Patents Assigned to Geoworks
  • Patent number: 6317781
    Abstract: A system, method, and software product provide a wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface. The man-machine interface provides a user interface for the various telecommunications functionality of the wireless communication device, including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating messages, sending messages, receiving messages, establishing configuration settings, which are defined in markup language, such as HTML, and accessed through a browser program executed by the wireless communication device. This feature enables direct access to Internet and World Wide Web content, such as Web pages, to be directly integrated with telecommunication functions of the device, and allows Web content to be seamlessly integrated with other types of data, since all data presented to the user via the user interface is presented via markup language-based pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Geoworks Corporation
    Inventors: Adam De Boor, Michael D. Eggers
  • Patent number: 6173316
    Abstract: A system, method, and software product provide a wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface. The man-machine interface provides a user interface for the various telecommunications functionality of the wireless communication device, including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating messages, sending messages, receiving messages, establishing configuration settings, which is defined in markup language, such as HTML, and accessed through a browser program executed by the wireless communication device. This feature enables direct access to Internet and World Wide Web content, such as Web pages, to be directly integrated with telecommunication functions of the device, and allows Web content to be seamlessly integrated with other types of data, since all data presented to the user via the user interface is presented via markup language-based pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Geoworks Corporation
    Inventors: Adam De Boor, Michael D. Eggers
  • Patent number: 5327529
    Abstract: A method for invoking a user interface for use with an application operating in a computer system which involves providing in the computer system a generic object class that corresponds to a class of function that is to be performed using the user interface; specifying in the application instance data in the form of a generic object specification that corresponds to the generic object class, the instance data including attribute criteria and hint criteria; providing in the computer system at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller that operates in the computer system to provide a selection of possible specific user interface implementations for use in performing the class of function; and providing in the computer system at least one interpreter that corresponds to the at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Geoworks
    Inventors: Douglas A. Fults, Anthony M. Requist