Patents by Inventor Joshua Fox

Joshua Fox 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: 9529528
    Abstract: A method enables a user to fill an input field on a single display. An input field is generated on a user interface, wherein the input field has a plurality of character entry subfields and at least one constraint for at least one of said plurality of character entry subfields. A set of characters selected for input from said input field according to said at least one constraint of at least one of said plurality of character entry subfields is received, and a virtual keyboard on a single display is generated and presented, wherein only said set of characters are presented on said virtual keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon
  • Patent number: 9529529
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method generates a character input from an interface. A plurality of consecutive character rows are presented, simultaneously on a single display, to a user, wherein each one of said plurality of character rows comprises a set of characters. One or more processors receive a selection by a user of a single character in each one of said plurality of character rows to generate a set of user selected characters. The set of user selected characters are then converted into a single complete input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon
  • Patent number: 9519794
    Abstract: Redacting material in a user interface is provided. A monitoring agent waits for a change in input or output of user content. A change comparator identifies the change for sensitive material. A type comparator identifies the type of sensitive material. A redaction engine redacts the change according to the identified type of sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon, Peter Hagelund
  • Patent number: 9360345
    Abstract: A system having a sensor using one or more magnetic field detectors to determine its position on a path of travel relative to one or more magnets situated on the path. The magnets may be electromagnets arranged in regions along the path with a region between two electromagnets. One or more electromagnets may be selectively activated so as to define a region where the sensor is present. An indication from the system may provide a position of the sensor within a region and identify the region where the sensor is situated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Fox
  • Publication number: 20160085755
    Abstract: Text including at least a first term can be presented on a display. An enterprise glossary is queried to identify other terms that match the first term. Data assets to which each of the other terms are linked and which include data values for the other terms can be identified. A first score indicating a level of relevance of the respective data asset to an enterprise is assigned to each of the data assets. A frequency distribution of the data values in the data assets is determined. Based at least on the first scores indicating the level of relevance of the respective data assets to the enterprise and the frequency distribution of the data values in the data assets, second scores are assigned to each of the data values. A plurality the data values which are assigned highest of the second scores are presented on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Fankhauser, Joshua Fox, Benjamin Halberstadt, Roger K. Hecker
  • Publication number: 20160085756
    Abstract: Text including at least a first term can be presented on a display. An enterprise glossary is queried to identify other terms that match the first term. Data assets to which each of the other terms are linked and which include data values for the other terms can be identified. A first score indicating a level of relevance of the respective data asset to an enterprise is assigned to each of the data assets. A frequency distribution of the data values in the data assets is determined. Based at least on the first scores indicating the level of relevance of the respective data assets to the enterprise and the frequency distribution of the data values in the data assets, second scores are assigned to each of the data values. A plurality the data values which are assigned highest of the second scores are presented on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Fankhauser, Joshua Fox, Benjamin Halberstadt, Roger K. Hecker
  • Publication number: 20160028732
    Abstract: A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Eitan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9224007
    Abstract: A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Eitan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9195853
    Abstract: Document redaction includes identifying within a computer-based document stored on computer-readable storage medium, a candidate redaction element that is of a predefined redaction element type, identifying an evaluation element that is of a predefined evaluation element type and that is associated with the candidate redaction element, identifying a predefined logic expression that is associated with the redaction element type and that operates on the evaluation element type, evaluating the logic expression which generates a value, identifying a predefined permission expression that is associated with the logic expression, that operates on the value, and that is associated with a recipient role, evaluating the permission expression, which identifies a redaction directive, and applying the redaction directive to the candidate redaction element within the computer-based document prior to the computer-based document being provided to a recipient having the recipient role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Josemina Marcella Magdalen, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 9158836
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas V. Chitiveli, Joshua Fox, Josemina M. Magdalen, Michael Pelts
  • Publication number: 20150220758
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Shlomit AVRAHAMI, Joshua FOX, Yuri KOSHAROVSKY, Michael PELTS, Vladislav P. RYBAK, Ora SHAPIRO
  • Publication number: 20150187104
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a visual representation of a graph are described herein. The techniques may include determining a metamodel indicating relationships between objects, and determining rules for obscuring data about the objects of the metamodel. A visual representation of a graph is generated, which visual representation illustrates at least some of the data about the objects and their relationships without illustrating the obscured data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon
  • Publication number: 20150187103
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a visual representation of a graph are described herein. The techniques may include determining a metamodel indicating relationships between objects, and determining rules for obscuring data about the objects of the metamodel. A visual representation of a graph is generated, which visual representation illustrates at least some of the data about the objects and their relationships without illustrating the obscured data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon
  • Patent number: 9069843
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas V. Chitiveli, Joshua Fox, Josemina M. Magdalen, Michael Pelts
  • Publication number: 20150161406
    Abstract: Redacting material in a user interface is provided. A monitoring agent waits for a change in input or output of user content. A change comparator identifies the change for sensitive material. A type comparator identifies the type of sensitive material. A redaction engine redacts the change according to the identified type of sensitive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon, Peter Hagelund
  • Patent number: 9043929
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts, Vladislav P. Rybak, Ora Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20150113465
    Abstract: A method enables a user to fill an input field on a single display. An input field is generated on a user interface, wherein the input field has a plurality of character entry subfields and at least one constraint for at least one of said plurality of character entry subfields. A set of characters selected for input from said input field according to said at least one constraint of at least one of said plurality of character entry subfields is received, and a virtual keyboard on a single display is generated and presented, wherein only said set of characters are presented on said virtual keyboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Itai Gordon
  • Publication number: 20150113466
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method generates a character input from an interface. A plurality of consecutive character rows are presented, simultaneously on a single display, to a user, wherein each one of said plurality of character rows comprises a set of characters. One or more processors receive a selection by a user of a single character in each one of said plurality of character rows to generate a set of user selected characters. The set of user selected characters are then converted into a single complete input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: JOSHUA FOX, ITAI GORDON
  • Patent number: 8959654
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts, Vladislav P. Rybak, Ora Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20140317758
    Abstract: Personal information is retrieved from at least one data source and personal information associated with a first individual is identified. A document is generated that is a version of a first document, wherein the personal information associated with the first individual cannot be discerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts