Patents by Inventor Joseph Bohn

Joseph Bohn 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: 20060031849
    Abstract: A task-like user interface is provided for Web-based applications. Preferred embodiments enable users to initiate multiple instances of tasks within a single Web application, where independent state information is retained for each instance. Each user-initiated task also has a prescribed life cycle with a definite start and end. Resources allocated to perform various activities can therefore be released when the activity ends. Optionally, contextual information can be passed to a task upon invocation. Support for persisting a currently-viewable work unit as a user-selectable favorite may optionally be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Barta, Velda Bartek, Joseph Bohn, Kathryn Britton, Brock Brogan, Samar Choudhary, Stefan Koch, Vijay Pandiarajan, Douglas Petty, Joseph Saunders, Carl Swanson, Robert Uthe
  • Publication number: 20050198201
    Abstract: Content aggregation is used to build administration consoles. Preferred embodiments enable providing a solution-based approach to information technology (“IT”) administration, whereby content can be flexibly arranged to provide a content view that is adapted for the IT solution deployed in a particular IT environment. In preferred embodiments, portal technology is used for the aggregation framework, and portlets are used for creating content. Alternatively, other approaches such as struts and tiles may be used. Preferred embodiments deploy an administration console as a Web-accessible application, and this console consolidates the administration interfaces for an arbitrary set of management operations, including administration of an arbitrary collection of hardware and/or software resources. Roles/permissions may be used when rendering content for the console, thereby customizing a view to individual end users (or user groups).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Bohn, Kathryn Britton, Samar Choudhary, Donald Ferguson, Carol Jones, Richard King, Jason McGee, Christopher Mitchell, Vijay Pandiarajan, Douglas Petty, Elizabeth Schreiber, Timothy Shortley, Shikha Srivastava, John Sweitzer, Robert Uthe
  • Publication number: 20050198196
    Abstract: Content from multiple remote/legacy consoles is aggregated within a central console to provide a single point-of-access for managing remote resources. Preferred embodiments deploy the central console as a network-accessible application, and this console application communicates with remotely-located console applications (and/or other locally-executing functions) that carry out tasks selected from the central console by an administrator and then return content generated by those tasks for rendering in the central console. The run-time environment used at the central console is not required to match the run-time environment of the remote/legacy consoles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Bohn, Kathryn Britton, Samar Choudhary, Jason McGee, Christopher Mitchell, Elizabeth Schreiber