Patents by Inventor Charles E. Burkett

Charles E. Burkett has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Technique for flexible inclusion of information items and various media types in a user interface
    Patent number: 6781609
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for flexibly including descriptive information items, and the various media resources used for those items, in a user interface (UI). One markup language document is used for the UI data content, and a separate markup language document is used for specifying the descriptive items and media resources to be used along with that content. This technique enables dynamically altering the descriptive items and media resources to be used for a UI document, without requiring change to the UI document itself This technique also enables developing the descriptive items and media resources separately from developing the UI document, without a requirement to share common files between these development efforts. The specifications of descriptive information items and media resources can be efficiently reused among multiple UI documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin S. Barker, Charles E. Burkett, David B. Lection, Roland A. Merrick