Patents by Inventor Lisa M. Ungar

Lisa M. Ungar 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: 9043697
    Abstract: A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for modifying a document according to a display context, the method including providing a document for display, the document comprising a function for determining a display context and modifying a style of the document, determining the display context for display of the document, modifying the style of the document according to the context, and displaying the document according to a modified style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Sava, Lisa M. Ungar
  • Patent number: 7543232
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product that combines techniques in the fields of search, data mining, collaborative filtering, user ratings and referral mappings into a system for intelligent web-based help for task or transaction oriented web based systems. The system makes use of a service oriented architecture based on metadata and web services to locate, categorize and provide relevant context sensitive help, including found help not available when the web based system or application was first developed. As part of the inventive system, there is additionally provided a system for providing an integrated information taxonomy which combines automatically, semi-automatically, and manually generated taxonomies and applies them to help systems. This aspect of the invention is applicable to the fields of online self-help systems for web sites and software applications as well as to customer, supplier and employee help desks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert E. Easton, Jr., Neal M. Keller, Juhnyoung Lee, Lisa M. Ungar
  • Publication number: 20080301540
    Abstract: A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for modifying a document according to a display context, the method including providing a document for display, the document comprising a function for determining a display context and modifying a style of the document, determining the display context for display of the document, modifying the style of the document according to the context, and displaying the document according to a modified style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Sava, Lisa M. Ungar
  • Patent number: 6976078
    Abstract: The field of distributed authoring systems, and more particularly the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, the authoring system is provided a process for access by simultaneous users, which employs control structures through an access control engine for dynamically selecting content and display components of an authoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A. Icken, Neal M. Keller, Lisa M. Ungar
  • Patent number: 6839878
    Abstract: The field of distributed authoring systems, and more particularly the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, there is provided a selection mechanism which employs control structures for dynamically selecting content and supplying display components to form a customized and dynamically changeable display on a display mechanism of said authoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A. Icken, Neal M. Keller, Lisa M. Ungar
  • Patent number: 6816906
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of distributed authoring systems, and particularly to the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, the authoring system is provided with a mechanism for the creating of customizable control structures for an access control engine which is adapted to select criteria to provide system access to selective authors or users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A. Icken, Neal M. Keller, Lisa M. Ungar
  • Patent number: 6662181
    Abstract: The field of distributed authoring systems, and more particularly to the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, there is provided a selection mechanism which employs control structures for dynamically selecting content and display components of an authoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A. Icken, Neal M. Keller, Lisa M. Ungar