Patents by Inventor William K. Bodin

William K. Bodin 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: 20200160458
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to digital experience development platforms and, more particularly, one or more components, systems and methods thereof of an intelligent digital experience development platform (IDXDP) configured to assist different users in the development, design and deployment of digital applications. A computer-implemented method comprises: determining, by a computing device, that each of a plurality of users of an integrated development environment (IDE) has a common question about performing a task in the IDE; determining, by the computing device, that a community-accepted answer exists to the common question about performing the task in the IDE; and updating support documentation for the IDE based on the community-accepted answer to the common question about performing the task in the IDE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: William K. BODIN, Edward H. GROSS, Komandur R. KUMAR, Matthew A. TERRY, Matthew B. TREVATHAN, Mahendar YEDLA
  • Patent number: 10567459
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method and system of restricting access to portions of a media file. The method includes marking a media file such that it has at least two portions. All of the portions are locked except the first portion. The number of times the media file is shared is tracked. Thereafter, a second portion can be unlocked once a threshold number of shares has been tracked. Shares can include social media shares, views, and the like. The media file can be a video file, audio file or other type of media file. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 10552616
    Abstract: A method includes retrieving application files of an enterprise application store. Each application file corresponds to an application provided by the enterprise application store. The method also includes scanning each retrieved application file. The scanning includes identifying vulnerable application program interfaces that are used by each retrieved application file. The method also includes assigning a vulnerability index to each application, based on the scanning of each application's corresponding application file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Indiver N. Dwivedi, David Jaramillo
  • Patent number: 10229108
    Abstract: A system and method for adaptive spell checking and correction. The method includes tracking frequencies of historical replacement strings of characters, and providing a list of “n” number of the historical replacement strings of characters in response to a string of characters which were previously changed or are not recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, John S. Langford
  • Publication number: 20180239903
    Abstract: A method includes retrieving application files of an enterprise application store. Each application file corresponds to an application provided by the enterprise application store. The method also includes scanning each retrieved application file. The scanning includes identifying vulnerable application program interfaces that are used by each retrieved application file. The method also includes assigning a vulnerability index to each application, based on the scanning of each application's corresponding application file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Indiver N. Dwivedi, David Jaramillo
  • Publication number: 20180218125
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method that includes receiving, by a recipient device, an instruction to move the recipient device from a current position to a target position. The instruction is received from a director device. The method also includes generating a haptic response based on the received instruction. The haptic response is generated based upon the relative positioning between the current position and the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Indiver N. Dwivedi, David Jaramillo
  • Publication number: 20170339205
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method and system of restricting access to portions of a media file. The method includes marking a media file such that it has at least two portions. All of the portions are locked except the first portion. The number of times the media file is shared is tracked. Thereafter, a second portion can be unlocked once a threshold number of shares has been tracked. Shares can include social media shares, views, and the like. The media file can be a video file, audio file or other type of media file. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 9535723
    Abstract: A mobile device accepts a selection of a file for opening or editing or both. The file is associated with a file type. A mobile application on the mobile device identifies the file type associated with the file. A request message is constructed that is indicative of the file type and one or more user credentials. The request message is sent to a cloud server. The mobile device receives an address for a selected cloud image from the cloud server and, in response thereto, connects to a remote processing environment in the selected cloud image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Thomas E Cook, David Jaramillo, Neil A Katz
  • Patent number: 9530411
    Abstract: A prompt generation engine operates to dynamically extend prompts of a multimodal application. The prompt generation engine receives a media file having a metadata container. The prompt generation engine operates on a multimodal device that supports a voice mode and a non-voice mode for interacting with the multimodal device. The prompt generation engine retrieves from the metadata container a speech prompt related to content stored in the media file for inclusion in the multimodal application. The prompt generation engine modifies the multimodal application to include the speech prompt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, William K. Bodin, Charles W. Cross, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9396721
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products for testing a grammar used in speech recognition for reliability in a plurality of operating environments having different background noise that include: receiving recorded background noise for each of the plurality of operating environments; generating a test speech utterance for recognition by a speech recognition engine using a grammar; mixing the test speech utterance with each recorded background noise, resulting in a plurality of mixed test speech utterances, each mixed test speech utterance having different background noise; performing, for each of the mixed test speech utterances, speech recognition using the grammar and the mixed test speech utterance, resulting in speech recognition results for each of the mixed test speech utterances; and evaluating, for each recorded background noise, speech recognition reliability of the grammar in dependence upon the speech recognition results for the mixed test speech utterance having that recorded background noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, William K. Bodin, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Michael H. Mirt
  • Patent number: 9361299
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for RSS content administration for rendering RSS content on a digital audio player. Embodiments include retrieving, through an RSS feed, RSS content; extracting text from the RSS content; creating a media file; and storing the extracted text of the RSS content as metadata associated with the media file. Embodiments also typically include extracting one or more images from the RSS content; and storing the extracted images as metadata associated with the media file. Embodiments also typically include extracting text from the RSS content for audio rendering on the digital audio player; converting the text to speech; and recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file. Many embodiments also include storing the media file on a digital audio player; displaying the metadata describing the media file; and playing the audio portion containing the speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jerry W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson
  • Patent number: 9349367
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for record disambiguation in a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device, the multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including at least a voice mode and a visual mode, that include: prompting, by the multimodal application, a user to identify a particular record among a plurality of records; receiving, by the multimodal application in response to the prompt, a voice utterance from the user; determining, by the multimodal application, that the voice utterance ambiguously identifies more than one of the plurality of records; generating, by the multimodal application, a user interaction to disambiguate the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance in dependence upon record attributes of the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance; and selecting, by the multimodal application for further processing, one of the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance in dependence upon the user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, William K. Bodin, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Pradeep P. Mansey
  • Publication number: 20160132545
    Abstract: A system and method for adaptive spell checking and correction. The method includes tracking frequencies of historical replacement strings of characters, and providing a list of “n” number of the historical replacement strings of characters in response to a string of characters which were previously changed or are not recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: William K. BODIN, Gregory J. BOSS, Rick A. HAMILTON, II, John S. LANGFORD
  • Patent number: 9318100
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for supplementing audio recorded in a media file. Embodiments include receiving a media file; identifying the subject matter of audio portion of the media file; identifying supplemental content for supplementing the subject matter recorded in the audio portion of the media file; and inserting in the media file markup for rendering the supplemental content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jesse W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson
  • Patent number: 9275036
    Abstract: A system and method for adaptive spell checking and correction. The method includes tracking frequencies of historical replacement strings of characters, and providing a list of “n” number of the historical replacement strings of characters in response to a string of characters which were previously changed or are not recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, John S. Langford
  • Patent number: 9196241
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for asynchronous communications. Embodiments include receiving a recorded message, the message recorded on a handheld device; converting the recorded message to text; identifying a recipient of the message in dependence upon the text; associating the message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text; and storing the message for transmission to another handheld device for the recipient. Embodiments also typically include recording a message on handheld device and transferring a media file containing the recorded message to a library management system. Embodiments also typically include transmitting message to another handheld device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jesse W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson
  • Patent number: 9135339
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for invoking an audio hyperlink. Embodiments include identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink; playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink at the predetermined playback time; receiving from a user an instruction to invoke the audio hyperlink; identifying a URI associated with the audio hyperlink; and invoking the URI. The audio file may include an audio subcomponent of a file also including video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jerry W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson
  • Patent number: 9130803
    Abstract: Control of collaborative devices, including providing at least two collaborative devices, wherein each collaborative device comprises a client device and an embedded Java server, providing a registry service to which the collaborative devices are coupled for data communications, and providing at least one registry table, wherein the registry table includes registry records, wherein the registry records include registry records representing capabilities of collaborative devices, wherein the registry records representing capabilities of collaborative devices include data elements describing, for each collaborative device, capabilities, tertiary relationships, and network connectivities. The method further includes providing a service bundle of OSGI-compliant Java servlets comprising at least one predetermined algorithm for controlling the collaborative devices, and controlling the collaborative devices in accordance with the predetermined algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Derral C. Thorson
  • Publication number: 20150242436
    Abstract: A mobile device accepts a selection of a file for opening or editing or both. The file is associated with a file type. A mobile application on the mobile device identifies the file type associated with the file. A request message is constructed that is indicative of the file type and one or more user credentials. The request message is sent to a cloud server. The mobile device receives an address for a selected cloud image from the cloud server and, in response thereto, connects to a remote processing environment in the selected cloud image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, Thomas E. Cook, David Jaramillo, Neil A. Katz
  • Patent number: 9092542
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for podcasting content associated with a user account. Embodiments include aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources; synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into a podcast capable of being rendered on a digital media player; and providing the podcast for download from a URL. Embodiments also typically include receiving a request for the podcast; and transmitting in response to the request the podcast in a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jerry W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson