WILLIAM EVERETT BROWN
Pilots at Tanglewood Dr, Raleigh, NC

2010007, Mar 18, 2010

Sep 18, 2008

12/233156

William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Kerrie L. Holley - Montara CA, US
Garrison A. Moore - Uxbridge, CA
William J. Tegan - Oakland CA, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

H04L 9/00

726 1

Methods and systems for governing service identification in an SOA governance model according to embodiments of the present invention are provided. Embodiments include receiving a set of input parameters for identifying candidate services for the SOA; determining whether the set of input parameters comply with a predetermined input parameter validation policy. If the set of input parameters comply with a predetermined input parameter validation policy, governing service identification includes identifying in dependence upon the set of input parameters one or more candidate services available for the SOA in existing SOA business applications and determining whether each candidate services available in existing SOA business applications comply with a predetermined service selection policy. If one of the candidate services available in existing SOA business applications complies with a predetermined service selection policy, governing service identification includes selecting the candidate service as a service available for the SOA and communicating the identification of that selected service to relevant stakeholders in the SOA.

2004001, Jan 22, 2004

Jul 18, 2002

10/199244

William Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Richard Muirhead - Tyler TX, US
Francis Reddington - Sarasota FL, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

G06F003/00

710/019000

The present invention provides a method and system to monitor the statuses of devices that operate in a network environment such as a physical facility from a central location. In this system, there is a repository of the status of all designated device attributes of a device including the past state history of the device. Each device on the system will transmit a state change notification to the central location each time the status of the device changes. This status change will be recorded in the storage location. The implementation of a centralized configuration also provides each device, product and smart application a common interface to use to transmit messages or information to other devices in the same facility of devices that are connected to the same central location. It also enables devices to recover to a previous state or reset devices to a present state in the event of a power outage.

7103420, Sep 5, 2006

Jul 18, 2002

10/199246

William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Richard William Muirhead - Tyler TX, US
Francis Xavier Reddington - Sarasota FL, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G05B 19/04

700 19, 700 12, 700 23, 709223, 709224, 725 79, 340 31, 34082552

The present invention provides a method and system to monitor the statuses of devices that can operate and transmit current device status information to a storage location. In this system, there is a can be a central storage location of the status of all designated device attributes of a device including the past state history of the device. The storage location can also be distributed and in one or more remote locations. Each device on the system will transmit a state change notification to the central location each time the status of the device changes. This status change will be recorded in the location storage. The present invention provides for the creation of sets of instructions to enable the initiation of operations by devices in response to a set of current statuses of one or more devices. Each workflow routine will be based on a set device statuses. This set of device statuses can be referred as a device scenario.

2012031, Dec 6, 2012

Aug 12, 2012

13/572670

William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Kerrie L. Holley - Montara CA, US
Garrison A. Moore - Uxbridge, CA
William J. Tegan - Oakland CA, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

G06Q 10/06

705 737

Defining service ownership for an SOA including defining, in response to an event requiring a change in service ownership and in dependence upon data describing business functions within a business, a service domain; reviewing, by a service domain ownership review board, the defined service domain for approval; upon approval of the defined service domain, identifying potential impact upon currently existing service domains caused by implementation of the defined service domain; identifying a potential owner of the defined service domain in dependence upon a service type of the defined service domain and funding requirements of the service domain; presenting, to relevant stakeholders in the business, the potential owner of the defined service domain for approval; and upon approval of the potential owner of the defined service domain, assigning the potential owner of the defined service domain responsibility for managing the defined service domain.

2004001, Jan 22, 2004

Jul 18, 2002

10/199277

William Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Richard Muirhead - Tyler TX, US
Francis Reddington - Sarasota FL, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

G06F003/00

710/019000

The present invention is implemented in the context of a system that monitors the statuses of devices that operate in a network environment such as a physical facility from a central location. In this system, there is a depository of the status of all designated device attributes of a device including the past state history of the device. Each device on the system will transmit a state change notification to the central location each time the status of the device changes. In the process of the present invention, the central manger installs a publish routine on the newly added device to the network that would enable the device to asynchronously transmit to the state manager a status change each time a status change occurred with the device. A status change can be defined by a change in any one parameter or a combination of parameters. This status change will be recorded in a storage location for particular device.

8010700, Aug 30, 2011

Nov 1, 2005

11/264716

William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Richard W. Muirhead - Tyler TX, US
Francis X. Reddington - Richmond VA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709244, 709204, 709240

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow scenario; executing the workflow; identifying a user reaction to the execution of the workflow; identifying an unsuccessful device-controlling action in dependence upon the user reaction; and modifying the workflow in dependence upon the identified unsuccessful device-controlling action. Typical embodiment also include recording, as a representation of a negative user reaction, a determined change between the device attribute value set by executing the workflow and the current value of the device attribute in a user reaction log.

8102334, Jan 24, 2012

Nov 15, 2007

11/940850

William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Richard W. Muirhead - Tyler TX, US
Francis X. Reddington - Sarasota FL, US
Martin A. Wolfe - Alpharetta GA, US

International Businesss Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G09G 5/00

345 8, 345 9

Augmenting reality for a user including creating a model of a region of the user's environment in a direction of the user's field of vision; determining, in dependence upon the model of the region of the user's environment, that an object located within the user's environment is invisible to the user; determining, in dependence upon the direction of the user's field of vision, the object's location, and the model of the region of the user's environment, a location to display a representation of the object on a transparent display in front of the user's field of vision; and displaying the representation of the object at the determined location on the transparent display in front of the user's field of vision.

2012006, Mar 15, 2012

Sep 15, 2010

12/882662

Subrata Adhikary - Sandy Springs GA, US
Abdul Allam - Raleigh NC, US
Harish Bharti - Pune, IN
William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

G06Q 10/00

705348

Modeling the governance process of reviewing service artifacts associated with a service in the SOA and generating, in dependence upon the modeled governance process, one or more automation modules, each automation module including a module of computer program instructions that, when executed by a computer processor, supports performance of one or more steps of the modeled governance process, where the modeled governance process includes preparing one or more service artifacts associated with the service for review, submitting the service artifacts for review, and reviewing the service artifacts.

8090853, Jan 3, 2012

Dec 1, 2009

12/628301

William A. Brown - Raleigh NC, US
Daniel D. Carr - Beaverton OR, US
Richard William Muirhead - Tyler TX, US
Francis Xavier Reddington - Sarasota FL, US
Martin Andrew Wolfe - Mooresville NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16, G06F 7/04

709229, 726 4

A data access control method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor from a requestor, a request for access to data. The computer processor extracts from the request, a requestor identification string associated with the requestor. The computer processor verifies a match for the requestor identification string, a service requestor identification string, a requestor software component operating process identification string, a requestor server identification string, a requestor hardware device network address and a requestor MAC address, and a requestor hardware device identification string against a plurality of registries. The computer processor generates an access point door associated with a specified logical storage room representation comprising the data. The computer processor enables access to the data via the access point door and the specified logical storage room representation based on enabling a logical lock with a logical key and a valid timestamp.