Corinne M Ryan, 5654 Stagecoach Rd, Wilton, NH 03086

7765267, Jul 27, 2010

Apr 10, 2007

11/733714

Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US
Ruthie D. Lyle - Durham NC, US
Doris L. Jones - Somerville MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

709206, 715758

A mechanism for controlling the saving of an instant messaging session transcript to a log file. The system includes a session locking feature that allows a participant (e. g. the session initiator) to lock the entire contents of a session transcript saved into a log file. The system further includes a message locking features that allows a participant to selectively lock a specified portion the contents of the session transcript saved to a log file. The locking participant is able to indicate which other participants can unlock the content in the session transcript stored in the log file that they have locked, and those specified other participants are accordingly sent the necessary key to unlock such locked content. The system further allows users to subsequently request locks to unlock content in a session transcript stored in a log file, and for the locking participant to selectively allow or disallow such requests.

7847677, Dec 7, 2010

Oct 4, 2007

11/867183

Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US
Kimberly A. Frederick - Somerville MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G08B 3/10

3403845, 3403841, 715716, 715727, 715729

A system for providing auditory feedback to visually impaired users when defining visual models. As the visually impaired user creates a visual model, the system detects when an object is placed in such a way that it overlaps with at least one previously placed object. In response to detection of an overlap, the system causes an auditory warning signal to be produced, indicating to the visually impaired user that object is overlapping a previously placed object. The disclosed system operates to create an invisible object within the user interface to cause a warning to be output, or modifies the object whose placement caused the object overlap to include the overlap warning. The user interface focus is then changed or reset to be on the invisible object or the object that caused the overlap to occur, enabling the user to conveniently fix the overlap condition.

7890885, Feb 15, 2011

Aug 21, 2006

11/465844

Michael Muller - Medford MA, US
Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US
Michael Chi Hung Wu - Vancouver, CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 3/048

715808, 715760

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface navigation and provide a method, system and computer program product for content navigational shortcuts for portal environments. In one embodiment of the invention, a content navigational shortcut method can be provided. The method can include associating anchors with corresponding user interface elements in a markup language defined display. The method further can include listing references to a subset of the user interface elements in a quicklink list in the markup language defined display. Finally, the method can include setting focus in the markup language defined display to a corresponding one of the user interface elements at an associated one of the anchors in response to an activation of one of the references in the quicklink list.

7949952, May 24, 2011

Jun 26, 2007

11/768394

J. Christopher Hawley - Chelmsford MA, US
Fang Lu - Billerica MA, US
Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US
Weichuan Dong - Lowell MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 3/00

715751, 715753, 715758, 715752, 715810, 709204

A system for providing user representations in real-time collaboration application participant lists reflecting external communications, together with user representations in external communication applications indicating current real-time collaboration session participation. A participant list in a collaboration session represents other participants with whom the local user has recently or frequently communicated in a visually separate area. User representations associated with messages, entries, or the like, and contained in applications external to the collaboration application are displayed in a way that visually indicates the user's current participation in a collaboration session.

7953806, May 31, 2011

Aug 13, 2007

11/837965

Ruthie D. Lyle - Durham NC, US
Doris L. Jones - Sommerville MA, US
Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206, 709224, 709227, 709246, 709248, 715758

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to task management in an instant messenger and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for task assignment and progress monitoring in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of task assignment and progress monitoring in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include maintaining an instant messaging session between first and second collaborators, assigning a task to the second collaborator on request of the first collaborator from within the instant messaging session, the task specifying a third collaborator external to the instant messaging session, and providing subsequent notice to the first collaborator of collaborative interactions between the second and third collaborators in respect to the assigned task.

8095941, Jan 10, 2012

Sep 7, 2006

11/470677

Hong Dai - Westford MA, US
Corinne M Ryan - Westford MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/44
G06F 15/16

719328, 709206

A system for generating an electronic notice programmed to display a portion of a day out of the office notice. The system including an application server node configured to execute a personal information management application. An application programming interface is programmatically associated with the personal information management application for allowing requests for services to be transmitted to the personal information management application. At least one of a rich client delegate and a remote EJB housing the API, the rich client delegate and the remote EJB being programmatically associated with the application server node and the personal information management application. The rich client delegate being configured to receive and transmit data to the API via a network. At least one client node is operably associated with the application server node via the network. Each client node having a user interface (UI) that is programmatically associated with the personal information management application.

8108528, Jan 31, 2012

Jul 11, 2007

11/775990

Doris L. Jones - Somerville MA, US
Ruthie D. Lyle - Durham NC, US
Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709227, 709207, 709204, 709205, 709206, 715751, 715753, 715758, 715759, 715741, 715742, 715743

A system for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session. The identity of an instant messaging partner can be verified at any given moment during an instant messaging session. The status of the verification is displayed in the current session, and is contained into any subsequently saved session history file. Prior to the beginning of communication, a participant has the ability to challenge one or more other participants to verify that they are really the people assigned to the corresponding instant messaging identifiers. During the instant messaging session, participants are further allowed to challenge any other participant before going further with the session (e. g. prior to discussing confidential information or accepting files). The system addresses the problem of an unauthorized user gaining access to another user's instant messaging identifier.

8122342, Feb 21, 2012

Mar 28, 2008

12/058324

Christopher J. Karle - Wayland MA, US
Corinne M. Ryan - Westford MA, US
Richard S. Schwerdtfeger - Round Rock TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/00
G06F 9/44

715234, 715205, 715255, 715760, 715762, 717106, 717162, 717114

A mechanism is provided for enforcing accessible content development. The mechanism enforces accessible content development by accessing a tag library descriptor for each of a plurality of markup tags for web content authoring where the tag library descriptor notes one or more tag sub-elements required for accessibility. The mechanism analyzes each markup tag in a piece of web content by comparing the tag library descriptor accessibility requirements to sub-elements included with each markup tag to determine whether all required accessibility sub-elements are present. The mechanism generates an error message if all required accessibility sub-elements of a markup tag are not present.