Patents by Inventor Michael Pelts

Michael Pelts 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: 10454932
    Abstract: A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Eitan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 10216958
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts, Vladislav P. Rybak, Ora Shapiro
  • Patent number: 10169599
    Abstract: A method for presenting data, the method including presenting via a first computer output device an indicator indicating a data item whose value is prevented, in accordance with predefined access control criteria, from being presented via the first computer output device, receiving from a requestor a request to present the data item value, maintaining a record of an identity of the requestor together with a description of the requested data item, and presenting via a second computer output device the data item value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 9948650
    Abstract: A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Eitan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9904798
    Abstract: Personal information is retrieved from at least one data source and personal information associated with a first individual is identified. A document is generated that is a version of a first document, wherein the personal information associated with the first individual cannot be discerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 9892278
    Abstract: Personal information is retrieved from at least one data source and personal information associated with a first individual is identified. A document is generated that is a version of a first document, wherein the personal information associated with the first individual cannot be discerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 9886159
    Abstract: Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Vladislav Pavel Rybak
  • Patent number: 9600134
    Abstract: Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Vladislav Rybak
  • Publication number: 20160028732
    Abstract: A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Eitan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9224007
    Abstract: A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Eitan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9195853
    Abstract: Document redaction includes identifying within a computer-based document stored on computer-readable storage medium, a candidate redaction element that is of a predefined redaction element type, identifying an evaluation element that is of a predefined evaluation element type and that is associated with the candidate redaction element, identifying a predefined logic expression that is associated with the redaction element type and that operates on the evaluation element type, evaluating the logic expression which generates a value, identifying a predefined permission expression that is associated with the logic expression, that operates on the value, and that is associated with a recipient role, evaluating the permission expression, which identifies a redaction directive, and applying the redaction directive to the candidate redaction element within the computer-based document prior to the computer-based document being provided to a recipient having the recipient role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Josemina Marcella Magdalen, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 9158836
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas V. Chitiveli, Joshua Fox, Josemina M. Magdalen, Michael Pelts
  • Publication number: 20150220758
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Shlomit AVRAHAMI, Joshua FOX, Yuri KOSHAROVSKY, Michael PELTS, Vladislav P. RYBAK, Ora SHAPIRO
  • Patent number: 9069843
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas V. Chitiveli, Joshua Fox, Josemina M. Magdalen, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 9043929
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts, Vladislav P. Rybak, Ora Shapiro
  • Patent number: 8959654
    Abstract: A document review and security technique is provided that presents a first portion of a document to a first reviewer, wherein the first portion includes less than the entire document, presents a second portion of the document to a second reviewer, wherein the second portion includes less than the entire document, wherein the second portion is at least partially different from the first portion, and wherein the first reviewer and the second reviewer are different reviewers, receives from the first reviewer a review action input associated with the first portion, receives from the second reviewer a review action input associated with the second portion, and determines a disposition of the document in accordance with the review action inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts, Vladislav P. Rybak, Ora Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20140317758
    Abstract: Personal information is retrieved from at least one data source and personal information associated with a first individual is identified. A document is generated that is a version of a first document, wherein the personal information associated with the first individual cannot be discerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 8843886
    Abstract: Code review is performed by initiating a source code editing session associated with a first user, where the source code editing session is controlled by a computer-based source code editing tool that is configured to accept changes to source code of a computer-based software application during the source code editing session, displaying on a computer display, in the context of the source code editing session, a source code portion of the computer-based software application, and displaying on the computer display, in the context of the source code editing session, a visual indicator that is associated with the source code portion, and that indicates that the source code portion was added or modified by a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts
  • Publication number: 20140136941
    Abstract: Personal information is retrieved from at least one data source and personal information associated with a first individual is identified. A document is generated that is a version of a first document, wherein the personal information associated with the first individual cannot be discerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shlomit Avrahami, Joshua Fox, Yuri Kosharovsky, Michael Pelts
  • Patent number: 8627279
    Abstract: Code review is performed by initiating a source code editing session associated with a first user, where the source code editing session is controlled by a computer-based source code editing tool that is configured to accept changes to source code of a computer-based software application during the source code editing session, displaying on a computer display, in the context of the source code editing session, a source code portion of the computer-based software application, and displaying on the computer display, in the context of the source code editing session, a visual indicator that is associated with the source code portion, and that indicates that the source code portion was added or modified by a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts