Patents by Inventor Stephen Stibler

Stephen Stibler 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).

  • Method and system for providing a common collaboration framework accessible from within multiple applications
    Patent number: 7827242
    Abstract: The invention provides a system adapted to enable contextual collaboration within a computer network. The invention provides a collaboration manager that supports manipulation of collaboration spaces. The collaboration spaces contain one or more collaboration elements that have potentially different collaboration modalities. The context manager maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts. The resources can include collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and/or roles. A view generator selects a set of the resources to be displayed to a user of the computer network. The invention also includes an interface adapted to allow applications to specify commands to manipulate collaboration spaces, commands to maintain resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, and queries for context-sensitive views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mitchell A. Cohen, Fenno F. Heath, III, Hui Lei, Chung-Sheng Li, Jenny S. Li, Rakesh Mohan, Nitinchandra R. Nayak, Josef Schiefer, Stephen Stibler, Maroun Touma
  • Method and system for providing a common collaboration framework accessible from within multiple applications
    Patent number: 7383302
    Abstract: The invention provides a system adapted to enable contextual collaboration within a computer network. The invention provides a collaboration manager that supports manipulation of collaboration spaces. The collaboration spaces contain one or more collaboration elements that have potentially different collaboration modalities. The context manager maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts. The resources can include collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and/or roles. A view generator selects a set of the resources to be displayed to a user of the computer network. The invention also includes an interface adapted to allow applications to specify commands to manipulate collaboration spaces, commands to maintain resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, and queries for context-sensitive views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mitchell A. Cohen, Fenno F. Heath, III, Hui Lei, Chung-Sheng Li, Jenny S. Li, Rakesh Mohan, Nitinchandra R. Nayak, Josef Schiefer, Stephen Stibler, Maroun Touma
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COMMON COLLABORATION FRAMEWORK ACCESSIBLE FROM WITHIN MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20070294348
    Abstract: The invention provides a system adapted to enable contextual collaboration within a computer network. The invention provides a collaboration manager that supports manipulation of collaboration spaces. The collaboration spaces contain one or more collaboration elements that have potentially different collaboration modalities. The context manager maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts. The resources can include collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and/or roles. A view generator selects a set of the resources to be displayed to a user of the computer network. The invention also includes an interface adapted to allow applications to specify commands to manipulate collaboration spaces, commands to maintain resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, and queries for context-sensitive views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Mitchell Cohen, Fenno Heath, Hui Lei, Chung-Sheng Li, Jenny Li, Rakesh Mohan, Nitinchandra Nayak, Josef Schiefer, Stephen Stibler, Maroun Touma
  • Method and system for providing a common collaboration framework accessible from within multiple applications
    Publication number: 20050060371
    Abstract: The invention provides a system adapted to enable contextual collaboration within a computer network. In invention, a collaboration manager supports manipulation of collaboration spaces. The collaboration spaces contain one or more collaboration elements that have potentially different collaboration modalities. The context manager maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts. The resources can include collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and/or roles. A view generator selects a set of the resources to be displayed to a user of the computer network. The invention also includes an interface adapted to allow applications to specify commands to manipulate collaboration spaces, commands to maintain resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, and queries for context-sensitive views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Mitchell Cohen, Fenno Heath, Hui Lei, Chung-Sheng Li, Jenny Li, Rakesh Mohan, Nitinchandra Nayak, Josef Schiefer, Stephen Stibler, Maroun Touma