Patents by Inventor Walter Hehl

Walter Hehl 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: 7386520
    Abstract: Method for dynamically allocating a cost to an e-mail that a first user of a transmission network such as the Internet network or an Intranet network who is a member of a group, wants to forward to a second user of the transmission network who is also a member of the group. The method comprising the steps of forwarding by the first user the e-mail to a market engine in charge of allocating a cost to the e-mail, determining by the market engine the cost of the e-mail based upon intrinsic and extrinsic criteria, submitting the cost of the e-mail to the first user for agreement, forwarding by the market engine the e-mail to the second user, and updating a credit account associated with the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Hehl, Abderrahim Labbi, Mark Lutwyche
  • Publication number: 20040098460
    Abstract: Method for dynamically allocating a cost to an e-mail that a first user of a transmission network such as the Internet network or an Intranet network who is a member of a group, wants to forward to a second user of the transmission network who is also a member of the group. The method comprising the steps of forwarding by the first user the e-mail to a market engine in charge of allocating a cost to the e-mail, determining by the market engine the cost of the e-mail based upon intrinsic and extrinsic criteria, submitting the cost of the e-mail to the first user for agreement, forwarding by the market engine the e-mail to the second user, and updating a credit account associated with the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Hehl, Abderrahim Labbi, Mark Lutwyche
  • Patent number: 4101009
    Abstract: The vibration forces between a frame and a continuously oscillating mass are absorbed by making the oscillating mass system and its drive means equal and by fitting each such system and means to the frame with identical resilient elements such that oscillation movements of system and means occur out of phase one with the other to absorb the exciting vibration forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Hehl, Horst Matthaei