Patents by Inventor Clifford Lee Coppinger

Clifford Lee Coppinger 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).

  • Publication number: 20030142353
    Abstract: A printing device is provided, the printing device including memory configured to receive and store a pending print job, a print engine configured to print the pending print job onto a medium, a processor configured to determine an amount of memory utilized by the pending print job, and a memory usage indicator configured to display to a user a representation of the amount of memory utilized by the pending print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Kram Henry Allen, Linn James Kropf, Clifford Lee Coppinger
  • Publication number: 20030093483
    Abstract: A system for facilitating email communications. The system includes a first mechanism for monitoring when emails are sent and/or how often the emails are sent to different email addresses and providing a signal in response thereto. A second mechanism selectively displays a list of most recently used email addresses and/or most frequently used email addresses based on the signal and based on user input. In a specific embodiment, the first mechanism includes email address usage-tracking software that interfaces with email communications software. Email address sorting software communicates with the email address usage-tracking software and employs a data structure that contains priorities associated with a predetermined number of email addresses. The predetermined number of email addresses is user-configurable via a user-interface to the email address sorting software. The email address sorting software sorts email addresses in a data structure according to priority values assigned to each email.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Kram Henry Allen, Linn James Kropf, Clifford Lee Coppinger
  • Publication number: 20030081013
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the presentation of a hierarchical arrangement of items in a window of a graphical user interface are provided. One embodiment is a method for controlling the presentation of a hierarchical arrangement of items in a window of a graphical user interface. At least one of the items in the hierarchical arrangement has one or more related sub-items. Briefly described, one such method comprises the steps of: determining when a cursor is moved over one of the items; and if the one of the items has one or more related sub-items, displaying a first preview window comprising the one or more related sub-items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Kram Henry Allen, Linn James Kropf, Clifford Lee Coppinger