Patents by Inventor Mark N. Walters

Mark N. Walters 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).

  • Socially enabled guidance for products with GUIs
    Patent number: 10388182
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to socially enabled guidance for products with GUIs. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: recording a set of sequential graphical user interface (GUI) interactions in a product GUI; saving the set of sequential GUI interactions in a file; importing the file containing the set of sequential GUI interactions; parsing the file to extract the set of sequential GUI interactions; highlighting a GUI interaction listed in the set of sequential GUI interactions; and in response to a user selection of the highlighted GUI interaction, highlighting a next GUI interaction listed in the set of sequential GUI interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Castle, Andrew D. Humphreys, Martin G. Keen, John J. P. McNamara, Mark N. Walters
  • SOCIALLY ENABLED GUIDANCE FOR PRODUCTS WITH GUIS
    Publication number: 20160147397
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to socially enabled guidance for products with GUIs. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: recording a set of sequential graphical user interface (GUI) interactions in a product GUI; saving the set of sequential GUI interactions in a file; importing the file containing the set of sequential GUI interactions; parsing the file to extract the set of sequential GUI interactions; highlighting a GUI interaction listed in the set of sequential GUI interactions; and in response to a user selection of the highlighted GUI interaction, highlighting a next GUI interaction listed in the set of sequential GUI interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Mark A. Castle, Andrew D. Humphreys, Martin G. Keen, John J.P. McNamara, Mark N. Walters
  • CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY OPERATOR FOR EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130144814
    Abstract: An event processing system in which a computer receives an input event comprising one or more factors. The computer evaluates the factors of the input event based on an event processing rule containing a pattern detection operator and a conditional probability operator. The conditional probability operator can operate to calculate a conditional probability for a set of training data that a specified pattern will appear in the factors of an input event given a specified output event, and can further operate to assign a conditional rule value a binary value based on how the conditional probability compares to a target probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Doina L. Klinger, John J. P. McNamara, Erhan Mengusoglu, Mark N. Walters, Xiaoming Zhang