Patents by Inventor Michael Gilfix

Michael Gilfix 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: 8924650
    Abstract: A cache server receives a request from a client that includes a requesting entity tag. In turn, the cache server extracts a starting identifier and an ending identifier from the requesting entity tag. The starting identifier is associated with a starting entry and the ending identifier is associated with an ending entry. Next, the cache server determines whether a subsequent entity tag exists that includes a subsequent starting identifier that matches the requesting entity tag's ending identifier. When the cache server identifies a subsequent entity tag, the cache server sends the subsequent entity tag and one or more update entries corresponding to the subsequent entity tag to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Benson Kwuan-Yi Chen, Michael Gilfix, Victor S. Moore, Anthony William Wrobel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8331351
    Abstract: A messaging service communicates with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application session by registering the SIP application session with a messaging server, and then publishing an addressable messaging endpoint corresponding to the SIP application session in response to registering the SIP 15 application session with the messaging server. Consequently, communication with the SIP application session can occur via messages directed to the published addressable messaging endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gilfix, Rhys D. Ulerich
  • Patent number: 8322848
    Abstract: A method for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Patent number: 8312383
    Abstract: A method, programmed medium and system are provided for enabling a user to move a piece of data or context to another page in a mashup application. Rather than linking directly between pages, pages are “linked” by a drag-and-drop action of the user. To move a piece of data or context to another page, the user drags an item from the current mashup page onto the tab of a target page to which the data item is to be moved. The dropping of a text item on, for example, a tab of a target page causes an event to be fired on the target page, which may be wired to widgets contained within the target page. The target tab is then brought into focus and its page contents displayed. Visual indicators are also provided on source pages to indicate the target pages, which will “accept” the dragged contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Patent number: 8286074
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are provided for parsing a document. A match point tuple is passed to a parser instance. The match point tuple comprises a match point. The parser instance stream parses an XML stream. In response to a match point statement in the XML stream matching the match point expression in the match point tuple, the parser instance constructs a DOM instance comprising XML content matching the match point. In a sample embodiment, the match point tuple further comprises a filter, and the parser instance adds XML statements that pass the filter to the DOM instance and discards statements that do not pass the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dhandapani Shanmugam, Michael Gilfix
  • Publication number: 20120206773
    Abstract: A method for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Patent number: 8229903
    Abstract: A system and method for utilizing data mining to generate a policy document or to revise theory within a policy document. A data base of unknown events is mined for application to the development of a system management policy document. The results of the data mining of the database of unknown events are automatically incorporated into a policy document, subject to user approval, to produce a new policy document or an updated version of an existing policy document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul T. Baffes, John Michael Garrison, Michael Gilfix, Allan Hsu, Tyron Jerrod Stading
  • Patent number: 8199174
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Patent number: 8051136
    Abstract: Methods, systems, processes and devices are provided for optimizing throughput and quality of service of a presence enabled managed service. The method includes at least a first entity requesting from an aggregator of presence services presence information of a second entity. The method includes looking up a profile of the aggregator stored in a cache of a presence server hosted by the presence enabled managed service. The method includes determining from the profile an aggregator level of service the aggregator has subscribed to from the presence enabled managed service, wherein the aggregator level of service is one of high level service, medium level service, and low level service. The method includes storing presence information of the second entity on a presence document on the cache and returning the presence information to the first entity based upon the aggregator level of service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Dingler, Michael Gilfix, Pramodh D. Narayan, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
  • Patent number: 7941854
    Abstract: A method and system for managing an intrusion on a computer by graphically representing an intrusion pattern of a known past intrusion, and then comparing the intrusion pattern of the known intrusion with a current intrusion. The intrusion pattern may either be based on intrusion events, which are the effects of the intrusion or activities that provide a signature of the type of intrusion, or the intrusion pattern may be based on hardware topology that is affected by the intrusion. The intrusion pattern is graphically displayed with scripted responses, which in a preferred embodiment are presented in pop-up windows associated with each node in the intrusion pattern. Alternatively, the response to the intrusion may be automatic, based on a pre-determined percentage of common features in the intrusion pattern of the known past intrusion and the current intrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul T. Baffes, John Michael Garrison, Michael Gilfix, Allan Hsu, Tyron Jerrod Stading
  • Patent number: 7895589
    Abstract: Systems and methods of application integration, including constructing an application integration adapter in dependence upon a profile including data describing the adapter, receiving instructions to alter the adapter, and altering the adapter in dependence upon the instructions. Exemplary embodiments of the invention include communicating integration messages among applications through the adapter as altered. In typical embodiments, receiving instructions to alter the adapter includes detecting changes in the adapter profile. In such embodiments, detecting changes in the adapter profile includes creating a copy of the profile, and periodically comparing the profile and the copy. In other exemplary embodiments, receiving instructions to alter the adapter includes receiving from an application an administrative integration message bearing the instructions to alter the adapter. In such embodiments, altering the adapter in dependence upon the instructions includes updating the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gilfix, Jerry Walter Malcolm, Foluso Olaiya Okunseinde, Tyron Jerrod Stading, Paul Stuart Williamson, Scott Lee Winters
  • Publication number: 20110022955
    Abstract: A method, programmed medium and system are provided for enabling a user to move a piece of data or context to another page in a mashup application. Rather than linking directly between pages, pages are “linked” by a drag-and-drop action of the user. To move a piece of data or context to another page, the user drags an item from the current mashup page onto the tab of a target page to which the data item is to be moved. The dropping of a text item on, for example, a tab of a target page causes an event to be fired on the target page, which may be wired to widgets contained within the target page. The target tab is then brought into focus and its page contents displayed. Visual indicators are also provided on source pages to indicate the target pages, which will “accept” the dragged contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Patent number: 7748748
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating and authenticating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Publication number: 20100161820
    Abstract: A multi-protocol authentication and authorization system including a request interceptor configured to receive from a requestor a first request using a first transport protocol and a second request using a second transport protocol, and an authenticator for validating a digest received from the requestor, where the request interceptor is configured to authenticate the requestor if the digest is valid and if at least one multi-protocol criterion applied to the requests is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dror Yaffe, Michael Gilfix
  • Patent number: 7702914
    Abstract: A method for providing access control to a single sign-on computer network is disclosed. A user is assigned to multiple groups within a computer network. In response to an access request by the user, the computer network determines a group pass count based on a user profile of the user. The group pass count is a number of groups in which the access request meets all their access requirements. The computer network grants the access request if the group pass count is greater than a predetermined high group pass threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul T. Baffes, John Michael Garrison, Michael Gilfix, Allan Hsu, Tyron Jerrod Stading
  • Publication number: 20100094984
    Abstract: Methods, systems, processes and devices are provided for optimizing throughput and quality of service of a presence enabled managed service. The method includes at least a first entity requesting from an aggregator of presence services presence information of a second entity. The method includes looking up a profile of the aggregator stored in a cache of a presence server hosted by the presence enabled managed service. The method includes determining from the profile an aggregator level of service the aggregator has subscribed to from the presence enabled managed service, wherein the aggregator level of service is one of high level service, medium level service, and low level service. The method includes storing presence information of the second entity on a presence document on the cache and returning the presence information to the first entity based upon the aggregator level of service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Dingler, Michael Gilfix, Pramodh D. Narayan, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
  • Patent number: 7698443
    Abstract: A multi-protocol authentication and authorization system including a request interceptor configured to receive from a requestor a first request using a first transport protocol and a second request using a second transport protocol, and an authenticator for validating a digest received from the requestor, where the request interceptor is configured to authenticate the requestor if the digest is valid and if at least one multi-protocol criterion applied to the requests is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dror Yaffe, Michael Gilfix
  • Publication number: 20100083099
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are provided for parsing a document. A match point tuple is passed to a parser instance. The match point tuple comprises a match point. The parser instance stream parses an XML stream. In response to a match point statement in the XML stream matching the match point expression in the match point tuple, the parser instance constructs a DOM instance comprising XML content matching the match point. In a sample embodiment, the match point tuple further comprises a filter, and the parser instance adds XML statements that pass the filter to the DOM instance and discards statements that do not pass the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines
    Inventors: Dhandapani Shanmugam, Michael Gilfix
  • Publication number: 20100073415
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Gilfix
  • Publication number: 20100063995
    Abstract: A cache server receives a request from a client that includes a requesting entity tag. In turn, the cache server extracts a starting identifier and an ending identifier from the requesting entity tag. The starting identifier is associated with a starting entry and the ending identifier is associated with an ending entry. Next, the cache server determines whether a subsequent entity tag exists that includes a subsequent starting identifier that matches the requesting entity tag's ending identifier. When the cache server identifies a subsequent entity tag, the cache server sends the subsequent entity tag and one or more update entries corresponding to the subsequent entity tag to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Benson Kwuan-Yi Chen, Michael Gilfix, Victor S. Moore, Anthony William Wrobel, JR.