Patents by Inventor Raymond Byars Jennings
Raymond Byars Jennings 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).
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Patent number: 9152949Abstract: Methods and apparatus of classifying received email are provided. At least one initial desirability scan is performed on a received email. When the received email passes the at least one initial desirability scan, it is determined if the received email comprises one or more browser-interpretable scripts. When the received email comprises one or more browser-interpretable scripts, a secondary desirability scan is performed on the received email as a function of the one or more browser-interpretable scripts. The received email is identified as undesirable email when the received email fails the at least one initial desirability scan, or the received email fails the secondary desirability scan. The received e-mail is identified as desirable email when the received email does not comprise one or more browser-interpretable scripts or the received email passes the secondary desirability scan.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Alson George, Raymond Byars Jennings, III
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Patent number: 7814167Abstract: A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant such that active instant messages are received by the second instant message session.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Alson George, Raymond Byars Jennings, III
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Publication number: 20080307064Abstract: A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant such that active instant messages are received by the second instant message session.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: David Alson George, Raymond Byars Jennings, III
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Publication number: 20080228890Abstract: A system and method for sending activated instant messages includes determining a condition under which an activated instant message is permissible and determining if the condition is met. If the condition is met, the activated instant message is sent such that the activated instant message causes a receiver device of the activated instant message to automatically perform an instruction sent by the sender.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: David Alson George, Raymond Byars Jennings III
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Publication number: 20070271343Abstract: Methods and apparatus of classifying received email are provided. At least one initial desirability scan is performed on a received email. When the received email passes the at least one initial desirability scan, it is determined if the received email comprises one or more browser-interpretable scripts. When the received email comprises one or more browser-interpretable scripts, a secondary desirability scan is performed on the received email as a function of the one or more browser-interpretable scripts. The received email is identified as undesirable email when the received email fails the at least one initial desirability scan, or the received email fails the secondary desirability scan. The received e-mail is identified as desirable email when the received email does not comprise one or more browser-interpretable scripts or the received email passes the secondary desirability scan.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Alson George, Raymond Byars Jennings
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Patent number: 6829709Abstract: This invention provides methods and apparatus for validating that transformations that are expected to occur in an IP network are indeed occurring as expected. Generally, these transformations establish logical communication tunnels within an IP network between the devices that perform the transformation and the devices that perform the reverse transformation. The invention is useful to validate the configuration of devices that support a variety of IP transformation methods, including IP-security protocols using the standard Encrypted Secure Payload protocol and Authenticated Header protocols as defined by the IETF. The invention is particularly useful to validate cases in which transformations occur on the full path of a packet traversing between two machines in an IP network, or when the transformations only occur on part of this path.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2000Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arup Acharya, Mandis Beigi, Raymond Byars Jennings, III, Reiner Sailer, Dinesh Chandra Verma
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Patent number: 6772225Abstract: A policy enabled caching system based upon policy rules which define whether a request from a client is directed to a cache or a server. The client is coupled to a plurality of caches and to at least one server. The caches may store a subset of the data stored on the server. The policy enabled caching system stores policy rules which comprise at least one matching condition, where every request containing a matching condition falls into an associated class. Each class will have an associated routing rule, where a routing rule defines the type of routing for all the requests which fall into that class. The policy enabled caching system will receive the request from the client and classify the request according to the policy rules. The request is then routed according to the routing rule associated with the class to which the request belongs.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Raymond Byars Jennings, III, Dinesh Chandra Verma, Philip Shi-Lung Yu
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Patent number: 6760763Abstract: This invention provides methods and apparatus which provide a solution to the problem of server load balancing. Log files are collected from each server within a server cluster. The log files are analysed by the monitoring process to find file relations. The analysis uses a window to search for requests such that a file relation is established. Other techniques are described to establish file relations. Based on file relations files are merged into groups such that these groups of files can be distributed to N servers within a server cluster. The file merging process continues until there are N groups corresponding to the N servers. The files for each group are either distributed to each server, or all files are distributed to all servers and each server activates only the subset which comprises the group of files for that server.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Raymond Byars Jennings, III, Dinesh Chandra Verma
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Publication number: 20030220998Abstract: This invention provides methods and apparatus which provide a solution to the problem of server load balancing. Log files are collected from each server within a server cluster. The log files are analysed by the monitoring process to find file relations. The analysis uses a window to search for requests such that a file relation is established. Other techniques are described to establish file relations. Based on file relations files are merged into groups such that these groups of files can be distributed to N servers within a server cluster. The file merging process continues until there are N groups corresponding to the N servers. The files for each group are either distributed to each server, or all files are distributed to all servers and each server activates only the subset which comprises the group of files for that server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 1999Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventors: RAYMOND BYARS JENNINGS, DINESH CHANDRA VERMA
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Patent number: 6363056Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture and computer product for low-overhead continuous monitoring of network performance in an intranet or Internet topology. Probe packets are sent from ingress access routers where they are received and processed by egress access routers. Probe packets are generated by copying every Nth packet being sent by an ingress access router. In the event an access router does not receive the probe packet, the probe packet is discarded through normal network delivery mechanisms. Network delay is determined by subtracting the time that a probe packet was received with the time stamp enclosed in the probe packet. Round trip time is established by reflecting the probe packet back to the originating access router and computing the round trip time. Bandwidth monitoring is achieved by using the number of probe packets received to estimate the expected amount of network traffic to be received.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1998Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mandis Sadr Mohammad Beigi, Raymond Byars Jennings, Dinesh Chandra Verma