Patents by Inventor Terry G. Thomas, Jr.

Terry G. Thomas, Jr. 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).

  • Reconnection to and migration of electronic collaboration sessions
    Patent number: 8386609
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to electronic collaboration sessions and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing reconnection to and migration of electronic collaboration sessions. A method for managing a collaboration session includes providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to store data regarding a plurality of clients of a collaboration session, and monitor a connection of each of the plurality of clients to a host system. The computer infrastructure is further operable to (i) migrate the plurality of clients to a new host system after determining that a number of the plurality of clients experiencing connection problems with the first host system exceeds a threshold value and/or (ii) present customized summary data to at least one of the plurality of clients after the at least one of the plurality of clients reconnects to the collaboration session after having been disconnected from the collaboration session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vaijayanthimala K. Anand, Sandra K. Johnson, Linda Jones Scott, Kimberly DaShawn Simon, Terry G. Thomas, Jr.
  • RECONNECTION TO AND MIGRATION OF ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION SESSIONS
    Publication number: 20090125589
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to electronic collaboration sessions and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing reconnection to and migration of electronic collaboration sessions. A method for managing a collaboration session includes providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to store data regarding a plurality of clients of a collaboration session, and monitor a connection of each of the plurality of clients to a host system. The computer infrastructure is further operable to (i) migrate the plurality of clients to a new host system after determining that a number of the plurality of clients experiencing connection problems with the first host system exceeds a threshold value and/or (ii) present customized summary data to at least one of the plurality of clients after the at least one of the plurality of clients reconnects to the collaboration session after having been disconnected from the collaboration session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vaijayanthimala K. Anand, Sandra K. Johnson, Linda Jones Scott, Kimberly DaShawn Simon, Terry G. Thomas, JR.