Patents by Inventor Pamela Nesbitt

Pamela Nesbitt 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).

  • Publication number: 20180013713
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying attribute information of at least a first wearable associated with an outfit of a user. Information about an event may be received. An electronic message may be sent about whether at least a portion of the outfit is recommended for wearing at the event based upon, at least in part, the attribute information of at least the first wearable and the information about the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Lydia M. Do, Jenny S. Li, Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Patent number: 9861894
    Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for personalizing a game executed by an electronic device is provided. The method may include collecting a plurality of user data. The method may also include determining at least one input/output option. The method may then include selecting a game template from a plurality of available game templates based on the collected plurality of user data and the determined at least one input/output option. The method may further include configuring the electronic game based on the selected game template, the collected plurality of user data, and the determined plurality of input/output options. The method may also include executing, by the electronic device, the configured electronic game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
  • Patent number: 9832161
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying attribute information of at least a first wearable associated with an outfit of a user. Information about an event may be received. An electronic message may be sent about whether at least a portion of the outfit is recommended for wearing at the event based upon, at least in part, the attribute information of at least the first wearable and the information about the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lydia M. Do, Jenny S. Li, Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Publication number: 20170333795
    Abstract: A method of video game skill level adjustment includes determining a first genre of a first video game played by a user, extracting single-player progress data of the user for the first video game, multi-player result data of the user for the first video game and meta-goal data of the user for the first video game from at least one storage device. A history profile is created of the user for the first genre including the single-player progress data for the first video game, the multi-player result data for the first video game, and the meta-goal data for the first video game. A second genre is determined of a second video game played by the user. A starting value of an in-game skill of the second video game is adjusted prior to the user playing the second video game, based on the history profile for the first genre.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER J. HARDEE, STEVE JOROFF, PAMELA A. NESBITT, SCOTT E. SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20170331855
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method of identifying an imposter web page. The method includes extracting, using a processor system, visited web page data from a visited web page. The method further includes determining, using the processor system, that the visited web page is an imposter web page, based at least in part on determining, using the processor system, that website location data of the visited web page does not match website location data of at least one legitimate web page, as well as determining that text data associated with image data of the visited web page matches text data associated with image data of the at least one legitimate web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20170272264
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to question and answer management in a collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include maintaining an instant messaging session between first and second participants, identifying questions and answers in the instant messaging text, matching each of the answers to a corresponding one of the questions, and displaying the matched questions and answers supplementally to the displaying of the chat transcript, ensuring that a participant does not overlook a question where response on their part is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Belinda Y. Chang, Shruti Gandhi, Angela Richards Jones, Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Patent number: 9718403
    Abstract: An approach is provided for selecting variable message signs (VMS). More particularly, this disclosure relates to personalized VMS delivered to a driver of a vehicle via an on-board display. The approach monitors driver behavior to form a driver behavior history and an analytic analysis is applied to the driver behavior history to determine characteristics of the driver. When a wireless notification is received from an external data provider, the notification is modified based on the determined driver characteristics, and the modified notification is displayed to the driver on a display device visible within the vehicle that is being operated by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vinod A. Bijlani, Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Patent number: 9715866
    Abstract: A method for displaying data in a graphical overlay. The method includes overlaying a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker
  • Patent number: 9697804
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for displaying data in a graphical overlay. The system overlays a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker
  • Patent number: 9697494
    Abstract: In a user-interactive method and system, a display application for enhancing user interaction over a network is provided. The method includes receiving preference information from a first user, the preference information indicating at least one type of image the first user wishes to view. In response to a network interaction being established between at least the first user and a second user, the method further includes retrieving a plurality of images associated with the second user based on the preference information. The method further includes displaying the plurality of images based on the preference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Belinda Y. Chang, Fuyi Li, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Lisa A. Seacat
  • Publication number: 20170187669
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying attribute information of at least a first wearable associated with an outfit of a user. Information about an event may be received. An electronic message may be sent about whether at least a portion of the outfit is recommended for wearing at the event based upon, at least in part, the attribute information of at least the first wearable and the information about the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Lydia M. Do, Jenny S. Li, Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Publication number: 20170177298
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for interacting with a processing system using an interactive menu and a non-verbal sound input are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include receiving a command to initiate the interactive menu. The method may further include presenting the interactive menu to a user of the processing system, the interactive menu comprising a plurality of interactive menu options. The method may further include performing an action on the processing system based on receiving a non-verbal sound input from the user responsive to at least one of the plurality of interactive menu options presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steve Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
  • Patent number: 9686087
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to question and answer management in a collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include maintaining an instant messaging session between first and second participants, identifying questions and answers in the instant messaging text, matching each of the answers to a corresponding one of the questions, and displaying the matched questions and answers supplementally to the displaying of the chat transcript, ensuring that a participant does not overlook a question where response on their part is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Belinda Y. Chang, Shruti Gandhi, Angela Richards Jones, Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Publication number: 20170171129
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for a seller to bypass a spam filter. An example method includes sending, by a message preempting apparatus, for receipt by a server corresponding to the seller, a transaction identifier in response to a transaction between a user and the seller. The method also includes sending, by the message preempting apparatus, for receipt by a messaging server, the transaction identifier, where the messaging server, in response, bypasses a spam filter for a message that is associated with the transaction identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steve Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20170132494
    Abstract: A computer detects one or more images, wherein detecting the one or more images further includes identifying one or more characteristics of at least a portion of the one or more images. The computer detects one or more user communications. The computer determines one or more appropriate images of the one or more images to be associated with the one or more user communications based on comparing information associated with the one or more user communications with the identified one or more characteristics of at least a portion of the one or more images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20170132176
    Abstract: A computer detects one or more images, wherein detecting the one or more images further includes identifying one or more characteristics of at least a portion of the one or more images. The computer detects one or more user communications. The computer determines one or more appropriate images of the one or more images to be associated with the one or more user communications based on comparing information associated with the one or more user communications with the identified one or more characteristics of at least a portion of the one or more images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20170118158
    Abstract: Notifying a user about a previous conversation includes based on an analysis of the previous conversation between a first user and second user determining a characterization between the first user and the second user, in response to the first user selecting, via a user device, an option to open a subsequent conversation with the second user, notifying the first user via an alert as to the characterization of the previous conversation that the first user had with the second user before reengaging the second user in a subsequent conversation, and based on an analysis of the subsequent conversation between the first user and the second user, updating the characterization to a current characterization in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Patent number: 9631356
    Abstract: A monitoring and alert methodology ascertains conditions that may result in a combined sewer overflow (CSO) event. The method employs a semantic model of a combined sewer system that includes specification information describing the components of the combined sewer system. Sensors distributed throughout the components of the combined sewer system sense operating parameter information for those components. A monitoring and alerting (MA) information handling system (IHS) receives operating parameter information from the sensors. The MA IHS analyzes the operating parameter information received from the sensors together with the specification information in the semantic model of the combined sewer system to determine if a combined sewer overflow (CSO) event is possible. The MA IHS generates an alert to provide notification of a possible CSO event if the MA IHS determines that a CSO event is possible. In this manner, an operator may take early corrective action before a CSO event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Pamela A Nesbitt, Jake Palmer, Donnie Smith, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20170111303
    Abstract: Notifying a user about a previous conversation includes based on an analysis of the previous conversation between a first user and second user determining a characterization between the first user and the second user, in response to the first user selecting, via a user device, an option to open a subsequent conversation with the second user, notifying the first user via an alert as to the characterization of the previous conversation that the first user had with the second user before reengaging the second user in a subsequent conversation, and based on an analysis of the subsequent conversation between the first user and the second user, updating the characterization to a current characterization in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Pamela A. Nesbitt
  • Publication number: 20170087469
    Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for personalizing a game executed by an electronic device is provided. The method may include collecting a plurality of user data. The method may also include determining at least one input/output option. The method may then include selecting a game template from a plurality of available game templates based on the collected plurality of user data and the determined at least one input/output option. The method may further include configuring the electronic game based on the selected game template, the collected plurality of user data, and the determined plurality of input/output options. The method may also include executing, by the electronic device, the configured electronic game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider