Patents by Inventor Douglas Leon Birch

Douglas Leon Birch 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).

  • FORM BUNDLING
    Publication number: 20120221934
    Abstract: A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual form fields in individual forms and then only the form field names in electronic forms selected for the bundle are renamed. Furthermore, the same renaming scheme is also executed in the scripts associated with the individual form documents and fields. As such, the form field names in the scripts of bundled documents are altered to reference the renamed form fields in the corresponding component forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: EFFICIENT FORMS, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Micah Eckelman, Douglas Leon Birch
  • Form bundling
    Patent number: 8190988
    Abstract: A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual form fields in individual forms and then only the form field names in electronic forms selected for the bundle are renamed. Furthermore, the same renaming scheme is also executed in the scripts associated with the individual form documents and fields. As such, the form field names in the scripts of bundled documents are altered to reference the renamed form fields in the corresponding component forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Efficient Forms, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Micah Eckelman, Douglas Leon Birch
  • FORM BUNDLING
    Publication number: 20080072133
    Abstract: A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual form fields in individual forms and then only the form field names in electronic forms selected for the bundle are renamed. Furthermore, the same renaming scheme is also executed in the scripts associated with the individual form documents and fields. As such, the form field names in the scripts of bundled documents are altered to reference the renamed form fields in the corresponding component forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: EFFICIENT FORMS, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Micah Eckelman, Douglas Leon Birch