Patents by Inventor Larry Leifer

Larry Leifer 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).

  • Patent number: 6724918
    Abstract: For a number of users is a system provided to create, edit, replay and view documents of free hand drawn sketches. The system captures the creation process together with verbal and/or visual information provided by each user and automatically correlates them for a later synchronized replay. The system provides a number of tools and features, mainly to: combine the sketching activity with existing images, to selectively retrieve media information correlated to individual sketch entities and to quasi simultaneously collaborate at a common document. The system architecture can by adjusted to various parameters in the communication infrastructure. The system may be implemented in any software program, a web based service, a web browser, an operating system for computers and/or communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Samuel Yen, Renate Fruchter, Larry Leifer