Li Chen

7657602, Feb 2, 2010

Jan 30, 2006

11/343143

Li Chen - Cary NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

C06F 17/20

709206, 709204, 709207

A system, computer program and method for reducing communication errors in a messaging system. One embodiment of the invention involves delaying the transmission of a message to a discussion participant for a period of time. If a time countdown expires before activation of a message edit control, the message is transmitted to the discussion participant. If the message edit control is activated, the time countdown is terminated and the message is presented for modification without transmission of the message to the discussion participant. Another embodiment of the invention includes displaying a first user interface for communicating messages with a first person and a second user interface for communicating messages with a second person. An alert is provided when messaging activity has switched from the first user interface to the second user interface.

7933960, Apr 26, 2011

Dec 28, 2007

11/966944

Li Chen - Cary NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Cary NC, US
Lun Xiao - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206, 709202, 709203, 709226, 709229

A system and method for identifying an unknown word's likely definition based upon a common social networking group is presented. A user receives a message and selects an unknown word in the message. In turn, the recipient client identifies a common social networking group between the sending client and the recipient client. The recipient client then uses the common social networking group to identify the unknown word's definitions using one or more unknown word repositories, such as the sending client unknown word repository, the recipient client unknown word repository, or a mutual client unknown word repository, which corresponds to a mutual client included in the common social networking group. Once the recipient client identifies the unknown word's definitions, the recipient client orders and displays the definitions based upon the common social networking group and social networking group frequency values.

7979500, Jul 12, 2011

Nov 19, 2009

12/622013

Li Chen - Cary NC, US
John R. Hind - Raleigh NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Cary NC, US
Lun Xiao - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206

A computer implemented user interface allows composition of an electronic mail message. A user selects at least one pre-existing email from an email inbox. An envelope is then created by parsing each of the selected pre-existing emails. The pre-existing email is displayed as a tree structure comprising an envelope with at least a label sub-node in a new email view. A new email is composed by selecting parts from the tree structure. The sub-nodes may further comprise a content sub-node. The content sub-node further comprises multi-media parts, and the new email body is composed by selecting parts from the content sub-node.

8126762, Feb 28, 2012

Apr 2, 2008

12/061029

Bala Ramachandran - Harrison NY, US
Li Chen - Palo Alto CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

705 728

A stabilization methodology and system component in Business Activity Monitoring and Management systems. This enables firms to use Business Activity Management (BAM) systems to manage business activity by only responding to monitored data when the overall business performance can be improved. This enables firms to identify appropriate tradeoffs between potentially conflicting objectives while meeting business objectives. Information from BAM systems are analyzed based on models of the business process and different information filter criteria are assessed for their impact on business performance indicators. Based on this, a filter criterion is chosen which is executed by an information filter. The outputs from the information filter are used as the basis for deciding the inputs for business process execution.

8224901, Jul 17, 2012

Dec 14, 2009

12/636909

John Hind - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Li Chen - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Lun Xiao - Durham NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 13/00

709205, 709206, 709219

A server system runs a bot service that registers an FAQ (frequently asked questions) for a document having an embedded object. The FAQ includes one or more question-and-answer (Q&A) pairs. The bot service receives, from each electronics device that renders a copy of the document, a request from the embedded object for the FAQ registered for the document, and transmits the FAQ to each electronic device from which a request is received. Each electronics device displays the FAQ, including the one or more Q&A pairs, within its rendered copy of the document. Any viewer of a copy of the document with the embedded object can submit a question to the bot service through the embedded object. The bot service uses a messaging service to obtain an answer to the question from an author. The FAQs displayed at the electronics devices are updated to include the new Q&A pair.

8364763, Jan 29, 2013

Aug 3, 2007

11/833845

Li Chen - Cary NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Cary NC, US
Lun Xiao - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709206, 709224

In a method and system for removing email forwarding duplication, when an email was sent for the first time, the email was assigned a unique identifier. An aggregate recipient list was created and associated with the unique identifier. When the email is to be forwarded, the aggregate recipient list has recipients previously forwarded the email. The recipient list of the forwarding email is compared with the aggregate recipient list. If duplicate email addresses are found, the duplicate email addresses are displayed to a sender of the forwarding email. If the sender chooses not to send the forwarding email to the duplicate email addresses, the duplicate email addresses are removed from the recipient list of the forwarding email. New recipients of the forwarding email are added to the aggregate recipient list. The forwarding email with the unique identifier is sent to the recipient list.

8468203, Jun 18, 2013

May 16, 2012

13/472727

John Hind - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Li Chen - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Lun Xiao - Durham NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 13/00

709205, 709219, 709224

A server system runs a bot service that registers an FAQ (frequently asked questions) for a document having an embedded object. The FAQ includes one or more question-and-answer (Q&A) pairs. The bot service receives, from each electronics device that renders a copy of the document, a request from the embedded object for the FAQ registered for the document, and transmits the FAQ to each electronic device from which a request is received. Each electronics device displays the FAQ, including the one or more Q&A pairs, within its rendered copy of the document. Any viewer of a copy of the document with the embedded object can submit a question to the bot service through the embedded object. The bot service uses a messaging service to obtain an answer to the question from an author. The FAQs displayed at the electronics devices are updated to include the new Q&A pair.

8503652, Aug 6, 2013

Apr 13, 2007

11/735255

Li Chen - Cary NC, US
Yongcheng Li - Cary NC, US
Lun Xiao - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04M 3/42
H04M 1/00
H04L 12/16
H04Q 11/00

37920201, 379158, 370260, 370261, 455416

Conference calls are managed using a permanent or default password associated with a particular call-in phone number and at least one temporary, dynamically-generated password for that same call-in phone number. The temporary passwords are preferably applicable for a particular time period or interval. If a temporary password is not defined for the time period in which a conference call takes place, the default password may be used. Conference call access is restricted to participants who provide the proper password—namely, the temporary password during a time period for which a temporary password has been generated, and the default password otherwise.