Paul Moody80 Clay St, Quincy, MA 02170

7359936, Apr 15, 2008

Jan 27, 2003

10/351862

Daniel M. Gruen - Newton MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Londonderry NH, US
Bernard Kerr - Cambridge MA, US
Steve L. Rohall - Winchester MA, US
Seymour Kellerman - Cambridge MA, US
John Patterson - Carlisle MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/173

709203

An electronic mail inbox uses a mail agent to categorize incoming electronic mail to facilitate more flexible and rapid viewing and possible response thereto. Several special functions for collection of regularly sent types of mail, such as newsletters, office memos, press releases, etc. , are utilized. In addition, special menu items are provided for collection and presentation of different priority items, such as urgent correspondence and approval requests. The electronic mail inbox facilitates multiple viewing options so that collections of regularly sent or different priority types of mail may be viewed separately and/or interleaved with other items in a main mail inbox. In addition, items that require an affirmative response, such as approval requests, may include a special preview format that allows for rapid viewing of pertinent details and approval directly from the mail inbox without review of the complete item.

7392280, Jun 24, 2008

Dec 23, 2002

10/328455

Steven L. Rohall - Winchester MA, US
Derek Lam - Arlington MA, US
Mia Stern - Andover MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US
Daniel M. Gruen - Newton MA, US
Christopher M. Schmandt - Winchester MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/00

709201, 715500, 715514

The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically. The summary may be further augmented to list any names, dates, and names of companies that are present in the electronic mail message being summarized.

7406455, Jul 29, 2008

Jan 17, 2002

10/051450

Daniel M. Gruen - Newton MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US
Steven L. Rohall - Winchester MA, US
Seymour Kellerman - Cambridge MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/00
G06N 5/00

706 47, 706 46, 706 45, 717117

The present invention comprises a method and software for recognizing and flagging a data item used by one or more application program as falling within the scope of a rule but anomalous when compared with other data items falling within the scope of the rule. The method of the present invention comprises determining a collection to which the data item belongs as defined by the rule. The collection that the data item belongs to is analyzed to calculate statistics regarding the other data items that are part of the collection. Based on the statistical calculations, it is determined whether the data item is an anomalous data item. If the data item is identified as an anomalous data item, it is flagged.

7421664, Sep 2, 2008

Dec 29, 2003

10/745487

Martin M. Wattenberg - Winchester MA, US
Jodi L. Coppinger - Merrimack NH, US
Bernard J. Kerr - Boston MA, US
Darrell J. Loverin - Boxborough MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 3/048

715823, 715772, 715821, 715829

A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories.

7747690, Jun 29, 2010

Dec 29, 2003

10/745499

Carl J. Kraenzel - Boston MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US
Daniel M. Gruen - Newton MA, US
Christof Lucking - Chelmsford MA, US
Jodi L. Coppinger - Merrimack NH, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206, 709217

A method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e. g. , “Fromm,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either transmitted from or received at a predetermined network node (e. g. , a client or server). Electronic mail addresses stored in the virtual address book may be made available to “auto-complete” capabilities utilized during the addressing of electronic mail messages.

7849147, Dec 7, 2010

Mar 16, 2008

12/049356

Steven L. Rohall - Winchester MA, US
Derek Lam - Arlington MA, US
Mia Stern - Andover MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US
Daniel M. Gruen - Newton MA, US
Christopher M. Schmandt - Winchester MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206

The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically. The summary may be further augmented to list any names, dates, and names of companies that are present in the electronic mail message being summarized.

7853574, Dec 14, 2010

Aug 26, 2004

10/926735

Carl J. Kraenzel - Boston MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US
Joann Ruvolo - San Jose CA, US
Thomas P. Moran - Palo Alto CA, US
Justin T. Lessler - Baltimore MD, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707705, 707706, 707723, 707769, 707770, 707771

A method of generating a context-inferenced search query and of sorting a result of the query is described. The method includes analyzing an event associated with the user to determine a contextual setting, dynamically generating a search query based on the contextual setting, and searching at least one information source using the search query to generate a search result. Additionally, the method includes calculating an importance value for each item of the search result, sorting the items of the search result according the importance value, and displaying the sorted search result to the user.

7865560, Jan 4, 2011

Mar 17, 2008

12/049824

Steven L. Rohall - Winchester MA, US
Derek Lam - Arlington MA, US
Mia Stern - Andover MA, US
Paul B. Moody - Hyde Park VT, US
Daniel M. Gruen - Newton MA, US
Christopher M. Schmandt - Winchester MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206

The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically. The summary may be further augmented to list any names, dates, and names of companies that are present in the electronic mail message being summarized.