Russo, Richard Mascara, James Poepperling