Patents by Inventor Pierre G. Bernard

Pierre G. Bernard 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: 7698421
    Abstract: The system comprises an improved document monitoring agent in which user evaluations are used to decide whether a changed document should be saved in the system or not. The evaluation of importance of the change in a document is performed by one or more users who collaboratively monitor a networked document, typically identified by a URL. By providing a user evaluation interface, it is possible for users to indicate their evaluation of the significance of the change. As such, only significantly changed documents, as indicated by the users themselves, are saved. Thus, a more efficient saving is obtained while at the same time reducing the risk of discarding potentially interesting changed documents which would have been discarded by conventional monitoring agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre G. Bernard, Natalie S. Glance, Jean-Luc Meunier
  • Patent number: 7174377
    Abstract: The system comprises an improved document monitoring agent in which user evaluations are used to decide whether a changed document should be saved in the system or not. The evaluation of importance of the change in a document is performed by one or more users who collaboratively monitor a networked document, typically identified by a URL. By providing a user evaluation interface, it is possible for users to indicate their evaluation of the significance of the change. As such, only significantly changed documents, as indicated by the users themselves, are saved. Thus, a more efficient saving is obtained while at the same time reducing the risk of discarding potentially interesting changed documents which would have been discarded by conventional monitoring agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre G. Bernard, Natalie S. Glance, Jean-Luc Meunier
  • Publication number: 20030135607
    Abstract: The system comprises an improved document monitoring agent in which user evaluations are used to decide whether a changed document should be saved in the system or not. The evaluation of importance of the change in a document is performed by one or more users who collaboratively monitor a networked document, typically identified by a URL. By providing a user evaluation interface, it is possible for users to indicate their evaluation of the significance of the change. As such, only significantly changed documents, as indicated by the users themselves, are saved. Thus, a more efficient saving is obtained while at the same time reducing the risk of discarding potentially interesting changed documents which would have been discarded by conventional monitoring agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pierre G. Bernard, Natalie S. Glance, Jean-Luc Meunier