Patents by Inventor Niall Jude Lucey

Niall Jude Lucey 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).

  • Propagation of changes in a network
    Patent number: 8400957
    Abstract: A network of nodes and connections is provided, each connection connecting two nodes. A method of operating a first node in the network includes detecting a change in a node connected to the first node, identifying that the number of nodes connected to the first node with the detected change is above a predetermined threshold, and executing the detected change at the first node and/or propagating the detected change to one or more nodes connected to the first node that do not have the detected change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Basil French, Mark Jonathan Lucas, Niall Jude Lucey
  • Propagation of changes in a network
    Patent number: 8385253
    Abstract: A network of nodes and connections is provided, each connection connecting two nodes. Operating a first node in the network includes detecting a change in a node connected to the first node, identifying that the number of nodes connected to the first node with the detected change is above a predetermined threshold, and executing the detected change at the first node and/or propagating the detected change to one or more nodes connected to the first node that do not have the detected change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Basil French, Mark Jonathan Lucas, Niall Jude Lucey
  • Human emotion metrics for navigation plans and maps
    Patent number: 8364395
    Abstract: An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. French, Eric Thiebaut-George, Niall Jude Lucey, Edith Helen Stern, Michael Truss
  • Human emotion metrics for navigation plans and maps
    Patent number: 8352179
    Abstract: An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. French, Eric Thiebaut-George, Niall Jude Lucey, Edith Helen Stern, Michael Truss
  • PROPAGATION OF CHANGES IN A NETWORK
    Publication number: 20120178430
    Abstract: A network of nodes and connections is provided, each connection connecting two nodes. A method of operating a first node in the network includes detecting a change in a node connected to the first node, identifying that the number of nodes connected to the first node with the detected change is above a predetermined threshold, and executing the detected change at the first node and/or propagating the detected change to one or more nodes connected to the first node that do not have the detected change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Basil French, Mark Jonathan Lucas, Niall Jude Lucey
  • PROPAGATION OF CHANGES IN A NETWORK
    Publication number: 20110096714
    Abstract: A network of nodes and connections is provided, each connection connecting two nodes. A method of operating a first node in the network includes detecting a change in a node connected to the first node, identifying that the number of nodes connected to the first node with the detected change is above a predetermined threshold, and executing the detected change at the first node and/or propagating the detected change to one or more nodes connected to the first node that do not have the detected change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Basil French, Mark Jonathan Lucas, Niall Jude Lucey