Patents by Inventor Mark J Hamzy
Mark J Hamzy 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: 8190957Abstract: A system and method of utilizing a network to correct flawed media data. The media device includes a processor, a memory, a network adapter, a removable media interface, an error-correction module, and a communication module. The network device enables the media device to connect to the network and server. The removable media interface enables a user to couple a removable medium to the media device. After a user inserts a removable medium into the removable media interface, the processor and error-correction module examines the removable medium for physical errors. If the number of detected errors exceeds a predetermined threshold, the media device, via the network adapter and the communication module, queries a server for correction data. This correction data may be utilized by the media device to enable successful processing of the data stored on the removable medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark J. Hamzy, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh, Jr.
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Patent number: 7873259Abstract: A recording system receives a broadcast signal from at least one service provider. An offset controller of the recording system samples a portion of the current broadcast signal on a particular channel over a particular interval of time. The offset controller then compares the sampled portion with a selection of features anticipated to be broadcast during the particular interval of time. Next, if the offset controller detects that a particular feature from among the selection of features matches within the portion of the current broadcast signal, then the offset controller calculates an offset time from a difference between an expected time for broadcast of the particular feature and an actual time of broadcast. The recording time for a program to be recorded is initially set to the start time and end time from a predetermined broadcast schedule.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark J. Hamzy, Johnny M. Shieh
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Patent number: 7571105Abstract: Weight based upselling, including receiving a purchase request for an item from a customer; determining a weight of the item; identifying, in dependence upon the weight of the item, a shipping weight range and a shipping cost for the item, where the shipping weight range includes a maximum shipping weight; calculating a difference between the weight of the item and the maximum shipping weight in the shipping weight range; selecting an upsell item in dependence upon the difference between the weight of the item and the maximum shipping weight in the shipping weight range; and offering the upsell item to the customer, including offering to ship both the item and the upsell item for only the identified shipping cost.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark J. Hamzy, Edward S. Rozmiarek
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Patent number: 7568143Abstract: A system and method of utilizing a network to correct flawed media data. The media device includes a processor, a memory, a network adapter, a removable media interface, an error-correction module, and a communication module. The network device enables the media device to connect to the network and server. The removable media interface enables a user to couple a removable medium to the media device. After a user inserts a removable medium into the removable media interface, the processor and error-correction module examines the removable medium for physical errors. If the number of detected errors exceeds a predetermined threshold, the media device, via the network adapter and the communication module, queries a server for correction data. This correction data may be utilized by the media device to enable successful processing of the data stored on the removable medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark J. Hamzy, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
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Publication number: 20080222476Abstract: A system and method of utilizing a network to correct flawed media data. The media device includes a processor, a memory, a network adapter, a removable media interface, an error-correction module, and a communication module. The network device enables the media device to connect to the network and server. The removable media interface enables a user to couple a removable medium to the media device. After a user inserts a removable medium into the removable media interface, the processor and error-correction module examines the removable medium for physical errors. If the number of detected errors exceeds a predetermined threshold, the media device, via the network adapter and the communication module, queries a server for correction data. This correction data may be utilized by the media device to enable successful processing of the data stored on the removable medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP.Inventors: Mark J. Hamzy, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
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Patent number: 6636247Abstract: A system and method for extending a display of advertisements on a client web browser as provided. The method includes a response to a request for a web page presenting an advertisement associated with a web page and randomly embedding a control for proceeding to the web page in the display of the advertisement. Upon presenting the advertisement for display, a randomly displayed feature must be activated by the user. Thereupon in response to the user activation of the control, the advertisement is deleted and the display proceeds to the requested web page, thereby displaying advertisements for extended viewing by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark J. Hamzy, Michael R. Cooper, Mark W. Vanderwiele
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Patent number: 6623527Abstract: A document written in a markup language is intercepted and a markup language string inserted. When read by a browser which understands the markup language, a modified document is presented incorporating a button for a network service such as printing. The inserted markup language used to present the button also includes a path to a server to perform a network service related to the modified document.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1997Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Mark J. Hamzy
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Patent number: 6201611Abstract: A print rendering server system in a network computing environment perform many of the most compute intensive tasks in the overall print process for a plurality of resource limited clients. In response to a print request from the client, a print job in a print ready format is produced and sent back for local printing by the resource limited client system.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1997Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keith Edward Carter, Mark J Hamzy, Patrick Nogay, Mark Wayne VanderWiele