Patents by Inventor Timothy Peter Griffith

Timothy Peter Griffith 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: 9147006
    Abstract: A computer management apparatus, method and computer program operable for displaying a data file on a client computer, wherein the data file comprises a structure file and a first plurality of data elements, the apparatus comprising: a send component operable for sending a first message comprising a request for the structure file; a receive component operable for receiving the structure file; an evaluate component operable for determining a second plurality of data elements, wherein the second plurality of data elements is associated with a visible area; a send component further operable for sending a second message, wherein the second message comprises a request for the second plurality of data elements; a receive component further operable for receiving the second plurality of data elements; and a display component, responsive to receipt of the second plurality of data elements, operable for displaying the second plurality of data elements in the visible area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Brown, Timothy Peter Griffith, Anthony Philip Papageorgiou, Gavin Peter Willingham
  • Publication number: 20120284346
    Abstract: A computer management apparatus, method and computer program operable for displaying a data file on a client computer, wherein the data file comprises a structure file and a first plurality of data elements, the apparatus comprising: a send component operable for sending a first message comprising a request for the structure file; a receive component operable for receiving the structure file; an evaluate component operable for determining a second plurality of data elements, wherein the second plurality of data elements is associated with a visible area; a send component further operable for sending a second message, wherein the second message comprises a request for the second plurality of data elements; a receive component further operable for receiving the second plurality of data elements; and a display component, responsive to receipt of the second plurality of data elements, operable for displaying the second plurality of data elements in the visible area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines
    Inventors: Martin Brown, Timothy Peter Griffith, Anthony Philip Papageorgiou, Gavin Peter Willingham
  • Patent number: 8245127
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide method, system and computer program product for annotating a document being divided by intervals. The method includes identifying, at each interval in the document, one or more keywords in the text of the document; determining, at each interval, the number of context classes associated with each keyword; identifying at least one annotation word and at an interval in the text of the document, the annotation word having two or more annotations associated with two or more context classes; determining the annotation based on the context class with highest count at the annotation word interval; and annotating the document with the determined annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Peter Griffith, Bernard Zdzislaw Kufluk, Sarah Elizabeth Styles, Henry Tonnison
  • Publication number: 20110320472
    Abstract: Processing a query for a database includes: receiving a portion of a query from a client device in a server implemented by at least one processor, the portion of the query comprising an incomplete component; determining that the incomplete component is one of multiple predefined types with the server; providing the incomplete component to an auto-complete function specific to the determined type of the incomplete component; receiving in the server a suggestion for completing the query from the auto-complete function, the suggestion being specific to the type of the incomplete component; and providing the suggestion from the server to the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Peter Griffith, Ian Mark Shore, Samuel Jonathan Smith, Martin James Smithson
  • Publication number: 20090215470
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed in which the location of a mobile device is calculated from the signal coverage areas of other detected nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Helen Samantha Bowyer, Timothy Peter Griffith, Andrew Taylor
  • Publication number: 20090150763
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for annotating a document, said document being divided by intervals, said method comprising: identifying, at each interval in the document, one or more keywords in the text of the document; determining, at each interval, the number of context classes associated with each keyword; identifying at least one annotation word and at an interval in the text of the document, said annotation word having two or more annotations associated with two or more context classes; determining the annotation based on the context class with highest count at the annotation word interval; and annotating the document with the determined annotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Peter Griffith, Bernard Zdzislaw Kufluk, Sarah Elizabeth Styles, Henry Tonnison