Patents by Inventor Lorraine M. Herger
Lorraine M. Herger 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).
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Patent number: 11222323Abstract: Systems and methods provide at least one software application to users from a software monitor computer server. The software application requires a license grant for use. The software monitor computer server tracks usage of the software application to develop historical use patterns. The software monitor computer server also receives calendar input from electronic calendars of the users and analyzing the calendar input to identify future calendared uses of the software application. This allows the software monitor computer server to predict the future license grant needs of the software application based on the historical use patterns and the future calendared uses of the software application. The software monitor computer server also provides substitute software applications to the users when an insufficient number of license grants are available to meet the future calendared uses of the software application.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vijay K. Aggarwal, Lorraine M. Herger, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 10965635Abstract: Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 10847263Abstract: A system and method tracks touches in a healthcare environment in order to analyze paths of transmission and contamination for the purpose of eliminating and containing transmission of colonizing, drug-resistant pathogens. Touches are identified and tracked with the use of recording devices. Each touch is logged and a touch graph is generated to identify transmission paths.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 10734108Abstract: A system and method tracks touches in a healthcare environment in order to analyze paths of transmission and contamination for the purpose of eliminating and containing transmission of colonizing, drug-resistant pathogens. Touches are identified and tracked with the use of recording devices. Each touch is logged and a touch graph is generated to identify transmission paths.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 10614129Abstract: An application processing system for placing applications and their associated data into a colocation data center, wherein an application placement module is configured to perform the method of steps including: constructing a facility communication node graph; constructing a composite elastic map which represents the compute nodes in the colocation data center; associating a force function between two nodes based on communication bandwidth; constructing an application usage data space; inserting the node graph into the application data space; assigning the applications to the compute nodes; associating a force function between each application and each compute node based on the assignment; determining an elastic map energy (EME) for the elastic map, wherein the EME is the total energy of the system; and assigning the real-world applications to the real-world compute nodes in the data center if the EME is less than a threshold energy.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Publication number: 20200104818Abstract: Systems and methods provide at least one software application to users from a software monitor computer server. The software application requires a license grant for use. The software monitor computer server tracks usage of the software application to develop historical use patterns. The software monitor computer server also receives calendar input from electronic calendars of the users and analyzing the calendar input to identify future calendared uses of the software application. This allows the software monitor computer server to predict the future license grant needs of the software application based on the historical use patterns and the future calendared uses of the software application. The software monitor computer server also provides substitute software applications to the users when an insufficient number of license grants are available to meet the future calendared uses of the software application.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vijay K. Aggarwal, Lorraine M. Herger, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 10592887Abstract: Systems and methods provide at least one software application to users from a software monitor computer server. The software application requires a license grant for use. The software monitor computer server tracks usage of the software application to develop historical use patterns. The software monitor computer server also receives calendar input from electronic calendars of the users and analyzing the calendar input to identify future calendared uses of the software application. This allows the software monitor computer server to predict the future license grant needs of the software application based on the historical use patterns and the future calendared uses of the software application. The software monitor computer server also provides substitute software applications to the users when an insufficient number of license grants are available to meet the future calendared uses of the software application.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vijay K. Aggarwal, Lorraine M. Herger, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 10491473Abstract: Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 10164830Abstract: Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 10135770Abstract: Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Publication number: 20180176167Abstract: Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 9942186Abstract: Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Publication number: 20180077017Abstract: Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. HERGER, Neal M. KELLER, James R. KOZLOSKI, Matthew A. McCARTHY, Clifford A. PICKOVER, Andrew P. WYSKIDA
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Publication number: 20180077018Abstract: Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Lorraine M. HERGER, Neal M. KELLER, James R. KOZLOSKI, Matthew A. McCARTHY, Clifford A. PICKOVER, Andrew P. WYSKIDA
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Patent number: 9904741Abstract: An application processing system for placing applications and their associated data into a colocation data center, wherein an application placement module is configured to perform the method of steps including: constructing a facility communication node graph; constructing a composite elastic map which represents the compute nodes in the colocation data center; associating a force function between two nodes based on communication bandwidth; constructing an application usage data space; inserting the node graph into the application data space; assigning the applications to the compute nodes; associating a force function between each application and each compute node based on the assignment; determining an elastic map energy (EME) for the elastic map, wherein the EME is the total energy of the system; and assigning the real-world applications to the real-world compute nodes in the data center if the EME is less than a threshold energy.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Publication number: 20180039711Abstract: An application processing system for placing applications and their associated data into a colocation data center, wherein an application placement module is configured to perform the method of steps including: constructing a facility communication node graph; constructing a composite elastic map which represents the compute nodes in the colocation data center; associating a force function between two nodes based on communication bandwidth; constructing an application usage data space; inserting the node graph into the application data space; assigning the applications to the compute nodes; associating a force function between each application and each compute node based on the assignment; determining an elastic map energy (EME) for the elastic map, wherein the EME is the total energy of the system; and assigning the real-world applications to the real-world compute nodes in the data center if the EME is less than a threshold energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 9882777Abstract: Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 9860123Abstract: Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
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Patent number: 9798299Abstract: Various embodiments manage the operation of a substrate penetrating device. In one embodiment, a set of location information associated with a substrate penetrating device is received. At least one database including information associated with obstructed objects is queried based on the set of location information. A determination is made, based on the querying, that the area where the substrate penetrating device is operating includes at least one obstructed object. A probability is calculated with respect to the substrate penetrating device encountering the at least one obstructed object while operating in the area.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, James R. Kozloski, Andrew Wyskida
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Publication number: 20170213079Abstract: A system and method tracks touches in a healthcare environment in order to analyze paths of transmission and contamination for the purpose of eliminating and containing transmission of colonizing, drug-resistant pathogens. Touches are identified and tracked with the use of recording devices. Each touch is logged and a touch graph is generated to identify transmission paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida