Patents by Inventor Thao Ngoc Nguyen
Thao Ngoc Nguyen 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).
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Patent number: 9971750Abstract: Illustrative embodiments disclose a computer process controlling access to one or more documents by one or more parties, the parties organized over one or more organizations. In response to a party associated with a first organization attempting to access documents, determining an access level associated with the party as a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. In response to determining the access level associated with the party, permitting the party to access the documents, or preventing the party from accessing the documents, according to the access level associated with the party.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Manikandan Dharamarajan, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Linh Hue Lam, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy, Amit Jaysukhial Shah
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Patent number: 9323751Abstract: Access to documents by parties can be controlled as follows. First, access can be controlled in accordance with access counters associated with the parties, where the documents have one or more versions. Second, access can be controlled in accordance with access levels associated with the parties. The access level of each party is one of a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third, and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. Third, access can be controlled in accordance with placement of organizations within a hierarchy of organizations, where the parties are organized over the organizations.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Manikandan Dharamarajan, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Linh Hue Lam, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy, Amit Jaysukhlal Shah
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Patent number: 8650221Abstract: A system and method for associating documents includes providing a plurality of scanned documents of different types and identifying a document type for each scanned document by comparing a determined pattern for each scanned document to known document patterns. Metadata values are extracted from each scanned document using metadata labels, and each scanned document is identified by using extracted metadata values. A stored electronic record is associated with each scanned document by employing the extracted metadata values such that a relationship between the stored electronic record and the associated scanned document is determined and stored.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2007Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Graeme Neville Dixon, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Jim A. Laredo, Sridhar Maradugu, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Brian L. White
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Publication number: 20120197942Abstract: Illustrative embodiments disclose a computer process controlling access to one or more documents by one or more parties, the parties organized over one or more organizations. In response to a party associated with a first organization attempting to access documents, determining an access level associated with the party as a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. In response to determining the access level associated with the party, permitting the party to access the documents, or preventing the party from accessing the documents, according to the access level associated with the party.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Manikandan Dharamarajan, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Linh Hue Lam, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy, Amit Jaysukhial Shah
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Patent number: 8140468Abstract: A system and method for automatically extracting contract data from electronic contracts includes an administrator module configured to provide templates for inputting document patterns and a list of contract data tags for each of a plurality of contract document types. A parser is configured to convert an electronic contract document into a contract text document and reformat the contract text document to provide a pattern for the text contract document. A pattern recognition engine is configured to determine a list of contract document types in the electronic contract by comparing and matching patterns of all known contract document types with the pattern of the contract text document. A contract data extraction engine is configured to extract contract data for each contract document type on the list.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy
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Publication number: 20090228311Abstract: Access to documents by parties can be controlled as follows. First, access can be controlled in accordance with access counters associated with the parties, where the documents have one or more versions. Second, access can be controlled in accordance with access levels associated with the parties. The access level of each party is one of a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third, and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. Third, access can be controlled in accordance with placement of organizations within a hierarchy of organizations, where the parties are organized over the organizations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Manikandan Dharamarajan, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Linh Hue Lam, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy, Amit Jaysukhlal Shah
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Publication number: 20090067013Abstract: A system and method for associating documents includes providing a plurality of scanned documents of different types and identifying a document type for each scanned document by comparing a determined pattern for each scanned document to known document patterns. Metadata values are extracted from each scanned document using metadata labels, and each scanned document is identified by using extracted metadata values. A stored electronic record is associated with each scanned document by employing the extracted metadata values such that a relationship between the stored electronic record and the associated scanned document is determined and stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Inventors: GRAEME NEVILLE DIXON, Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Jim A. Laredo, Sridhar Maradugu, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Brian L. White
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Publication number: 20080235227Abstract: A system and method for automatically extracting contract data from electronic contracts includes an administrator module configured to provide templates for inputting document patterns and a list of contract data tags for each of a plurality of contract document types. A parser is configured to convert an electronic contract document into a contract text document and reformat the contract text document to provide a pattern for the text contract document. A pattern recognition engine is configured to determine a list of contract document types in the electronic contract by comparing and matching patterns of all known contract document types with the pattern of the contract text document. A contract data extraction engine is configured to extract contract data for each contract document type on the list.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy
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Publication number: 20070300295Abstract: A system and method for automatically extracting contract data from electronic contracts includes an administrator module configured to provide templates for inputting document patterns and a list of contract data tags for each of a plurality of contract document types. A parser is configured to convert an electronic contract document into a contract text document and reformat the contract text document to provide a pattern for the text contract document. A pattern recognition engine is configured to determine a list of contract document types in the electronic contract by comparing and matching patterns of all known contract document types with the pattern of the contract text document. A contract data extraction engine is configured to extract contract data for each contract document type on the list.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Kakan Roy
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Patent number: 5788870Abstract: The adhesion between a polymeric fluorocarbon film and a substrate is improved by providing a non-volatile carbide-forming metallic layer intermediate the substrate and the polymeric fluorocarbon film, and exposing the substrate to ion-bombardment in a noble gas/polymerizing gas atmosphere prior to providing the fluorocarbon films.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1995Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Gottlieb Stefan Oehrlein, Zeev Avraham Weinberg