Patents by Inventor STEPHEN J. LEA

STEPHEN J. LEA 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: 10990930
    Abstract: Computerized devices search each of a group of different calendars of a group of attendees of a proposed event for an available timeslot within each of the calendars that meets boundary conditions specified for the proposed event. In response to failing to find an available time slot in common to all attendee calendars that meets the boundary conditions, the devices autonomously identify a common existing event scheduled within the calendars of the attendees that can accommodate the boundary conditions and add the new event to the existing event, or reschedule a previously scheduled event of one or more of the attendees to create a common, free timeslot for the new event where the event cannot be accommodated within an existing event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Cleaver, Mark Donovan, Stephen J. Lea, Michael J. Mcguire
  • Publication number: 20180365653
    Abstract: Computerized devices search each of a group of different calendars of a group of attendees of a proposed event for an available timeslot within each of the calendars that meets boundary conditions specified for the proposed event. In response to failing to find an available time slot in common to all attendee calendars that meets the boundary conditions, the devices autonomously identify a common existing event scheduled within the calendars of the attendees that can accommodate the boundary conditions and add the new event to the existing event, or reschedule a previously scheduled event of one or more of the attendees to create a common, free timeslot for the new event where the event cannot be accommodated within an existing event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: JAMES D. CLEAVER, MARK DONOVAN, STEPHEN J. LEA, MICHAEL J. MCGUIRE