Patents by Inventor Scott A. Will

Scott A. Will 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: 11048859
    Abstract: Transforming a website for dynamic web content management includes identifying aspects of a static website that are to be under dynamic web content management, organizing the aspects of the static website in preparation for storing the aspects, and storing the aspects of the static website with a specific identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dana L. Price, Craig M. Tognarina, Michael E. Vince, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10809883
    Abstract: A collaborative computing device group operative under a shared multiple discrete desktop user interface is established from a first desktop of a first computing device and a different discrete desktop of a second computing device physically located in user visual proximity to the first computing device. A color-coded graphical representation of a user-interface control port that allows authorized cursor navigation to and from the second computing device is displayed on the first desktop oriented in a respective direction of the second computing device. A cursor of the second computing device is authorized to migrate, under control of a user of the second computing device, from the different discrete desktop through the color-coded graphical representation of the user-interface control port of the second computing device to the first desktop and the first computing device is controlled in accordance with visual navigation and control of the cursor of the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter F. Haggar, Jacqueline G. Rojanatavorn, Steven K. Speicher, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10777200
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for mitigating the effects of long term cognitive conditions on patient interactions by providing artificial intelligence mechanisms to assist with such interactions. The mechanisms perform a machine learning operation to learn, for a particular patient, associations between patient indicators and concepts that the patient is attempting to communicate or concepts representing actions that the patient would like to perform within a patient environment. The mechanisms receive, from a monitoring device in a patient environment, a patient input representing an attempt by the patient to communicate a concept or interact with the patient environment. The mechanisms perform a cognitive translation of one or more patient indicators in the patient input to one or more corresponding concepts based on results of the machine learning operation. The mechanisms then generate a translation output specifying the one or more corresponding concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott A. Will, Quang T. N. Duong, David L. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10649608
    Abstract: A non-interactive screen sharing session executing within a computing device can be identified. The device can be communicatively linked to different computing devices of the screen sharing session. The contents of the remote screen buffer can be analyzed to determine a graphical representation of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) within the contents prior to presenting the contents of the buffer within the device. A visible information item can be extracted and a non-visible reference can be established from the representation. An area surrounding the representation including a position and dimensions of the representation within the contents can be determined. The representation of the URL can be replaced with an interactive element in real-time. The element can include the visible and non-visible reference. The contents of the buffer can be presented within an interface associated with the session of the device, responsive to the replacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10606935
    Abstract: Transforming a website for dynamic web content management includes identifying aspects of a static website that are to be under dynamic web content management, organizing the aspects of the static website in preparation for storing the aspects, and storing the aspects of the static website with a specific identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dana L. Price, Craig M. Tognarina, Michael E. Vince, Scott A. Will
  • Publication number: 20200035240
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for mitigating the effects of long term cognitive conditions on patient interactions by providing artificial intelligence mechanisms to assist with such interactions. The mechanisms perform a machine learning operation to learn, for a particular patient, associations between patient indicators and concepts that the patient is attempting to communicate or concepts representing actions that the patient would like to perform within a patient environment. The mechanisms receive, from a monitoring device in a patient environment, a patient input representing an attempt by the patient to communicate a concept or interact with the patient environment. The mechanisms perform a cognitive translation of one or more patient indicators in the patient input to one or more corresponding concepts based on results of the machine learning operation. The mechanisms then generate a translation output specifying the one or more corresponding concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Scott A. Will, Quang T.N. Duong, David L. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10127307
    Abstract: A method and system for searching alternative data sources include monitoring a first communications source broadcasting unstructured data, and a second communications source broadcasting structured data. The method further includes generating text from the unstructured data and from the structured data collected, and parsing the generated text. The method also includes defining a search phrase, and analyzing the generated or parsed text for semantically relevant text in relation to the search phrase. The method also includes selecting the semantically relevant text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10127306
    Abstract: A method and system for searching alternative data sources include monitoring a first communications source broadcasting unstructured data, and a second communications source broadcasting structured data. The method further includes generating text from the unstructured data and from the structured data collected, and parsing the generated text. The method also includes defining a search phrase, and analyzing the generated or parsed text for semantically relevant text in relation to the search phrase. The method also includes selecting the semantically relevant text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10089284
    Abstract: Transforming a website for dynamic web content management includes identifying aspects of a static website that are to be under dynamic web content management, organizing the aspects of the static website in preparation for storing the aspects, and storing the aspects of the static website with a specific identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dana L. Price, Craig M. Tognarina, Michael E. Vince, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10031838
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for building an environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to allocate resources and build an environment such that the environment is built when a user is prepared to test one or more portions of code in the environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to reduce the “lag time” developers experience between waiting for the code to be built and for resources to be provisioned, and can also provide a less costly alternative to maintaining and operating dedicated environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Collier, David L. Leigh, Yi-Hsiu Wei, Scott A. Will
  • Publication number: 20180196789
    Abstract: Transforming a website for dynamic web content management includes identifying aspects of a static website that are to be under dynamic web content management, organizing the aspects of the static website in preparation for storing the aspects, and storing the aspects of the static website with a specific identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Dana L. Price, Craig M. Tognarina, Michael E. Vince, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 10014681
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an emergency electrical distribution system detects an environmental alert invoked by an environmental sensor located in a particular location of building structure. The emergency electrical distribution system selects specific electrical source connections in proximity to the environmental sensor and, in turn, terminates electrical power to selected specific electrical source connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 9952964
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for building an environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to allocate resources and build an environment such that the environment is built when a user is prepared to test one or more portions of code in the environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to reduce the “lag time” developers experience between waiting for the code to be built and for resources to be provisioned, and can also provide a less costly alternative to maintaining and operating dedicated environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Collier, David L. Leigh, Yi-Hsiu Wei, Scott A. Will
  • Publication number: 20180095623
    Abstract: A collaborative computing device group operative under a shared multiple discrete desktop user interface is established from a first desktop of a first computing device and a different discrete desktop of a second computing device physically located in user visual proximity to the first computing device. A color-coded graphical representation of a user-interface control port that allows authorized cursor navigation to and from the second computing device is displayed on the first desktop oriented in a respective direction of the second computing device. A cursor of the second computing device is authorized to migrate, under control of a user of the second computing device, from the different discrete desktop through the color-coded graphical representation of the user-interface control port of the second computing device to the first desktop and the first computing device is controlled in accordance with visual navigation and control of the cursor of the second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Peter F. Haggar, Jacqueline G. Rojanatavorn, Steven K. Speicher, Scott A. Will
  • Publication number: 20180018532
    Abstract: A non-interactive screen sharing session executing within a computing device can be identified. The device can be communicatively linked to different computing devices of the screen sharing session. The contents of the remote screen buffer can be analyzed to determine a graphical representation of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) within the contents prior to presenting the contents of the buffer within the device. A visible information item can be extracted and a non-visible reference can be established from the representation. An area surrounding the representation including a position and dimensions of the representation within the contents can be determined. The representation of the URL can be replaced with an interactive element in real-time. The element can include the visible and non-visible reference. The contents of the buffer can be presented within an interface associated with the session of the device, responsive to the replacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 9870127
    Abstract: A collaborative computing device group operative under a shared multiple discrete desktop user interface is established from a first desktop of a first computing device and a different discrete desktop of a second computing device physically located in user visual proximity to the first computing device. A color-coded graphical representation of a user-interface control port that allows authorized cursor navigation to and from the second computing device is displayed on the first desktop oriented in a respective direction of the second computing device. A cursor of the second computing device is authorized to migrate, under control of a user of the second computing device, from the different discrete desktop through the color-coded graphical representation of the user-interface control port of the second computing device to the first desktop and the first computing device is controlled in accordance with visual navigation and control of the cursor of the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter F. Haggar, Jacqueline G. Rojanatavorn, Steven K. Speicher, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 9811241
    Abstract: A collaborative computing device group operative under a shared multiple discrete desktop user interface is established from a first desktop of a first computing device and a different discrete desktop of a second computing device physically located in user visual proximity to the first computing device. A color-coded graphical representation of a user-interface control port that allows authorized cursor navigation to and from the second computing device is displayed on the first desktop oriented in a respective direction of the second computing device. A cursor of the second computing device is authorized to migrate, under control of a user of the second computing device, from the different discrete desktop through the color-coded graphical representation of the user-interface control port of the second computing device to the first desktop and the first computing device is controlled in accordance with visual navigation and control of the cursor of the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter F. Haggar, Jacqueline G. Rojanatavorn, Steven K. Speicher, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 9798944
    Abstract: A non-interactive screen sharing session executing within a computing device can be identified. The device can be communicatively linked to different computing devices of the screen sharing session. The contents of the remote screen buffer can be analyzed to determine a graphical representation of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) within the contents prior to presenting the contents of the buffer within the device. A visible information item can be extracted and a non-visible reference can be established from the representation. An area surrounding the representation including a position and dimensions of the representation within the contents can be determined. The representation of the URL can be replaced with an interactive element in real-time. The element can include the visible and non-visible reference. The contents of the buffer can be presented within an interface associated with the session of the device, responsive to the replacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Patent number: 9785853
    Abstract: A non-interactive screen sharing session executing within a computing device can be identified. The device can be communicatively linked to different computing devices of the screen sharing session. The contents of the remote screen buffer can be analyzed to determine a graphical representation of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) within the contents prior to presenting the contents of the buffer within the device. A visible information item can be extracted and a non-visible reference can be established from the representation. An area surrounding the representation including a position and dimensions of the representation within the contents can be determined. The representation of the URL can be replaced with an interactive element in real-time. The element can include the visible and non-visible reference. The contents of the buffer can be presented within an interface associated with the session of the device, responsive to the replacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quang T. Duong, David M. Gordon, David L. Schmidt, Scott A. Will
  • Publication number: 20170255455
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, usage of an application by a user; detecting, by the computing device, satisfaction of a customization rule based on the monitored usage of the application; and customizing, by the computing device, the application based on the detecting. The customizing may include at least one of: adding a feature to a menu of the application, and adding at least one of a file and link associated with the added feature; and removing a feature from the menu of the application, and removing at least one of a file and a link associated with the removed feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Jason A. Collier, David L. Leigh, Yi-Hsiu Wei, Scott A. Will, Xianjun Zhu