Daniel Mark Schumacher

US Patent:

6532023, Mar 11, 2003

Filed:

Aug 12, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/373881

Inventors:

Daniel M. Schumacher - Austin TX
Thomas James Watson - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G09G 500

US Classification:

345704, 345700, 345749, 345762, 345764

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product for recording events that result from user interaction with the various components of an applet, such as a Java applet. An applet event recorder is invoked and associated with an applet, preferably via a graphical user interface. One or more types of events are then selected for recording via a recording options section of the graphical user interface. When a user interaction sequence with the applet occurs, events of the selected type are then detected by the applet event recorder. An automator of the applet event recorder then generates and stores the queued event objects in an automator queue. The automator then generates, presumably at a later time, constructed events from the queued events in the automator queue. The constructed events are then played back by posting them in the system queue thereby achieving the recording and playback of selected events.

US Patent:

6543011, Apr 1, 2003

Filed:

Jul 15, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/353949

Inventors:

Daniel Mark Schumacher - Austin TX
Thomas James Watson - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NJ

International Classification:

H02H 305

US Classification:

714 45, 709217, 345744

Abstract:

A method for recording events in Java. According to a preferred embodiment, an automator is attached to a Java applet. Responsive to selection by a user, listeners are added for each event type produced in the Java applet. Each time a specified event occurs, that event is captured and saved to a data structure. The recording of events is performed until the user stops the process.

US Patent:

6549216, Apr 15, 2003

Filed:

Aug 12, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/373883

Inventors:

Daniel M. Schumacher - Austin TX
Thomas James Watson - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G09G 500

US Classification:

345704, 345749, 345966, 345762, 345764

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product for preserving events generated from user interaction with an applet including the ability to record and manipulate delay information associated with the user interaction, sequence. User interaction events, including timing information associated with each event, are detected by the recorder via automator listeners. An automator then generates queued event objects including delay information computed from the timing information of each event where the delay information indicates the amount of time that elapsed between the posting of consecutive events during the original user interaction sequence. A timing mode is then selected from the mode section of a graphical user interface and an emulated sequent including a set of constructed objects produced by automator from the queued event objects is generated. The automator utilizes the delay information in queued event objects and the timing mode selected to produce an emulated sequence with a desired timing sequence. The timing mode may be selected from a group of timing modes including real time, in which events are played back with no alteration of the delay information, speed mode, in which events are played back with a delay that is a percentage of the original delay, where the percentage is selectable, and a delay mode, in which a constant delay is used in the emulated sequence of events regardless of the original delay.

US Patent:

6631345, Oct 7, 2003

Filed:

Aug 12, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/373880

Inventors:

Daniel M. Schumacher - Austin TX
Thomas James Watson - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1310

US Classification:

703 22, 703 14, 703 23

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product for emulating a sequence of events resulting from user interaction with an applet in which the storing and retrieval of queued event objects is facilitated through the use of an index to a component vector. When an applet event recorder is invoked and the applet selected, an automator initializes the applet and generates a component vector that includes a reference to each component of the applet. Events are then detected by the applet event recorder via automator listeners. The automator then generates queued event objects and stores the queued event objects in an automator queue. The generation of queued event objects in one embodiment includes the generation of a component index value that points to the component of component vector that references the applet component that was responsible for generating the corresponding user interaction event. When it is later desirable to emulate the recorded portions of the original user interaction sequence, the automator generates constructed objects from the queued event objects. If the emulation of the original sequence occurs when the instance of applet present during the original user interaction sequence is no longer present, the component vector is generated for a second time.

US Patent:

6961668, Nov 1, 2005

Filed:

Oct 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/692409

Inventors:

William Kress Bodin - Austin TX, US
Michael John Burkhart - Round Rock TX, US
Daniel G. Eisenhauer - Austin TX, US
Daniel Mark Schumacher - Pflugerville TX, US
Thomas J. Watson - Pflugerville TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F019/00
G05B019/00

US Classification:

702108, 340500, 340 552, 340 58, 340 582, 709201, 709224

Abstract:

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include methods for evaluating a test action for a user. Such methods include creating, within a network, a user metric vector in dependence upon a plurality of disparate user metrics, selecting a test action in dependence upon the user metric vector, executing the test action within the network, and determining a user reaction. Many embodiments also include adding the test action to a user's action list in dependence upon the user reaction. Other embodiments often include deleting the test action from an test action list in dependence upon the user reaction.

US Patent:

7151969, Dec 19, 2006

Filed:

Jun 26, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/607486

Inventors:

William Kress Bodin - Austin TX, US
Michael John Burkhart - Round Rock TX, US
Daniel G. Eisenhauer - Austin TX, US
Daniel Mark Schumacher - Pflugerville TX, US
Thomas J. Watson - Pflugerfville TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 19/00
G05B 19/00

US Classification:

700 83, 382116

Abstract:

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include methods for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space. If the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, such embodiments include creating in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list, identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list, executing the action, and determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action.

US Patent:

7162692, Jan 9, 2007

Filed:

Dec 11, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/733942

Inventors:

William Kress Bodin - Austin TX, US
Michael John Burkhart - Round Rock TX, US
Daniel G. Eisenhauer - Austin TX, US
Daniel Mark Schumacher - Pflugerville TX, US
Thomas J. Watson - Pflugerville TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/00

US Classification:

715513, 7155001, 715515, 715530, 704270

Abstract:

Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user. In some embodiments, selecting a classified structural element includes selecting a classified structural element in dependence upon the presentation action identifier and the parameters.

US Patent:

7165056, Jan 16, 2007

Filed:

Jul 25, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/627011

Inventors:

William Kress Bodin - Austin TX, US
Michael John Burkhart - Round Rock TX, US
Daniel G. Eisenhauer - Austin TX, US
Daniel Mark Schumacher - Pflugerville TX, US
Thomas J. Watson - Pflugerfville TX, US

Assignee:

Lenovo Singapore Pte, Ltd - Singapore

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06N 5/02

US Classification:

706 48, 706 47, 706 46

Abstract:

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary methods include receiving a plurality of user metrics, creating a relational metric in dependence upon the plurality of user metrics, creating a user metric vector comprising at least one user metric and at least one relational metric, creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space. If the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, exemplary embodiments include identifying an action, and executing the action.