Patents by Inventor Mia Stern
Mia Stern 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: 7865560Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
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Patent number: 7849147Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
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Publication number: 20090144665Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for graphical user interface presentation to implement filtering of a large unbounded hierarchy. Exemplary embodiments include a system having a processor for retrieving the file hierarchy tree for presentation on a computer monitor, the file hierarchy tree representative of a plurality of nodes, navigating the file hierarchy tree to identify nodes for selection in a sub-group of nodes, presenting the selected node with a highlight on the computer monitor, displaying a menu on the computer monitor including an option to create a filter, displaying a popup dialog box on the computer monitor, the popup dialog box including an option to create a new filter and edit an existing filter, and displaying a filtered hierarchy tree on the computer monitor, the filtered hierarchy tree including the sub-group of nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Howard B. Bernstein, Adrien Bisson, Eleonora Ludin, Mia Stern
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Patent number: 7437686Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for graphical user interface presentation to implement filtering of a large unbounded hierarchy. Exemplary embodiments include a method including retrieving the file hierarchy tree for presentation on the display, the file hierarchy tree representative of a plurality of nodes, navigating the file hierarchy tree to identify nodes for selection in a sub-group of nodes, receiving a node selection signal, presenting the selected node with a highlight on the display, receiving a menu selection signal, displaying a menu on the display including an option to create a filter, receiving a filter creation selection signal, displaying a popup dialog box on the display, the popup dialog box including an option to create a new filter and edit an existing filter, receiving a dialog box selection signal and displaying a filtered hierarchy tree on the display, the filtered hierarchy tree including the sub-group of nodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Howard B. Bernstein, Adrien Bisson, Eleonora Ludin, Mia Stern
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Publication number: 20080244372Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
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Publication number: 20080192302Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
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Patent number: 7392280Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
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Publication number: 20050149858Abstract: An apparatus and method identifies, handles, and/or searches for email messages that include references to dates and/or times, regardless of the syntax or context in which the dates and/or times are expressed in the document. Each incoming document is searched for date-time expressions which may be converted into a canonically formatted date and stored for subsequent comparison to other date-time expressions. In some embodiments of the invention, a mechanism is provided for creating a calendar event from the date-time expression in the document. In some embodiments of the invention, a calendar icon indicates whether a document includes a date-time expression. In some embodiments of the invention, documents that include a date-time expression corresponding to a particular date may be retrieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: July 7, 2005Inventors: Mia Stern, Daniel Gruen, John Patterson, Bernard Kerr
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Publication number: 20030158903Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt