Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Gibbons

Stephen A. Gibbons 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: 11196750
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user account to access a base table via a smart table view. The base table includes sensitive columns and non-sensitive columns. Each record in the base table is associated with a respective protection key of a plurality of protection keys. Each protection key represents protection types of a plurality of protection types of sensitive data. The user account is associated with a user protection key. The user protection key represents at least one protection type for which the user account is authorized. The smart table view of the base table is dynamically generated by joining the base table and a custom mask table including a subset of the plurality of protection keys. The smart table view masks the non-sensitive columns of the base table in records of the base table having sensitive data the user account is not authorized to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Stephen A. Gibbons
  • Publication number: 20210021603
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user account to access a base table via a smart table view. The base table includes sensitive columns and non-sensitive columns. Each record in the base table is associated with a respective protection key of a plurality of protection keys. Each protection key represents protection types of a plurality of protection types of sensitive data. The user account is associated with a user protection key. The user protection key represents at least one protection type for which the user account is authorized. The smart table view of the base table is dynamically generated by joining the base table and a custom mask table including a subset of the plurality of protection keys. The smart table view masks the non-sensitive columns of the base table in records of the base table having sensitive data the user account is not authorized to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen A. Gibbons
  • Patent number: 7508456
    Abstract: A remote control system for adjusting a volume level of a television is provided. The remote control system includes a handheld remote control device having a partial mute switch, a wireless signal transmitter, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is operably coupled to the partial mute switch and to the wireless signal transmitter. The microprocessor is configured to induce the wireless signal transmitter to transmit a first wireless signal having an engage partial mute command to the television when the partial mute switch is depressed at a first time. The television is configured to receive the first wireless signal and to adjust the volume level of the television to a volume level in a range of 10-90% of a current volume level of the television in response to the engage partial mute command in the first wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen A. Gibbons