Patents by Inventor William Denis Schwendner

William Denis Schwendner 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).

  • INTELLIGENT MILESTONES FOR COLLABORATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130179231
    Abstract: A method for using an intelligent milestone for a collaboration system includes, with a physical computing system, determining event sources for a set of events associated with a milestone object for a project, subscribing the milestone object to the event sources, receiving event notifications from the event sources for the milestone object, and applying a set of predefined logical conditions using the event notifications to determine if an objective of the milestone object is complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Akram Bou-Ghannam, William Denis Schwendner, Christan Theo Walenta, Ian Walker