Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Burris

Thomas J. Burris 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: 11720528
    Abstract: At least one unique collection of storage artifacts can be specified to indicate that the storage artifact is a member of the unique collection. Each storage artifact can be a discrete object comprising digitally encoded content that is stored as a node within a tree structure of a tangible storage medium. The collection can be referenced by a set of different storage artifacts to form a collection of related storage artifacts. Each storage artifact can correspond to different collections, wherein membership within a collection is independent of a storage path within the tree structure. A file management action relating to the storage artifact can be performed. The file management action can be dependent upon the storage artifact being a member of the unique collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Bhavan Kumar Kasivajjula, Manish Kataria, Anurag Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11481227
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Publication number: 20220121622
    Abstract: At least one unique collection of storage artifacts can be specified to indicate that the storage artifact is a member of the unique collection. Each storage artifact can be a discrete object comprising digitally encoded content that is stored as a node within a tree structure of a tangible storage medium. The collection can be referenced by a set of different storage artifacts to form a collection of related storage artifacts. Each storage artifact can correspond to different collections, wherein membership within a collection is independent of a storage path within the tree structure. A file management action relating to the storage artifact can be performed. The file management action can be dependent upon the storage artifact being a member of the unique collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Bhavan Kumar Kasivajjula, Manish Kataria, Anurag Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20220121453
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Patent number: 11226932
    Abstract: At least one unique collection of storage artifacts can be specified to indicate that the storage artifact is a member of the unique collection. Each storage artifact can be a discrete object comprising digitally encoded content that is stored as a node within a tree structure of a tangible storage medium. The collection can be referenced by a set of different storage artifacts to form a collection of related storage artifacts. Each storage artifact can correspond to different collections, wherein membership within a collection is independent of a storage path within the tree structure. A file management action relating to the storage artifact can be performed. The file management action can be dependent upon the storage artifact being a member of the unique collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Bhavan Kumar Kasivajjula, Manish Kataria, Anurag Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11023251
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Publication number: 20200042326
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Publication number: 20200019534
    Abstract: At least one unique collection of storage artifacts can be specified to indicate that the storage artifact is a member of the unique collection. Each storage artifact can be a discrete object comprising digitally encoded content that is stored as a node within a tree structure of a tangible storage medium. The collection can be referenced by a set of different storage artifacts to form a collection of related storage artifacts. Each storage artifact can correspond to different collections, wherein membership within a collection is independent of a storage path within the tree structure. A file management action relating to the storage artifact can be performed. The file management action can be dependent upon the storage artifact being a member of the unique collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Bhavan Kumar Kasivajjula, Manish Kataria, Anurag Srivastava
  • Patent number: 10452406
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Patent number: 10423577
    Abstract: At least one unique collection of storage artifacts can be specified to indicate that the storage artifact is a member of the unique collection. Each storage artifact can be a discrete object comprising digitally encoded content that is stored as a node within a tree structure of a tangible storage medium. The collection can be referenced by a set of different storage artifacts to form a collection of related storage artifacts. Each storage artifact can correspond to different collections, wherein membership within a collection is independent of a storage path within the tree structure. A file management action relating to the storage artifact can be performed. The file management action can be dependent upon the storage artifact being a member of the unique collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Bhavan Kumar Kasivajjula, Manish Kataria, Anurag Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20180032348
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, MANISH KATARIA
  • Publication number: 20180004538
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, MANISH KATARIA
  • Patent number: 9804863
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Patent number: 9766906
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Manish Kataria
  • Patent number: 8914388
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention includes a method for centralized URL commenting, wherein user-generated comment data is extracted from web pages on a plurality of web sites. Access control parameters are also obtained from the web sites. The comment data is tagged with identifiers indicating the web sites that the comment data was extracted from, URLs indicating the web pages that the comment data are on, and authors of the comment data. The comment data is stored in a repository. Keywords are extracted from the comment data; and, the keywords are normalized. The normalizing of the keywords includes creating a single normalized keyword for multiple keywords related to the same topic, and tagging comment data that include at least one of the multiple keywords with the normalized keyword. Read access and/or write access to the repository is controlled based on the access control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Brian D. Goodman
  • Publication number: 20130173700
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, MANISH KATARIA
  • Publication number: 20130173703
    Abstract: A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, MANISH KATARIA
  • Patent number: 8260765
    Abstract: Disclosed is a service for displaying custom information. The service includes establishing a data connection to at least one data source, storing specific information via the data connection in the data source, and providing a data crawler to crawl said at least one data source using the stored information. The results are pushed from the data crawler to an end user for displaying a combination of the stored information and the at least one data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maria Arbusto, Robi Brunner, Thomas J. Burris, Melania Degeratu, James R. Doran, Sarah N. Goldman, Brian D. Goodman, Brian P. Olore, Aroopratan D. Pandya, Chen Shu, Matthew S. Starr
  • Publication number: 20120215798
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention includes a method for centralized URL commenting, wherein user-generated comment data is extracted from web pages on a plurality of web sites. Access control parameters are also obtained from the web sites. The comment data is tagged with identifiers indicating the web sites that the comment data was extracted from, URLs indicating the web pages that the comment data are on, and authors of the comment data. The comment data is stored in a repository. Keywords are extracted from the comment data; and, the keywords are normalized. The normalizing of the keywords includes creating a single normalized keyword for multiple keywords related to the same topic, and tagging comment data that include at least one of the multiple keywords with the normalized keyword. Read access and/or write access to the repository is controlled based on the access control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Brian D. Goodman
  • Publication number: 20120165043
    Abstract: A plurality of tags can be generated by a user using the mobile electronic device and is associated with the current location of the mobile electronic device. A message can include metadata associated with the current location and at least a subset of tags from the plurality of tags. The message can be transmitted to a first system over a mobile communication network. The message received from the mobile electronic device can be stored in a repository of the first system. The first system can identify the current location of the mobile electronic device using the message. The system can parse the subset of tags and can maps the parsed subset of tags with the current location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, ANANTH KALYAN CHAKRAVARTHY G