Mark A Peters

US Patent:

7735730, Jun 15, 2010

Filed:

May 24, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/420040

Inventors:

Carlos Antonio Lorenzo Hoyos - Morrisville NC, US
Marcelo Perazolo - Cary NC, US
Viswanath Srikanth - Chapel Hill NC, US
Mark E. Peters - Chapel Hill NC, US
Andrea Jean Watkins Moryadas - Brattleboro VT, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06K 5/00

US Classification:

235384, 705 1, 705 35, 705 40, 714 3, 714 17, 714 57

Abstract:

A system and method for state-based execution and recovery in a payment system is presented. A payment system uses a state machine to track completed sub-tasks using a state progress identifier and completion state data. When a failure occurs, stored completion state data and the state progress identifier indicate the last successfully completed sub-task. As such, when the payment system resumes payment operation execution after a failure, the state machine retrieves the stored completion state data and state progress identifier, and resumes execution based upon the retrieved information. As a result, the payment system continues payment operation execution at a point as to not duplicate the payment operation's previously completed sub-tasks.

US Patent:

20070078764, Apr 5, 2007

Filed:

Oct 4, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/243088

Inventors:

Carlos Hoyos - Morrisville NC, US
Andrea Watkins Moryadas - Brattleboro VT, US
Marcelo Perazolo - Cary NC, US
Mark Peters - Chapel Hill NC, US
Viswanath Srikanth - Chapel Hill NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705040000

Abstract:

Embodiments of the invention can include an online commerce system, method and computer program product configured for scalable lazy payment capture. The system can include an online commerce system configured for communicative coupling with a merchant account system and one or more customers over a data communications network. The system further can include scalable lazy payment capture logic coupled to the online commerce system. The scalable lazy payment capture logic can include program code enabled to selectively apply lazy payment capture to partial payments for authorized payment amounts for different customers using multiple different payment methods

US Patent:

20070276766, Nov 29, 2007

Filed:

Jul 8, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/456189

Inventors:

Carlos Antonio Lorenzo Hoyos - Morrisville NC, US
Marcelo Perazolo - Cary NC, US
Mark E. Peters - Chapel Hill NC, US
Viswanath Srikanth - Chapel Hill NC, US
Andrea Jean Watkins Moryadas - Brattleboro VT, US

International Classification:

G06Q 99/00

US Classification:

705 75

Abstract:

A system and method for preventing multiple charges for a transaction in a payment system is presented. A payment system receives a payment operation request from the order system, and determines whether the payment operation is a duplication of a previous payment operation request. If so, the payment system retrieves stored financial transaction results and provides the financial transaction results to the order system. When the payment operation request is not a duplicate, the payment system contacts a payment provider to receive financial transaction results, which is passed to the order system and stored in a persistent data store.

US Patent:

20080250478, Oct 9, 2008

Filed:

Apr 5, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/697057

Inventors:

Steven M. Miller - Cary NC, US
Sudhakar Nagarajan - Cary NC, US
Mark E. Peters - Chapel Hill NC, US

International Classification:

H04L 9/32

US Classification:

726 5

Abstract:

Public access to a network is provided through wireless access points, which may simultaneously support secured network access; in preferred embodiments, the access points are routers (such as “WiFi” routers). Accordingly, a router is configured with a public access profile (or profiles), which may be selectively enabled or disabled. When enabled, the router sends out an identifier that can be used to associate a client device with a public (i.e., unauthenticated) access path through the router to a network. The router also sends out a conventional identifier that can be used to associate another client device with a secured (i.e., authenticated) access path through the router, where the public and secured access paths are usable simultaneously by clients of the router.

US Patent:

20100205626, Aug 12, 2010

Filed:

Feb 10, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/368644

Inventors:

Steven M. Miller - Cary NC, US
Mark E. Peters - Chapel Hill NC, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/16
H04H 60/33

US Classification:

725 9, 455 201

Abstract:

The present invention is directed to a system, method and program product for identifying and downloading broadcast programming. Systems are disclosed that include a media device structured to receive and sample broadcast programming, and an identification service including an electronic library. The media device may include a receiver operable to receive the broadcast programming and media device information; a memory operable to save the received broadcast programming and media device information; a sampling device operable to replay and sample the received broadcast programming; and a transmitter operable to transmit the sampled broadcast programming and the media device information. The identification service may be structured to receive the sampled broadcast programming and the media device information, compare the sampled broadcast programming and the media device information with library information stored in the electronic library, and retrieve at least one of a matching broadcast programming and identification information about the broadcast programming.

US Patent:

20100317304, Dec 16, 2010

Filed:

Jun 15, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/484300

Inventors:

Lama R. Abouchakra - Apex NC, US
Al Chakra - Apex NC, US
Lisa Seacat DeLuca - San Francisco CA, US
Ravi K. Kosaraju - Middle Island NY, US
Julie A. Meserve - Raleigh NC, US
Stephen M. Meserve - Raleigh NC, US
Steven M. Miller - Cary NC, US
Mark E. Peters - Chapel Hill NC, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04B 17/00
H04B 7/08

US Classification:

455134, 455140, 4551851

Abstract:

A system and method of controlling a portable radio may involve tuning a first receiver of the portable radio to a first broadcast from a first station, where the first broadcast includes specific program content. A switching event can be detected at the portable radio, where a second receiver of the portable radio may be tuned to a second broadcast from a second station in response to the switching event. The second broadcast can include the specific program content.

US Patent:

6058484, May 2, 2000

Filed:

Oct 9, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/947952

Inventors:

Richard Alan Chapman - Cary NC
Mark E. Peters - Chapel Hill NC
Parley Avery Salmon - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

713202

Abstract:

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for selecting from a plurality of items of date limited information an item of date limited information for transmission from a first data processing system having a first time and date to a second data processing system having a second time and date by selecting an item of date limited information if both a beginning and an end of a validity period of the date limited information are sufficiently distant from the first time and date.