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).

  • Publication number: 20110320479
    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: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, BHAVAN KUMAR KASIVAJJULA, MANISH KATARIA, ANURAG SRIVASTAVA
  • Publication number: 20110316672
    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: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS J. BURRIS, ANANTH KALYAN CHAKRAVARTHY G
  • Patent number: 7953725
    Abstract: Web information processing services are provided by scanning at least one data feed for content relevant to a first subject category and associating relevant content found as a result of the scanning with the first subject category. The first subject category is selected by a first web user. A first domain including results of the associating is created, and the first domain is associated with the first web user. The first domain is published as a syndicatable data feed over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Burris, Aroopratan D. Pandya, Dmitry Rekesh
  • Publication number: 20090182804
    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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Maria Arbusto, Robi Brunner, Thomas J. Burris, Melania Degeratu, James R. Doran, Sarah N. Goldman, Brian D. Goodman, Brian P. Olore