Patents by Inventor Wayne Brown
Wayne Brown 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: 7568014Abstract: A method, system and program for specifying message outputs in a messaging session are provided. A message entry is received in association with a particular topic from among multiple available topics from a particular user from among multiple users participating in a messaging session. Output attributes are assigned to the message entry according to receiving user specified output preferences for the particular topic individually specified by each of the receiving users participating in the messaging session, such that output of the message entry is uniquely specified for each of the receiving users participating.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Rabindranath Dutta, Michael A Paolini
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Patent number: 7567554Abstract: A proxy service provides telephone conferencing services and personal telephony services. Users can participate in the conference by connecting through different types of networks using a device having one or more types of communication lines connected to the proxy service. A primary user can request the proxy to call each one of the users and establish the conference. The primary user may accomplish this through a data line using data requests or though a voice line using voice requests. Typically, the primary user provides a telephone number for each user. The primary user can also provide with specific times of when calls should be placed, identification information for each user, the type of conference, and other conference parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Victor S. Moore, Michael A. Paolini, Scott Lee Winters
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Patent number: 7565645Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for marking data versioning for code. Responsive to receiving an application programming interface call, a first marking statement in the code and a second marking statement are inserted in the code. A portion of code between the first marking statement and the second marking statement forms a marked section of code. A change made in data in an object caused by execution of the marked portion of code is detected. The detected change is tracked in manner such that the object may be restored to a prior state.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd.Inventors: John William Barrs, Michael Wayne Brown, Paul Stuart Williamson
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Patent number: 7562043Abstract: Provided is a method, system, and program for implementing an auction. Scheduled event records for a user are maintained within a computer database, wherein each scheduled event record indicates a scheduled event for the user at a calendar time slot. A request is received for bids for a service from the user indicating a time period, wherein the service is to be performed during a calendar time slot within the indicated time period. A determination is made of scheduled event records for the user within the indicated time period. A template is generated to display a calendar for the indicated time period showing time slots. Available time slots comprise time slots in the indicated time period that do not include one scheduled event as indicated in the scheduled event records. At least one bid for the service is received for one available time slot in which the service is to be performed, wherein the bid indicates an amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Rabindranath Dutta, Michael A. Paolini
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Patent number: 7559216Abstract: A three-piece panty garment can include three panels formed from separate tubular blanks knit on a small-circumference circular knitting machine designed for making pantyhose. As a result, such a panty garment can comprise an unstretched girth that is substantially three times the circumference of a small-circumference circular knitting machine knitting cylinder. Such panty garments and methods of making such panty garments can provide larger size panty garments made on a circular knitting machine designed for making pantyhose.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: HBI Branded Apparel Enterprises, LLCInventors: Walter H. Imboden, Ronald Wayne Brown
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Patent number: 7552855Abstract: A method of hole defect repair includes removing one or more defects at or near a desired hole shape in a substrate by removing a non-concentric portion of the substrate proximate the desired hole shape, and welding a filler material to the substrate after removing the non-concentric portion of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Chris Vargas, John F. Mullooly, Allen Wayne Brown
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Patent number: 7551563Abstract: A system for routing different data types along different client-to-network connection paths. A connection utility, at the client, monitors a data type being transmitted. When a first data type is being transmitted, the connection utility selects a most optimal (or efficient) connection route for that data type. The connection utility then assigns a next connection route for a second data type with different characteristics and/or routing requirements than the first data type. Differences in routing path that are factored into the criteria for selection include: wired versus wireless, level of security, transfer protocol, connection cost, speed, etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bruce A. Beadle, Michael Wayne Brown, Randolph Michael Forlenza, Douglas Scott Rothert, Miguel Sang
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Patent number: 7532809Abstract: Automated personal video recording, including selecting a lender from among one or more lenders, in which the selecting is carried out in dependence upon a deficit amount, the lenders include at least one user having free storage space and at least one pool having free storage space. The method also includes borrowing, in dependence upon the deficit amount, from the selected lender for a borrower, at least one loan amount of storage space, the borrower having allocated storage space on the PVR optionally including free space, and recording a show for the borrower, the show having a storage space requirement exceeding the borrower's free space by the deficit amount. The borrower can be an individual user or a group comprised of more than one user.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen B. Boston, Michael Wayne Brown, Andrew Douglas Hately, Michael A. Paolini
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Patent number: 7529471Abstract: Automated personal video recording for multi-user personal video recorders having a multiplicity of registered users, each user having allocated storage space on the PVR which allocated storage space for each user includes storage space upon which shows are recorded and storage space upon which shows have not been recorded (free space), including recording for a borrower a show owned by the borrower, the show having a storage space requirement exceeding the borrower's free space by a deficit amount; selecting, in dependence upon the deficit amount, one or more lenders, wherein the lenders are users, registered on the PVR, having free space; and borrowing, in dependence upon the deficit amount, from the lenders for the borrower, at least one loan amount of storage space. Embodiments include returning from the borrower to the lender the deficit amount after displaying the show to the borrower or upon repossession by a lender.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen B. Boston, David Earl Blaschke, Michael Wayne Brown, Andrew Douglas Hately, Michael A. Paolini
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Patent number: 7523302Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, ingredients for a particular electronic recipe accessible at a particular web site are encrypted, wherein the encrypted ingredients may be decrypted by a food retailer that intends to pre-package the encrypted ingredients. Instructions for preparing the electronic recipe and the encrypted ingredients are transmitted to a computer system associated with a particular user. The particular user may select the food retailer at which the encrypted ingredients are to be pre-packaged and transmit the encrypted ingredients to the food retailer. The selected food retailer may decrypt the encrypted ingredients utilizing a decryption key provided by the particular web site and pre-package the encrypted ingredients for the particular user.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Kelvin Roderick Lawrence, Michael A. Paolini
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Patent number: 7519322Abstract: A method, system, and program for tracking locally broadcast electronic works are provided. According to one aspect of the invention, a sending player locally broadcasts an electronic work. In particular, the local broadcast may be a wireless broadcast creating an ad-hoc radio system. At least one recipient player receives the localized broadcast of the electronic work and accepts a distribution cookie for tracking distribution of the electronic work. The at least one recipient player updates the distribution cookie with tracking information about the broadcast of the electronic work, including ratings by users at the second player and purchase of the broadcast electronic work. Each of the at least one recipient players may in turn become a sending player that broadcasts the electronic work to other recipient players and requires the other recipient players to accept a copy of the distribution cookie updated by the second player.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Michael A. Paolini, Newton James Smith, Jr., Cornell G. Wright, Jr.
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Patent number: 7515873Abstract: A method, system, and program for responding to recipient ratings of wirelessly broadcast electronic works are provided. A secondary player receives a wireless broadcast of an electronic work from a primary player. Next, responsive to a playback of the electronic work from the secondary player, the secondary player requires a recipient of the electronic work to rate the electronic work. Then, responsive to the recipient rating the electronic work or an automatic rating selection made based on the recipient's preferences, the options available to the recipient may be dynamically adjusted. First, responsive to the recipient rating the electronic work with a favorable rating, the secondary player triggers a purchase offer for the electronic work when the secondary player is connected to a network providing access to a purchase server.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Michael A. Paolini, Newton James Smith, Jr., Cornell G. Wright, Jr.
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Publication number: 20090074380Abstract: Automated personal video recording comprising scheduling a show for a user having allocated storage space on a personal video recorder (“PVR”), wherein the show has a storage space requirement that exceeds the user's free space, and the PVR is coupled for data communications to a storage space provider; and transmitting to the storage space provider an order to record the show through the storage space provider in storage space on a remote PVR that is coupled for data communications to the storage space provider. Receiving in a storage space provider from a personal video recorder (“PVR”) an order to record a show on a remote PVR, the order comprising an identification of a show and a schedule for recording the show; selecting a remote PVR; and recording the show, in dependence upon the show identification and the schedule for recording the show, in storage space on the selected remote PVR.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen B. Boston, Michael Wayne Brown, Michael A. Paolini
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Publication number: 20090063623Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining connection information to use to access an artifact from an application on a remote server. A request is received in a local server for an artifact at a target application executing on a remote server. A determination is made as to whether a local repository includes connection information on the remote server. The connection information is used to communicate the request for the artifact to the remote server over a network. The connection information is accessed from the local repository in response to determining that the local repository includes the connection information for the remote server. A determination is made as to whether a common repository is available to provide the connection information for the remote server in response to determining that the local repository does not include the connection information for the remote server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Wayne BROWN, Gang CHEN, Hua CHENG, Christopher Shane CLAUSSEN, Xin HUANG, Xiaochun MEI, Charles James REDLIN, Hai Yun ZHAO
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Patent number: 7496639Abstract: A message entry is received in association with a particular topic from among multiple available topics from a particular user from among multiple users participating in a messaging session. Output attributes are assigned to the message entry according to receiving user specified output preferences for the particular topic individually specified by each of the receiving users participating in the messaging session, such that output of the message entry is uniquely specified for each of the receiving users participating.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Rabindranath Dutta, Michael A. Paolini
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Publication number: 20090044869Abstract: An irrigation valve box includes a body for shielding the valve, which forms an opening at the top, and a removable lid for fitting into the opening formed by the body. Access to the valve is normally gained by removing the lid. Metal is associated with the valve box for the purpose of being detected by a metal detector. In one arrangement the metal forms a plate which fits into the removable lid. In an arrangement especially suited for a larger or commercial valve box, the metal forms a metal ring which fits into the removable lid. In yet another arrangement, the lid comprises molded plastic or molded rubber and the metal is molded into the lid. In one such an arrangement, the metal forms a wire mesh.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Wayne Brown, Morris A. Brown
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Patent number: 7489679Abstract: A system for a proxy service to provide telephone conferencing services and personal telephony services. Users can participate in the conference by connecting through different types of networks using a device having one or more types of communication lines connected to the proxy service. A primary user can request the proxy to call each one of the users and establish the conference. The primary user may accomplish this through a data line using data requests or though a voice line using voice requests. Typically, the primary user provides a telephone number for each user. The primary user can also provide with specific times of when calls should be placed, identification information for each user, the type of conference, and other conference parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Victor S. Moore, Michael A. Paolini, Scott Lee Winters
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Patent number: 7486779Abstract: A method, system, and program for origin device initiated callee identification are provided. At an origin device, a voice utterance of a callee is detected from a destination device. A callee identity associated with the voice utterance is identified at the origin device, such that the callee identity is transmittable as an authenticated identity of the callee for a call. A caller may select whether to continue a call dependent upon whether the callee identity is preferable. In addition, an intermediary device may receive the callee identity and specify services available during the call according to the callee identity.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2001Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
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Publication number: 20090016506Abstract: A method, system, and program for logging calls according to call context are provided. A context for a call is detected, where the context include information such as the parties to a call, whether a backup party is accessed, where the call is on behalf of another, the locations of the parties to the call, the subject matter of the call, tariffs applied during the call, billing for telephone services accessed during the call, and orders placed during the call. At least one context based logging request valid for the context for the call is accessed from among multiple context based logging requests stored for multiple parties. Parties requesting logging may include parties to the call, on behalf of parties, third parties, and guardians. The context is logged according to the context based logging request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert Mclntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
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Patent number: 7474832Abstract: Automated personal video recording comprising scheduling a show for a user having allocated storage space on a personal video recorder (“PVR”), wherein the show has a storage space requirement that exceeds the user's free space, and the PVR is coupled for data communications to a storage space provider; and transmitting to the storage space provider an order to record the show through the storage space provider in storage space on a remote PVR that is coupled for data communications to the storage space provider. Receiving in a storage space provider from a personal video recorder (“PVR”) an order to record a show on a remote PVR, the order comprising an identification of a show and a schedule for recording the show; selecting a remote PVR; and recording the show, in dependence upon the show identification and the schedule for recording the show, in storage space on the selected remote PVR.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen B. Boston, Michael Wayne Brown, Michael A. Paolini