ROBERT A. FOSTER, M.D.
Radiology at Seton Center Pkwy, Austin, TX

5878417, Mar 2, 1999

Nov 20, 1996

8/753083

Wayne Ross Baldwin - Cedar Park TX
Carol Sue Christensen - Austin TX
Robert Kimberlin Foster - Austin TX
Athanasios Gaitatzes - Austin TX
Sharad Janardhan Naik - Austin TX
Richard Dennis Talbot - Austin TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707 10

A method and apparatus for improving security for a workstation accessing network resources through a web browser interface. A three step procedure is provided on the workstation for testing the origin and filetype extensions of command files, retrieved by a web browser, to determine whether they may be executed on the workstation. Step one of the invention consists of creating a non-standard command filetype extension on the workstation to be protected. This is followed by step two which isolates specific network or system resources for all approved command files. Finally, step three protects the command file contents and sub-directory locations on the protected workstation. The invention grants execute permission for an application file command files only when all three conditions of the above steps are met.

7171417, Jan 30, 2007

Sep 30, 2003

10/675741

Ping Chen - Austin TX, US
Robert Kimberlin Foster - Austin TX, US
Joy Mei-Jen Underhill - Round Rock TX, US
Christine I. Wang - Pflugerville TX, US
Quan Wang - Austin TX, US
Xiaodong Xia - Round Rock TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707 10

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for improving performance and scalability of common information model object (CIMOM) by using a hardware management console (HMC) repository. The HMC repository includes storage of HMC objects, an HMC object model and a common interface (CIM Wrapper) for accessing to HMC objects. The HMC object model allows the user to store and retrieve the CIM objects and their associations efficiently. A CIM provider may access HMC objects through a common interface (CIM Wrapper), so that different repositories are allowed to be used without significant changes to the underlying server code (CIM provider). A CIM provider may also call the HMC repository directly for more efficient operations because the number of times conversions made between the CIM object and the repository object are greatly decreased.

7096220, Aug 22, 2006

May 21, 2001

09/862814

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

G06F 7/00, G06F 15/16

707 10, 707 3, 7071041, 707201, 709201

A web-based customer lead harvesting system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet. The users, who are typically business enterprises, may access the system to search unstructured Internet data to obtain leads for prospective customers. The system accepts criteria from the user that describes a type or types of potential customers, as well as addresses of Internet sites of interest. A crawler process retrieves the web site data, and stores the data in a web archive. A harvester process then searches the Internet data according to the client-provided criteria. The system returns the names or the identifying information about the prospect together with a link to the document that verifies the prospect's match to the criteria.

7315861, Jan 1, 2008

Jul 11, 2005

11/178721

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

G06F 17/30

707 10, 707 3, 7071041, 707204, 705 10, 705 14, 709206, 709219

A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from various Internet sources, a database for storing the extracted data, a text mining server that executes query-based searches of the database, and an output repository. A web server provides client access to the repository, and to the mining server.

6829714, Dec 7, 2004

Mar 1, 2001

09/798168

Timothy Albert Smith - Austin TX
John Kwangil Chang - Austin TX
Robert Kimberlin Foster - Austin TX
Thomas Alois Kriz - Cedar Park TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 126

713330, 713600, 713 1

A method and system for providing a timed power-on of logical partitions in a logical partition computer system is disclosed. An operator is allowed to enter a timed power-on value (TPO) value representing a time to boot one or more of the logical partitions. The TPO value for each of the logical partitions is then stored in nonvolatile memory. The system time is then periodically compared with each of the TPO values, and the corresponding partition is booted when the system time is greater than or equal to the TPO value.

7003517, Feb 21, 2006

May 24, 2001

09/865735

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

iNetProfit, Inc. - Austin TX

G06F 17/30

707 6, 707 3, 707 10, 7071041, 705 10, 709203, 709219

A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from various Internet sources, a database for storing the extracted data, a text mining server that executes query-based searches of the database, and an output repository. A web server provides client access to the repository, and to the mining server.

7565398, Jul 21, 2009

Jun 27, 2002

10/185695

Shamsundar Ashok - Austin TX, US
Robert Kimberlin Foster - Austin TX, US
Walter Manfred Lipp - Georgetown TX, US
Minh Nguyen - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709203, 709201, 709202, 714 3

A method, system and apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring partitions of a partitioned computer system are provided. Here, dynamically reconfiguring a partition is defined as being able to reconfigure the partition while the partition is operational. Using a graphical user interface (GUI), a user may indicate a plurality of resources that are to be involved in a partition reconfiguration. However, the partition is actually reconfigured one resource at a time. If one of the resources is memory, then memory is allocated to the partition or de-allocated from the partition one logical memory block (LMB) at a time. In reconfiguring partitions, resources may be removed, added or moved from one partition to another. Moving resources from one partition to another entails removing the resources from one partition and adding it to the other partition. After a partition re-configuration, a resource allocation table is updated.

7082427, Jul 25, 2006

May 24, 2001

09/865805

John C Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

G06F 17/30

707 4, 707 6, 707 10, 7071041, 709203, 705 26

A text indexing system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text indexing system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from various Internet sources, a database for storing the extracted data, a text indexing server that executes keyword searches of the database, and an output repository. A web server provides client access to the repository, and to the indexing server.

7401332, Jul 15, 2008

Jan 9, 2003

10/339762

Robert Kimberlin Foster - Austin TX, US
Mark Wayne Grosch - Lakeway TX, US
Minh Nguyen - Austin TX, US
Christine Iju Wang - Pflugerville TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/445, G06F 3/00

717175, 717169, 710 10

A system and method are provided to allow a user to update a computer system without having to interact with an initialization, or configurator software utility, or program. More particularly, the present invention allows a system provider, manufacturer, or service provider to create an installation file that, when provided to a user, will configure a system to accommodate newly added/removed hardware automatically. A base model and a new model of the system are maintained. The new model will include one or more different configurations, such as new graphics adapters, communications adapters, I/O controllers, or the like. The provider will have created a recovery/install image to be used with the base model. An operating system including a configurator program will be running on both the base model system and new model system. Software, such as device drivers, to be used with the new model's changed hardware configuration is installed on the new model system and initialized using its configurator program.