Patents by Inventor Ian D. Chan

Ian D. Chan 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).

  • Visualizing a mixture of automated and manual steps in a procedure
    Patent number: 8291318
    Abstract: Visualizing a mixture of automated and manual steps in a procedure. An application engages a teaching mode in a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), wherein a collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI is accentuated. The application records a sequence of selections made among the collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI as well as data entered within the GUI, where the sequence of selections represent a repeatable user-defined procedure for interacting with the web-based GUI. The application replays the sequence of selections within the web-based GUI while displaying a status of the replaying of said sequence of selections that enables a user to differentiate between manual steps that require user intervention and automatic steps that do not require user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Budreau, Ian D. Chan, Osama S. Hashimi, Wing H. Lee, Robert T. Uthe
  • Visualizing a Mixture of Automated and Manual Steps in a Procedure
    Publication number: 20090172534
    Abstract: Visualizing a mixture of automated and manual steps in a procedure. An application engages a teaching mode in a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), wherein a collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI is accentuated. The application records a sequence of selections made among the collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI as well as data entered within the GUI, where the sequence of selections represent a repeatable user-defined procedure for interacting with the web-based GUI. The application replays the sequence of selections within the web-based GUI while displaying a status of the replaying of said sequence of selections that enables a user to differentiate between manual steps that require user intervention and automatic steps that do not require user intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: David A. Budreau, Ian D. Chan, Osama S. Hashimi, Wing H. Lee, Robert T. Uthe