Patents by Inventor Steven John Earl Gutz

Steven John Earl Gutz 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: 8819594
    Abstract: A technique for handling user-interface gestures in non-rectangular regions of a graphical user interface includes creating a class comprising an event handler for an onmouseover event and an event handler for an onmouseout event. The technique further includes adding each of a group of graphical elements to the class. Adding a graphical element to the class includes adding a reference to the graphical element to the class and attaching the event handlers to the graphical element. The technique then identifies a specific graphical element in the group that triggered an invocation of one of the event handlers. The technique then determines the closest border of the specific graphical element to the mouse pointer. In the event another graphical element in the group shares the closest border, the technique stops either the onmouseover or onmouseout event from propagating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven John Earl Gutz, Graham Andrew Watts
  • Publication number: 20120110549
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for detecting code breakage using source code change history receives a point in time within an identified range of time to form a selected time, receives a set of source files associated with the a selected time, receives a set of history files associated with the received set of source files and initializes a workspace in a sandbox using the set of source files and the set of history files. The computer-implemented process incrementally executes the received set of source files from the selected time forward, determines whether a code break occurs and responsive to a determination that the code break occurs, presents a list of files. The computer-implemented process receives an identified file from the list of files to form a suspect file, and receives a correction for the suspect file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven John Earl Gutz, Thomas Anthony MacDougall, Mohammed Mostafa