Patents by Inventor Ralf I. Pfeiffer

Ralf I. Pfeiffer 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: 20030055651
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided for dynamically extending element types for a voice-based extensible mark-up language (VoiceXML). Initially, a plurality of element types are registered with a VoiceXML interpreter. In use, such registered element types are received during use of the VoiceXML interpreter. In response to such receipt, code associated with the registered element types is accessed utilizing the VoiceXML interpreter. Such code extends the functionality of the VoiceXML.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Ralf I. Pfeiffer, Laura A. Werner
  • Patent number: 6112240
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for obtaining client information relating to a web page in a World Wide Web site utilizes a tracker tag in the code of the web page for initiating a client information tracking program. The tracking program may be on a client computer that is accessing the web page, or a tracking computer that is remote from the client computer. The tracking program is initiated by a tracker message transmitted from a web browser on the client computer to the tracking program when the tracker tag is read by the web browser. In one embodiment, the tracking program first obtains the client information, and then stores the client information in the memory of a computer having the tracking program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Alan Pogue, Laura Allison Werner, Ralf I. Pfeiffer, Pratima Gupta, Yong Zhang, James Andrew Clark