Patents by Inventor Michael John Burkhart
Michael John Burkhart 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: 8112509Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include receiving a domain state object, identifying an action in dependence upon the domain state object, and executing the action. In many exemplary embodiments, receiving a domain state object includes receiving a signal to download the domain state object from a mobile sensor, and downloading the domain state object from the mobile sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 8112499Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering devices that include creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector if the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, and executing the action.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel Gene Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas James Watson
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Patent number: 8010885Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery with a presenter alterable session copy of a user profile. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; providing a session copy of a user profile including a user classification; receiving, from a presenter, a user classification instruction to change a user classification in the session copy of a user profile; changing the user classification in the session copy of a user profile in dependence upon the presenter's instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon a user classification in the session copy of a user profile of a user in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 8001454Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; receiving a prerecorded presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon the prerecorded presentation control instruction and in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user. In typical embodiments, the prerecorded presentation control instruction has an associated time stamp.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7962581Abstract: Configuring a client device, including receiving, at a vendor, user provided configuration parameters for the client device from a user, receiving at the vendor, a configuration bundle for the client device from a manufacturer, and associating the user provided configuration parameters for the client device with the configuration bundle for the client device, thereby producing an associated configuration bundle.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2002Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart
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Patent number: 7921362Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for differential dynamic content delivery. Typical embodiments of the present invention include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element bearing a preview designation; and presenting the selected structural element to a prospective user participant. In many embodiments, selecting a classified structural element bearing a preview designation further comprises selecting a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a prospective user participant.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7890848Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; receiving a presentation control instruction to present a classified structural element of the session document, wherein the classified structural element comprises one or more versions of presentation content; determining whether at least one version of presentation content of the classified structural element exists for a user; identifying alternative display content for the user if no version of presentation content of the classified structural element exists for the user; and presenting the identified alternative display content to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7882437Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a voice response grammar in a voice response server including identifying presentation documents for a presentation, each presentation document having a presentation grammar. Typical embodiments include storing each presentation grammar in a voice response grammar on a voice response server. In typical embodiments, identifying presentation documents for a presentation includes creating a data structure representing a presentation and listing at least one presentation document in the data structure representing a presentation. In typical embodiments listing the at least one presentation document includes storing a location of the presentation document in the data structure representing a presentation and storing each presentation grammar includes retrieving a presentation grammar of the presentation document in dependence upon the location of the presentation document.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7849459Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are provided for deploying Java applications in resource constrained environments. Embodiments include identifying a resource constraint of a target system and filtering the Java application in dependence upon the identified resource constraint. In many embodiments, identifying a resource constraint of a target system includes identifying limited runtime processing capabilities of the target system and filtering the Java application in dependence upon the identified resource constraint includes preprocessing a tag library of the Java application. In some embodiments, preprocessing a tag library is carried out by identifying a tag library descriptor of the Java application and copying a listener from the tag library descriptor to a deployment descriptor for the Java application.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael John Burkhart, David Klein, Brian Thomas Lillie, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7779114Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering devices that include creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, and selecting, from the plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space. Administering devices also includes determining whether the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector, if the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, and executing the action.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel Gene Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas James Watson
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Patent number: 7634412Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a voice response grammar in a voice response server that include identifying a user for a presentation, the user having a user grammar, the user grammar including one or more user grammar elements and storing a multiplicity of user grammar elements for the user in a voice response grammar on a voice response server. In typical embodiments, identifying a user for a presentation includes creating a data structure representing a presentation and listing in the data structure at least one user identification. In typical embodiments, each grammar element includes an identifier of a structural element, a key phrase for invoking a presentation action, and a presentation action identifier representing a presentation action.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2003Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7571380Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery with a presenter alterable session copy of a user profile. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; providing a session copy of a user profile including a user classification; receiving, from a presenter, a user classification instruction to change a user classification in the session copy of a user profile; changing the user classification in the session copy of a user profile in dependence upon the presenter's instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon a user classification in the session copy of a user profile of a user in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7567908Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to the user; streaming presentation speech to the user including individual speech from at least one user participating in the presentation; converting the presentation speech to text; detecting whether the presentation speech contains simultaneous individual speech from two or more users; and displaying the text if the presentation speech contains simultaneous individual speech from two or more users.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Publication number: 20090106668Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery, including creating a session document for a presentation, including identifying a user participant for the presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document, the user participant has a user profile comprising user classifications and user interests, the user interests comprising data fields for storing data values indicating user interest in one or more subjects of the presentation; receiving from the identified user participant at least one data value indicating user interest in one or more subjects of the presentation; storing in the user profile the data value indicating user interest; recreating the session document in dependence upon the data value indicating user interest; selecting from the recreated session document a classified structural element; and presenting the selected structural element to at least one user participant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel M. Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7523388Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery that includes providing a session document for a presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document, and the session structured document includes at least one structural element classified with at least one classification identifier; establishing a planned agenda for the presentation, where the planned agenda includes planned durations for presentation of structural elements and a planned sequence for presentation of structural elements; selecting from the session document a classified structural element; presenting the selected structural element to a user participant; recording, during the presentation, identities of presented structural elements, durations of presentation of presented structural elements, and sequence of presentation of presented structural elements; and comparing the planned agenda with the recorded identities, durations, and sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel M. Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Publication number: 20090099842Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a voice response grammar in a voice response server including identifying presentation documents for a presentation, each presentation document having a presentation grammar. Typical embodiments include storing each presentation grammar in a voice response grammar on a voice response server. In typical embodiments, identifying presentation documents for a presentation includes creating a data structure representing a presentation and listing at least one presentation document in the data structure representing a presentation. In typical embodiments listing the at least one presentation document includes storing a location of the presentation document in the data structure representing a presentation and storing each presentation grammar includes retrieving a presentation grammar of the presentation document in dependence upon the location of the presentation document.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7519904Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation including a session grammar and a session structured document, the session structured document including a classified structural element for a first user who will not attend a presentation and a classified structural element for a second user who will attend the presentation; receiving, during the presentation, presentation control instructions controlling the presentation; selecting during the presentation classified structural elements for the second user in dependence upon the presentation control instructions and user classifications of the second user; presenting to the second user during the presentation the selected classified structural elements for the second user; selecting, after the presentation, classified structural elements for the first user in dependence upon the recorded presentation control instructions and the user classifications of the first user; and presenting after the presentation the clasType: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 7516405Abstract: Methods, systems, and products for displaying a help resource associated with a device on a remote display apparatus are provided. Some embodiments of methods, systems, and products for displaying a help resource associated with a device on a display apparatus include receiving, in a device, a help event created by a user engaging a help button installed on the device. In response to receiving the help event, typical embodiments include retrieving a help resource associated with the device, and creating, in the device, a help message including the help resource. The help resource can be retrieved from data storage on the device, downloaded from a network location, or any other way of retrieving the help resource that will occur those of skill in the art. The help message is typically broadcast to a display apparatus for display to a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Publication number: 20090089659Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; identifying a recording period within a presentation session; recording, during the recording period, a presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon the recorded presentation control instruction and in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Publication number: 20090063944Abstract: Session document for a presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element having an associated indication of interest from a user not participating in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to a user participant; and notifying the user not participating of the presentation of the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include recording for the user not participating the associated indication of interest in the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include notifying the user not participating of the identity of at least one user participant. Typical embodiments also include allowing the user not participating to participate in the presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel M. Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson