Patents by Inventor Stephen C. Moore
Stephen C. Moore 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).
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Patent number: 9069460Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Patent number: 8976128Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Publication number: 20140028601Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLCInventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Patent number: 8587542Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Patent number: 8508494Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Publication number: 20130063364Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY, INC.Inventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Publication number: 20130063389Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY, INC.Inventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Publication number: 20120306766Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY, INC.Inventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Publication number: 20120306765Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface that responds to differences in pressure detected by a touch-sensitive screen. The user selects one type of user-interface action by “lightly” touching the screen and selects another type of action by exerting more pressure. Embodiments can respond to single touches, to gestural touches that extend across the face of the touch-sensitive screen, and to touches in which the user-exerted pressure varies during the course of the touch. Some embodiments respond to how quickly the user changes the amount of pressure applied. In some embodiments, the location and pressure of the user's input are compared against a stored gesture profile. Action is taken only if the input matches “closely enough” to the stored gesture profile. In some embodiments, a notification is sent to the user when the pressure exceeds a threshold between a light and a heavy press.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY, INC.Inventor: Stephen C. Moore
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Patent number: 7680682Abstract: A product development project assessment approach is provided which includes identifying multiple possible root causes of trouble for a product development project, identifying question sets related to the multiple possible root causes of trouble, and providing a computer-implemented tool to evaluate answers to the question sets and provide guidance regarding existence of one or more root causes of trouble for the product development project. The assessment approach further includes evaluating project management processes employed for the product development project by comparison thereof to identified, standard project management processes, and provide guidance regarding effectiveness of implementation of the project management processes employed. Product management work product is also evaluated as further evidence of the existence of one or more root causes of trouble or the effectiveness of implementation of the project management processes.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Carol B. Jessup, Stephen C. Moore, Gino Palozzi, Pawel A. Stefanski, Stephen D. Trisko, Lawrence E. Wilkie
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Publication number: 20080302950Abstract: A system and method are provided for obtaining data that may be used to generate images of a brain or other bodily organ. The system can include a pair of detecting arrangements and a collimating arrangement associated with each detecting arrangement. A first collimating arrangement can include a cone-beam collimating arrangement having a focal point located within the brain or other organ being imaged. A second collimating arrangement can include a fan-beam collimating arrangement having a focal length selected such that the organ being imaged lies within its field of view to ensure data sufficiency. Cone-beam collimating arrangements having improved hole geometries can also be utilized to provide further increases in imaging sensitivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2006Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: Mi-Ae Park, Stephen C. Moore, Marie Foley Kijewski
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Patent number: 6074429Abstract: Speed, size, and power trade-offs of a VLSI combinational circuit are optimized through iterative restructuring. First, timing analysis for the circuit is performed (102) to find the critical path through the circuit (104). Then, a gate is selected from the critical path (106), and a window is contracted around the gate (108). Within the window, alternate structures are constructed (110) and sized (112). The best alternative is substituted into the window (114), and the new circuit is resized (116). If the new circuit is not an improvement over the old (118), then the original window is replaced (120). In any case, this is repeated for each gate in the circuit (124). The entire process is then repeated until either user constraints are met, or the circuit doesn't change (122).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1997Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Satyamurthy Pullela, Stephen C. Moore, David Blaauw, Rajendran Panda, Gopalakrishnan Vijayan
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Patent number: 5436086Abstract: An apparatus for processing fuel gases, in particular for a fuel cell, includes primary and secondary catalytic oxidation means for the oxidation of carbon monoxide in a reformed fuel gas flow. Small quantities of oxygen required for the secondary oxidation are provided by passing the oxygen through a first oxygen permeable membrane. The oxygen may be supplied as air, pure oxygen or an oxygenated solution. An oxygen fuel supply to the fuel cell may additionally be humidified by allowing water to pass from a water flow across a further membrane into the oxygen supply. Oxygen passing across the further membrane in the opposite sense to the water may serve to oxygenate the water for supplying to the first membrane.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1993Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignees: Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Limited, CJBD LimitedInventors: Clive M. Seymour, Robert A. J. Dams, Ian Palmer, Stephen C. Moore