Jussi Petri Myllymaki

6718324, Apr 6, 2004

Jan 30, 2003

10/354751

Stefan B. Edlund - San Jose CA
Michael L. Emens - San Jose CA
Reiner Kraft - Gilroy CA
Jussi Myllymaki - San Jose CA
Shanghua Teng - Sunnyvale CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707 5, 707 1, 707 3, 707 10

A system and method of metadata search ranking is disclosed. The present invention utilizes a combination of popularity and/or relevancy to determine a search ranking for a given search result association. Given the exponential growth rate currently being experienced in the Internet community, the present invention provides one of the few methods by which searches of this vast distributed database can produce useful results ranked and sorted by usefulness to the searching web surfer. The present invention permits embodiments incorporating a Ranking System/Method ( ) further comprising a Session Manager ( ), Query Manager ( ), Popularity Sorter ( ), and Association ( ) functions. These components may be augmented in some preferred embodiments via the use of a Query Entry means ( ), Search Engine ( ); Data Repository ( ), Query Database ( ), and/or a Resource List ( ).

6757678, Jun 29, 2004

Apr 12, 2001

09/834965

Jussi Petri Myllymaki - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707 6

An automated system and associated method for building a comprehensive database of a configurable entity that is available from one or more Web sites, while removing redundancies. The system merges data tree structures that contain redundant data into more tractable data tree structures where those redundancies have been removed. More specifically, a feature of the present system is to automate the process of collecting information from one or more Web sites and convert the raw data into a logically fashioned, non-redundant tree structure. Advantageously, Web users would be able to retrieve information stored on one or more Web pages and locally merge the data.

6823190, Nov 23, 2004

Dec 3, 2002

10/065949

Daniel Alexander Ford - Los Gatos CA
James Harvey Kaufman - San Jose CA
Jussi Petri Myllymaki - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04Q 720

4554563, 4554561, 4554562, 4554143, 342458

Described is a way for computing proximity (location-based proximity or preference-based proximity) between mobile wireless subscribers (who use different services) without either divulging their location/preference to the other (preservation of privacy). Privacy is kept by providing location/preference information in steps, along with an evaluation function. The services receive partial results and then locally compute the final result, or proximity. The term proximity includes not just physical proximity but also multi-dimensional data such as preference profiles and vectors (e. g. , an affinity for baseball, apple pie, and ballroom dancing).

6845241, Jan 18, 2005

Jan 7, 2002

10/036407

Stefan B. Edlund - San Jose CA, US
Jussi Petri Myllymaki - San Jose CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04Q 720
H04M 1104
H04M 342

4554561, 4554562, 4554563, 4554042, 4554142

Rather than attempting to compute an average position where the mobile object might reside, location reports are ranked according to their relevance using a combination of spatial, temporal, and associative factors. This is particularly beneficial when the number of location information sources is large due to many independent trackable mobile objects (mobile phone, car, credit cards, identity cards, etc. ) one might be associated with.

6938170, Aug 30, 2005

Jul 17, 2000

09/617460

Reiner Kraft - Gilroy CA, US
Jussi Petri Myllymaki - San Jose CA, US
Joann Ruvolo - San Jose CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F007/00
G06F017/21
G06F017/30
H04L009/32

713201, 707 5, 709203, 713189, 715523

A protection system and associated method prevent the automatic crawler access to a company's web-based data, without impacting the ability of an interactive user, such as a consumer, to access the data and to conduct regular business transactions. In one embodiment, the protection system will not prevent the crawler from downloading data; rather, the data will be rendered non-extractable by the crawler. In another embodiment, the protection system will prevent crawler access to the data. To this end, the protection system uses any one or a combination of the following six transcoding techniques: Transcoding technique that changes the web page structure; transcoding technique that changes the web page content; transcoding technique that selectively changes web page variable names; transcoding technique that selectively converts text to images in the web page; transcoding technique that alters form values when executed; and/or transcoding technique that generates a substantial portion of, or the entire web page when executed.

6988100, Jan 17, 2006

Feb 1, 2001

09/775411

Jared J. Jackson - San Jose CA, US
Jussi P. Myllymaki - San Jose CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707 10, 707 2

A proxy engine (), in communication with a web crawler (), extends the performance of the web crawler () by modifying hyperlink requests and creating synthetic hyperlink requests from data received from a web site (). The proxy engine () converts hyperlinks to a method used by a target web site. The proxy engine receives data from a web site () located across a network (), and then determines whether additional data from the web site () is extractable. In response to determining that additional data from the web site () is extractable, the proxy engine () creates at least one synthetic hyperlink for extracting the data from the web site (). The proxy engine () then combines the at least one synthetic hyperlink with the data received from the website () to create combined data and then sends the combined data to the crawler ().

7058668, Jun 6, 2006

Jan 11, 2002

10/042366

Stefan B. Edlund - San Jose CA, US
Jussi Petri Myllymaki - San Jose CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707203, 707201, 707200

Analysis of a history of previous location reports received from a tracked entity is performed and this analysis is utilized to estimate the relevance of future location reports over time. This is accomplished via associating a computed expiration time with each location report, wherein this expiration time is used by an application to estimate the relevance degradation of a location report over time. Thus, the expiration time value acts as a threshold that controls the shape of a relevance degradation curve of a location report.

7086587, Aug 8, 2006

Dec 16, 2004

10/905126

Jussi Petri Myllymaki - San Jose CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 5/00
G06K 19/06
G06F 17/00

235380, 235375, 235492

A system, method and computer program product for enabling a user to detect nearby RFID tags and identify nearby RFID readers to enhance user privacy. A portable RFID reader scans for nearby tags, and a universal RFID tag detects nearby readers. The invention can alert the user of nearby RFID tags or readers, unless the user has disabled the alerting feature or unless a particular tag or reader is already known to the user and has been deemed allowable. A memory includes editable lists of allowable tags and readers. Exemplary alerts include outputs from a sound emitter, a vibrator, a light, or a display readout. The invention thus prevents surreptitious identification and tracking of a user and a user's possessions. The invention may be integrated into items typically carried by users so that the detection and alerting may be performed without outward indication.