Patents by Inventor Joshua Schaeffer

Joshua Schaeffer 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: 20180089168
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for performing automated operations to analyze and prioritize incoming user messages. An indication of a message sent to a recipient user is received. Based at least in part on configuration information associated with the recipient user, the received message is analyzed. Analyzing the received message includes at least one of determining sentiments associated with the received message, determining intentions associated with the received message, determining document classes associated with the received message, and generating summary information corresponding to the received message. Based at least in part on the analyzing of the received message, a prioritized listing of multiple messages associated with the recipient user, including the received message, is displayed to the recipient user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Eli M. Dow, Syed F. Hossain, Joshua Schaeffer, Yunli Tang
  • Publication number: 20180082386
    Abstract: Techniques for providing individualized risk assessments are provided. A computer-implemented method for providing individualized risk assessments can include receiving, by a processor, event data for a user, the event data comprising one or more event characteristics; obtaining, by the processor, a user profile comprising one or more personal characteristics of the user; obtaining, by the processor from at least one database containing risk elements, a subset of risk elements relevant to the event characteristics and the personal characteristics; and generating, by the processor, a report based on the subset of risk elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Eli M. Dow, Syed F. Hossain, Joshua Schaeffer, Yunli Tang
  • Patent number: 9860280
    Abstract: Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for onboarding a new employee to an organization. Aspects include receiving, by a processor, employee data comprising an employee group associated with the new employee of the organization. Identifying other employees that belong to the employee group and obtaining a set of permissions associated with each of the other employees. Determining a set of group permissions based on a combination of the set of permissions of each of the other employees. Aspects also include calculating an access score for each of the set of group permissions, and determining a set of suggested access permissions for the new employee based on the set of group permissions and the access score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Eli M. Dow, Syed F. Hossain, Joshua A. Schaeffer, Yunli Tang
  • Patent number: 9733933
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically identifying a comment change deficiency by a code editing component executed by a processor. The automatic identification of the comment changes includes determining whether one or more character changes exist between a first code version and a second code version and determining whether one or more logical changes exist between the first code version and the second code version. Note that the first code comment relates to the character or the logical changes within the first code version. Further, the automatic identification of the comment changes includes identifying the at least one comment related to the character or the logical changes and generating a notification including the at least one comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregg M Arquero, Eli M. Dow, Syed F. Hossain, Joshua A. Schaeffer, Yunli Tang