Hoa T Tran

US Patent:

7502809, Mar 10, 2009

Filed:

Oct 14, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/965185

Inventors:

Jordi A. Albornoz - Arlington MA, US
Brian J. Cragun - Rochester MN, US
Christine A. Grev - Rochester MN, US
Hoa T. Tran - Rochester MN, US
David A. Wall - Rochester MN, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707102, 707100, 707103, 7071041

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for proving global annotation services are disclosed. Global annotations are used to annotate a data element independently from the internal representation of a data element employed by a particular software application. Data elements are normalized into a form used by a global annotation system to identify the data element, and corresponding global annotations, independent from the application in which the data element may appear. An annotation cache may be used to store the global annotations that have been created for a particular data source, improving the efficiency of the global annotation system.

US Patent:

8230326, Jul 24, 2012

Filed:

Dec 17, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/016221

Inventors:

Jordi A. Albornoz - Cambridge MA, US
Lee D. Feigenbaum - Brookline MA, US
Douglas R. Fish - Rochester MN, US
Sean J. Martin - Cambridge MA, US
Hoa T. Tran - Rochester MN, US
David A. Wall - Rochester MN, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715231, 715229, 715230, 715232

Abstract:

The present invention generally provides methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing an annotation system that includes storing annotations for a document family, i. e. , a series of versions of a data source. Annotations created for one version of the data source may be viewed in context from both subsequent and prior versions of the same data source. Embodiments of the invention associate annotations with both a data source “family identifier” as well as a “version identifier. ” Other than adding a family ID to the data source, the data source remains unchanged. The family ID is maintained across different versions of the data source, whereas version IDs are determined for a specific version of the data source. Version IDs can be constructed from each data source directly, and do not need to be stored.

US Patent:

20080222512, Sep 11, 2008

Filed:

May 23, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/126167

Inventors:

Jordi A. Albornoz - Cambridge MA, US
Lee D. Feigenbaum - Brookline MA, US
Douglas R. Fish - Rochester MN, US
Sean J. Martin - Cambridge MA, US
Hoa T. Tran - Rochester MN, US
David A. Wall - Rochester MN, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/24

US Classification:

715230

Abstract:

The present invention generally provides methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing an annotation system that includes storing annotations for a document family, i.e., a series of versions of a data source. Annotations created for one version of the data source may be viewed in context from both subsequent and prior versions of the same data source. Embodiments of the invention associate annotations with both a data source “family identifier” as well as a “version identifier.” Other than adding a family ID to the data source, the data source remains unchanged. The family ID is maintained across different versions of the data source, whereas version IDs are determined for a specific version of the data source. Version IDs can be constructed from each data source directly, and do not need to be stored.