Patents by Inventor Richard Postlethwaite
Richard Postlethwaite 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: 9571992Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20160360638Abstract: A safety apparatus for an electrical equipment rack includes a retractable safety device for preventing, when in an operational position, the extending of an extendable rail and an electrical equipment unit mounted thereon from a position internal to the rack to a position external to the rack, and for allowing the same when in a non-operational position. The position of the retractable safety device is linked to the position of a retractable rack support such that when the retractable rack support is lowered in its operative position the retractable safety device is in a non-operational position, and when it is raised in a raised inoperative position the retractable safety device is in an operational position preventing the extending of the extendable rail and an electrical equipment unit mounted thereon to a position external to the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Patent number: 9516522Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20160306612Abstract: The method of tracking errors and warnings of a revision of source code includes a computer processor that receives a first and second revision of source code. The computer processor determines a first set of errors and warnings included in the first revision of the source code and a second set of errors and warnings included in the second revision of the source code. The computer processor identifies a third set of errors and warnings that appear in the first revision of the source code, and absent in the second revision of the source code, and the computer processor identifies a fourth set of errors and warnings that are absent in the first revision of the source code and that appear in the second revision of the source code.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20160306627Abstract: The method of tracking errors and warnings of a revision of source code includes a computer processor that receives a first and second revision of source code. The computer processor determines a first set of errors and warnings included in the first revision of the source code and a second set of errors and warnings included in the second revision of the source code. The computer processor identifies a third set of errors and warnings that appear in the first revision of the source code, and absent in the second revision of the source code, and the computer processor identifies a fourth set of errors and warnings that are absent in the first revision of the source code and that appear in the second revision of the source code.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Patent number: 9456081Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Patent number: 9443082Abstract: Improving the integrity of a computer system including a plurality of user accounts by, for each user account, monitoring events on the computer system that are related to the user account, assigning an importance score to the monitored user account that is indicative of the importance of the monitored user account to the integrity of the computer system, the importance score being calculated from the monitored events, and providing the importance score to a system administrator upon the administrator attempting to alter the monitored user account.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard S. Garraway, Martin J. Hitchman, Richard Postlethwaite, Mark R. Wilson
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Publication number: 20160186459Abstract: A key for operating a mechanical lock, which key includes a head portion for holding by a user, a lock-engaging portion for inserting into the lock for operating the lock by the application of a turning force, and a joining portion between the head portion and the lock-engaging portion and fixing the head portion to the lock-engaging portion. The joining portion includes a shape memory material, which reversibly deforms without breakage when a first turning force on the key is exceeded, where the first turning force is lower than a second turning force. The second turning force being a turning force which if exceeded causes breakage of the lock-engaging portion or the head portion. The shape memory material may exhibit a superelastic effect in which the shape is restored when the turning force ceases, or shape memory effect in which the shape is restored on heating above a state-transition temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Abdul BAKI, Colin J. HOLYOAKE, Matthew J. KOCKOTT, John A. OWEN, Richard POSTLETHWAITE, Joanne E. WOODS
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Patent number: 9338675Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for priority message management. In one embodiment, users are associated with one or more identified networks, wherein the users connect to the one or more identified networks using one or more mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention can detect the presence or absence of an associated user, and responsive to detecting a user's absence, can increase an amount of priority of a user's communications to a mobile device of a different user having an enabled screening feature. Increasing the amount of priority of users that have been identified as absent from the identified network can ensure important messages are delivered.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Hewitt, Colin I. Holyoake, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20150370880Abstract: For browsing items on the worldwide web, operations are performed, including: searching for items to browse at a first website; recording attributes of each item browsed at the first website; searching for items to browse at a second website; comparing attributes of items identified during the searching of the second website with the recorded attributes of items browsed at the first website; in the event of a match between attributes of an item identified during the searching of the second website and the recorded attributes of an item browsed at the first website, indicating that the item identified at the second website is the same as the item browsed at the first website; and displaying an indication to the user that the item identified at the second website is the same as the item browsed at the first website.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: James Hewitt, Richard Postlethwaite, Caroline J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20150040219Abstract: Improving the integrity of a computer system including a plurality of user accounts by, for each user account, monitoring events on the computer system that are related to the user account, assigning an importance score to the monitored user account that is indicative of the importance of the monitored user account to the integrity of the computer system, the importance score being calculated from the monitored events, and providing the importance score to a system administrator upon the administrator attempting to alter the monitored user account.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Richard S. Garraway, Martin J. Hitchman, Richard Postlethwaite, Mark R. Wilson
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Publication number: 20140095680Abstract: A method, system and program product for optimizing of the provisioning of systems. The method, system, computer program product for provisioning a system comprises steps of intercepting a request to provision a named system; calculating a number of named systems needed to give an overall provisioning success rate higher than a threshold success rate; and requesting parallel provisioning of the calculated number of named systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stewart Addison, David A. Barnes, Edwin P.J. Moffatt, Richard Postlethwaite