Patents by Inventor Eric Hope

Eric Hope 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).

  • Directory management on a portable multifunction device
    Patent number: 8407613
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display concurrently displays on the touch screen display a plurality of predefined regions, the predefined regions including: a source region, a command region, and a destination region. In response to detecting a first command association input by a user on the touch screen display, the device associates a first icon from the source region with a first directory management command icon in the command region. In response to detecting a first command performance input that includes selecting a first folder icon in the destination region, the device performs a directory management operation on a folder or file that corresponds to the first icon. The directory management operation is in accordance with the first directory management command icon and the selected first folder in the destination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Hope
  • Directory Management on a Portable Multifunction Device
    Publication number: 20110010672
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display concurrently displays on the touch screen display a plurality of predefined regions, the predefined regions including: a source region, a command region, and a destination region. In response to detecting a first command association input by a user on the touch screen display, the device associates a first icon from the source region with a first directory management command icon in the command region. In response to detecting a first command performance input that includes selecting a first folder icon in the destination region, the device performs a directory management operation on a folder or file that corresponds to the first icon. The directory management operation is in accordance with the first directory management command icon and the selected first folder in the destination region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventor: Eric Hope
  • System and method for creating playlists based on mood
    Publication number: 20100011388
    Abstract: Suggested media playlists are created by an electronic device based upon the mood of a user as analyzed by the electronic device. The electronic device may suggest media items for playback based upon the user's past preferences for certain media items during previously similar moods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: William Bull, Policarpo Wood, Kourtny Hicks, Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Eric Hope, Alan Cannistraro
  • Asymmetric catalytic systems
    Publication number: 20060074265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the recovery and the reuse of catalytic systems involving 1,1?-Bi-2-Naphthol (BINOL) and titanium tetraisopropoxide. A further object of the invention is a new method for catalyzing an asymmetric reaction in high conversion rate and enantioselectivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Julian Vaughan-Spickers, Eric Hope, Alison Stuart, Andrew West
  • Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
    Patent number: D607003
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Bull, Kourtny Hicks, Eric Hope, Policarpo Wood