Patents by Inventor Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland

Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland 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).

  • Systems and methods for presenting electronic contact lists
    Patent number: 9449103
    Abstract: Described are a conference management system and method for displaying a contact list of an application on a computing system. A contact list of an application is provided. Context information related to a user of the contact list is detected. At least one rule is applied to the context information. User contacts in the contact list arranged in a display order in response to the at least one rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Mark Ernest Wallace, Michael Cronin
  • System and method for managing hunt groups
    Patent number: 8984062
    Abstract: A computing device defines one or more hunt groups on a client, wherein the one or more hunt groups are defined based, at least in part, upon information specific to the client. The computing device receives a request for a communication session at the client. The request for the communication session is directed, by the computing device, to one or more members of the one or more hunt groups based, at least in part, upon the one or more defined hunt groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark E. Wallace, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland, Michael Cronin
  • Counteracting spam in voice over internet protocol telephony systems
    Patent number: 8953471
    Abstract: An approach is provided to detect a spam message transmitted over a packetized, network-based telephony system. A request to initiate a first voice communication session is received from a requestor. A voice communications session is established with the requestor over the computer network. An audible ringing tone is sent to the requestor over the established voice communications session. While the audible ringing tone is being sent, audio data that is received from the requestor is analyzed. If the analysis detects an audible message in the audio data, then the requestor is identified as a possible spam source. On the other hand, if the analysis fails to detect the audible message in the audio data then the established voice communications session is handled as a non-spam event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Stephen Renwick, Mark E. Wallace
  • Counteracting Spam in Voice Over Internet Protocol Telephony Systems
    Publication number: 20130176865
    Abstract: An approach is provided to detect a spam message transmitted over a packetized, network-based telephony system. A request to initiate a first voice communication session is received from a requestor. A voice communications session is established with the requestor over the computer network. An audible ringing tone is sent to the requestor over the established voice communications session. While the audible ringing tone is being sent, audio data that is received from the requestor is analyzed. If the analysis detects an audible message in the audio data, then the requestor is identified as a possible spam source. On the other hand, if the analysis fails to detect the audible message in the audio data then the established voice communications session is handled as a non-spam event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Stephen Renwick, Mark E. Wallace
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING ELECTRONIC CONTACT LISTS
    Publication number: 20120226704
    Abstract: Described are a conference management system and method for displaying a contact list of an application on a computing system. A contact list of an application is provided. Context information related to a user of the contact list is detected. At least one rule is applied to the context information. User contacts in the contact list arranged in a display order in response to the at least one rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Mark E. Wallace, Michael Cronin
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HUNT GROUPS
    Publication number: 20110320534
    Abstract: A computing device defines one or more hunt groups on a client, wherein the one or more hunt groups are defined based, at least in part, upon information specific to the client. The computing device receives a request for a communication session at the client. The request for the communication session is directed, by the computing device, to one or more members of the one or more hunt groups based, at least in part, upon the one or more defined hunt groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark E. Wallace, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Kieran Gerard Anthony Boland, Michael Cronin