Patents by Inventor Xiaoying Qi

Xiaoying Qi 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: 8433753
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for providing meeting information from a meeting server to an email server to store in an email database. A meeting database has information on scheduled meetings. A meeting server manages access to the meeting database. The meeting server calls an email server to provide information on meetings from the meeting database to an email database including email accounts and calendars of scheduled events for users. The email server manages access to the email database. The email server stores the provided information on the meetings in the email database in response to the call from the meeting server. The email server updates the calendar of scheduled events in the email database for one of the users to include information from the email database on at least one meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Xiaoying Qi
  • Patent number: 8171104
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for scheduling and searching meetings in a network environment. A form is transmitted over a network to be rendered at an organizer computer to enable entry of information on a meeting. The form is received having organizer entered information on one meeting. The information in the received form is stored in a meeting database, wherein the stored information from the received form is associated with the meeting identified in the received form. A user computer accessed by a user is enabled to register for at least one selected meeting. An email database accessed by the user is updated automatically to include information on the at least one selected meeting indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Xiaoying Qi
  • Publication number: 20070143412
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for providing meeting information from a meeting server to an email server to store in an email database. A meeting database has information on scheduled meetings. A meeting server manages access to the meeting database. The meeting server calls an email server to provide information on meetings from the meeting database to an email database including email accounts and calendars of scheduled events for users. The email server manages access to the email database. The email server stores the provided information on the meetings in the email database in response to the call from the meeting server. The email server updates the calendar of scheduled events in the email database for one of the users to include information from the email database on at least one meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventor: Xiaoying Qi
  • Publication number: 20070143399
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for scheduling and searching meetings in a network environment. A form is transmitted over a network to be rendered at an organizer computer to enable entry of information on a meeting. The form is received having organizer entered information on one meeting. The information in the received form is stored in a meeting database, wherein the stored information from the received form is associated with the meeting identified in the received form. A user computer accessed by a user is enabled to register for at least one selected meeting. An email database accessed by the user is updated automatically to include information on the at least one selected meeting indicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventor: Xiaoying Qi