Patents by Inventor Terrence T. Nixa

Terrence T. Nixa 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: 10275487
    Abstract: A first question may be received. A first tag may be identified. The first tag may correspond to a first demographic trait. The first tag may be for use in providing a context for generating a first answer estimate to the first question. The first answer estimate may be generated using natural language processing and based on the first tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Cynthia M. Murch, Terrence T. Nixa, Jan M. Nordland, John E. Petri, Michelle A. Schlicht
  • Publication number: 20160364391
    Abstract: A first question may be received. A first tag may be identified. The first tag may correspond to a first demographic trait. The first tag may be for use in providing a context for generating a first answer estimate to the first question. The first answer estimate may be generated using natural language processing and based on the first tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Cynthia M. Murch, Terrence T. Nixa, Jan M. Nordland, John E. Petri, Michelle A. Schlicht
  • Patent number: 7930636
    Abstract: Automatically completing a GUI task. Exemplary embodiments a method including providing a user configurable auto-completion application operating in the background of a computer operating system and executing on a computing device, the auto-completion application monitoring and archiving user activities, wherein certain actions by the user are parsed and indexed, analyzing the parsed and indexed actions of the user to determine at least one of relationships, user interactions, user statistics, various states of the user's actions over time, and images or video of the user's interaction to create an index of the user's typical interactions with the system and providing a fast-forward functionality based on the index such that a tree structure is presented to the user on a display device of the computing device, the tree structure indicating the user's current state in the system and one or more future states the user typically takes based on a past act.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary A. Garbow, Bryan M. Logan, Terrence T. Nixa, Kevin G. Paterson
  • Publication number: 20090064000
    Abstract: Automatically completing a GUI task. Exemplary embodiments a method including providing a user configurable auto-completion application operating in the background of a computer operating system and executing on a computing device, the auto-completion application monitoring and archiving user activities, wherein certain actions by the user are parsed and indexed, analyzing the parsed and indexed actions of the user to determine at least one of relationships, user interactions, user statistics, various states of the user's actions over time, and images or video of the user's interaction to create an index of the user's typical interactions with the system and providing a fast-forward functionality based on the index such that a tree structure is presented to the user on a display device of the computing device, the tree structure indicating the user's current state in the system and one or more future states the user typically takes based on a past act.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zachary A. Garbow, Bryan M. Logan, Terrence T. Nixa, Kevin G. Paterson
  • Publication number: 20080104528
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are provided for capturing a GUI display environment. Embodiments include identifying a plurality of rendered GUI objects in the GUI display; selecting one or more GUI objects for non-functional re-rendering; selecting one or more GUI objects for functional re-rendering saving the content and display characteristics of each GUI object for non-functional re-rendering; saving the content, display characteristics, and at least one of the functional GUI characteristics of each GUI object for functional re-rendering; non-functionally re-rendering one or more of the GUI objects in dependence upon the saved content and display characteristics; and functionally re-rendering one or more of the GUI objects in dependence upon the saved content, display characteristics, and functional GUI characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Bryan M. Logan, Terrence T. Nixa