Patents by Inventor Richard W. Muirhead
Richard W. Muirhead 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: 9594587Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a plurality of device usage patterns in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a plurality of workflow scenarios in dependence upon the device usage patterns; determining a workflow administration capacity in dependence upon the plurality of workflow scenarios; identifying a plurality of workflows in dependence upon the workflow scenario; executing the plurality of workflows in dependence upon the workflow administration capacity.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington
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Patent number: 9218398Abstract: A data storage method and system. The method includes defining, by a computing system, a meta-object, a schema based structured definition for the meta-object, and a taxonomy with configuration data. The computing system creates content associated with the taxonomy and associates topics of the content with a logical storage room representations. Reference coordinates associated with the logical storage room representations are associated with the taxonomy. The computing system generates updated configuration data that includes the reference coordinates and a uniform resource identifier associated with the content is generated. The computing system generates an account associated with the meta-object for a user. Metering charges for usage of the account and a report associated with the account and usage are generated.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Daniel D. Carr, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Publication number: 20140324909Abstract: A data storage method and system. The method includes defining, by a computing system, a meta-object, a schema based structured definition for the meta-object, and a taxonomy with configuration data. The computing system creates content associated with the taxonomy and associates topics of the content with a logical storage room representations. Reference coordinates associated with the logical storage room representations are associated with the taxonomy. The computing system generates updated configuration data that includes the reference coordinates and a uniform resource identifier associated with the content is generated. The computing system generates an account associated with the meta-object for a user. Metering charges for usage of the account and a report associated with the account and usage are generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: William A. Brown, Daniel D. Carr, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 8862599Abstract: A data storage method and system. The method includes defining, by a computing system, a meta-object, a schema based structured definition for the meta-object, and a taxonomy with configuration data. The computing system creates content associated with the taxonomy and associates topics of the content with a logical storage room representations. Reference coordinates associated with the logical storage room representations are associated with the taxonomy. The computing system generates updated configuration data that includes the reference coordinates and a uniform resource identifier associated with the content is generated. The computing system generates an account associated with the meta-object for a user. Metering charges for usage of the account and a report associated with the account and usage are generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Daniel D. Carr, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Publication number: 20130332929Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a plurality of device usage patterns in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a plurality of workflow scenarios in dependence upon the device usage patterns; determining a workflow administration capacity in dependence upon the plurality of workflow scenarios; identifying a plurality of workflows in dependence upon the workflow scenario; executing the plurality of workflows in dependence upon the workflow administration capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington
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Publication number: 20130332494Abstract: A data storage method and system. The method includes defining, by a computing system, a meta-object, a schema based structured definition for the meta-object, and a taxonomy with configuration data. The computing system creates content associated with the taxonomy and associates topics of the content with a logical storage room representations. Reference coordinates associated with the logical storage room representations are associated with the taxonomy. The computing system generates updated configuration data that includes the reference coordinates and a uniform resource identifier associated with the content is generated. The computing system generates an account associated with the meta-object for a user. Metering charges for usage of the account and a report associated with the account and usage are generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Brown, Daniel D. Carr, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 8155119Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are provided for intermediate message invalidation that include receiving, to an intermediate message validation service, a message to be forwarded to a device to administer at least one value of an attribute of the device; determining, by the intermediate message validation service, that the message is invalid; and terminating, by the intermediate message validation service, the invalid message. Embodiments may also include notifying a system administrator that the message is invalid.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington
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Patent number: 8125485Abstract: Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 8102334Abstract: Augmenting reality for a user including creating a model of a region of the user's environment in a direction of the user's field of vision; determining, in dependence upon the model of the region of the user's environment, that an object located within the user's environment is invisible to the user; determining, in dependence upon the direction of the user's field of vision, the object's location, and the model of the region of the user's environment, a location to display a representation of the object on a transparent display in front of the user's field of vision; and displaying the representation of the object at the determined location on the transparent display in front of the user's field of vision.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: International Businesss Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Publication number: 20120013620Abstract: Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including preparing the avatar for display for display including: selecting images to represent the participant, selecting a generic animation template having a mouth, fitting the images with the generic animation template, and texture wrapping the one or more images representing the participant over the generic animation template; selecting background media; displaying images texture wrapped over the generic animation template with the background media; and animating the images including: receiving an audio speech signal, identifying a series of phonemes, and for each phoneme: identifying a next mouth position, altering the mouth position, texture wrapping a portion of the images corresponding to the altered mouth position, displaying the texture wrapped portion and playing, synchronously with the displayed texture wrapped portion, the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 8063905Abstract: Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 8010700Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow scenario; executing the workflow; identifying a user reaction to the execution of the workflow; identifying an unsuccessful device-controlling action in dependence upon the user reaction; and modifying the workflow in dependence upon the identified unsuccessful device-controlling action. Typical embodiment also include recording, as a representation of a negative user reaction, a determined change between the device attribute value set by executing the workflow and the current value of the device attribute in a user reaction log.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington
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Publication number: 20110131247Abstract: Semantic management of enterprise resources including identifying a plurality of disparate enterprise resources including physical resources of the enterprise and data resources of the enterprise, wherein the disparate enterprise resources are under the direction of a plurality of different management entities of the enterprise; creating for each enterprise resource a master metadata object representing the enterprise resource; wherein the structure of the each master metadata object is consistent for all the disparate enterprise resources and all management entities; wherein the master metadata object includes a plurality of predefined perspective fields, each perspective field containing a different predetermined aspects of the resources of the enterprise; assigning each master metadata object to one or more flexible reference structures; relating a plurality of master metadata objects with one or more other master metadata objects in dependence upon assigned flexible reference structures through predefinedType: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Publication number: 20100060647Abstract: Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 7657636Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow scenario; executing the workflow including: sending, to an intermediate message validation service, a message to be forwarded to a device to administer at least one value of an attribute of the device; determining, by the intermediate message validation service, that the message is valid; and forwarding, by the intermediate message validation service, the valid message to the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2005Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington
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Publication number: 20090128449Abstract: Augmenting reality for a user including creating a model of a region of the user's environment in a direction of the user's field of vision; determining, in dependence upon the model of the region of the user's environment, that an object located within the user's environment is invisible to the user; determining, in dependence upon the direction of the user's field of vision, the object's location, and the model of the region of the user's environment, a location to display a representation of the object on a transparent display in front of the user's field of vision; and displaying the representation of the object at the determined location on the transparent display in front of the user's field of vision.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe
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Publication number: 20090096796Abstract: Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William A. Brown, Richard W. Muirhead, Francis X. Reddington, Martin A. Wolfe