Patents by Inventor Rodney E. Shepard, II

Rodney E. Shepard, II 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: 10133873
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the deficiencies of the art in respect to data security control and provides a method, system and computer program product for securing confidential data through transient on-demand data security control. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of securing confidential data can be provided. The method can include decrypting confidential data in a document, determining a subset of the confidential data specified by an author of the document, rendering a view of the confidential data including the subset, and, in response to detecting when an authorized viewer of the document no longer views the document, concealing the subset of the confidential data while maintaining a view of the confidential data not included in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II
  • Patent number: 8266230
    Abstract: A computer program product prevents the delivery of undesired e-mail message. A remove request is received from a non-desiring client. The remove request identifies a first subject line or a first body text from a previous e-mail message. An active request is updated with the remove request. Responsive to updating the active requests, the non-desiring client is redacted from a previously received message within a message file. The previously received message includes a second subject line that matches the first subject line, or a second body text that matches the first body text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II
  • Patent number: 7788442
    Abstract: A system on a computer for providing access to data stored on the computer in either power state is provided. The system can include a memory module and an external data interface connector. The system can further include a data interface controller for managing a data interface to the memory module and a data interface to the external data interface connector. The system can further include a multiplexer conductively connecting the data interface controller with the memory module when the computer is powered on, the multiplexer conductively disconnecting the data interface controller from the memory module when the computer is powered off and the multiplexer conductively connecting the external data interface connector with the memory module when the computer is powered on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Randolph S. Kolvick, Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II
  • Publication number: 20100079676
    Abstract: Providing multiple interleaved views for multiple viewers who are using a single display. The display may be, for example, the display of a computing device such as a laptop computer. Alternatively, the display may be the display of a television, gaming device, a projection screen, and so forth. Shutter glasses are synchronized to a display that interleaves frames from multiple different streams, enabling the wearer to perceive the frames of a single one of the multiple streams. In one aspect, inverse frames are applied to public frames and the result is interleaved with positive frames, such that a viewer not wearing shutter glasses perceives only the public frames. In another aspect, frames from multiple private streams are interleaved without use of public frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Douglas A. Law, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II
  • Publication number: 20100077317
    Abstract: Collaboration support for collaboration among groups of people is provided by leveraging e-mail messaging. Content for collaboration messages is created, and is embedded within e-mail messages and sent to recipients (such as member of a collaboration team, managers who are identified for receiving notification of collaborations, and so forth). A template-driven approach may be used for creating the collaboration content. A unique identifier is associated with a particular collaboration and is included in each message pertaining to that collaboration, enabling those related messages to be correlated or aggregated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II
  • Publication number: 20090119445
    Abstract: A system on a computer for providing access to data stored on the computer in either power state is provided. The system can include a memory module and an external data interface connector. The system can further include a data interface controller for managing a data interface to the memory module and a data interface to the external data interface connector. The system can further include a multiplexer conductively connecting the data interface controller with the memory module when the computer is powered on, the multiplexer conductively disconnecting the data interface controller from the memory module when the computer is powered off and the multiplexer conductively connecting the external data interface connector with the memory module when the computer is powered on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randolph S. Kolvick, Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II
  • Publication number: 20090070594
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the deficiencies of the art in respect to data security control and provides a method, system and computer program product for securing confidential data through transient on-demand data security control. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of securing confidential data can be provided. The method can include decrypting confidential data in a document, determining a subset of the confidential data specified by an author of the document, rendering a view of the confidential data including the subset, and, in response to detecting when an authorized viewer of the document no longer views the document, concealing the subset of the confidential data while maintaining a view of the confidential data not included in the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Rodney E. Shepard, II