Patents by Inventor Stewart Irvine
Stewart Irvine 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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Publication number: 20200409548Abstract: This invention is a What you touch is what you get interface WYTIWYG which is a new touch interface not relying on the appearance of a touch-sensitive display screen, and therefore has capacity to be backward compatible with an existing operating system EOS which is a WYSIWYG interface, and yet be able to fully operate every operation of the EOS by a touch different to the EOS. The EOS, including one of the latest version of iOS, Android and Windows, is a What you see is what you get interface WYSIWYG. The EOS relies on at least displaying two or more different appearances of graphical display element GDE on an appearance of a background screen, e.g. the internet icon and the phone icon on the background screen of the desktop.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine
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Patent number: 10013535Abstract: A program controller is arranged to automatically authorize or configure or upgrade a program for a customer replaceable card of a system, the controller being arranged to manage the program automatically, according to a licence agreement, and according to a stored history of use of the hardware module. A supplier can track customer changes and enforce more easily different conditions for authorizing the program on, different modules from different sources, having different levels of capability. There can be less interaction with the supplier to get specific authorizations. The history can be stored on the module. It can be used to ease inventory tracking and generate billing information.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Andrew James Thomas, Mark Skrebels, Stewart Irvine
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Publication number: 20170322722Abstract: If skilled people saw FIG. 1A, they would say it was a touch device (iTouch) in prior art sleep mode, which meant nothing could happen if you touched the screen, and saves power by a turned off touch-sensitive screen. They would be completely wrong, as it shows an i Touch operating by independent touch IT e.g. a user can unlock and turn on the display by performing the swipe 2 (FIG. 1A) independent to a turned off display screen without pressing the button 1, which is impossible for the prior art. IT's unknown beneficial superior properties are an instant, simplest, easier to use, more reliable, pressure independent, more power conserving operation, with less digit movement, and safer overall, with an aesthetic beauty requiring no ugly external buttons, improving the user's mental recall and decisiveness; and has beauty, ergonomic simplicity, and increased capacity, improving any performance of an operation or task in the prior art.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventor: Nes Stewart IRVINE
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Publication number: 20160246451Abstract: A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below, A GUI in which, when a pointer 0 is immediately adjacent or passes over a control area 1, a procedure is initiated whereby subsequent movement of the pointer over a predetermined path area 3 generates a ‘click’ event which simulates direct clicking of the control 1 and moving outside the predetermined path area 3 prior to completion of the path 3 resets the control to as if the pointer has never started along the predetermined path area 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine
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Publication number: 20140195969Abstract: A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below, A GUI in which, when a pointer 0 is immediately adjacent or passes over a control area 1, a procedure is initiated whereby subsequent movement of the pointer over a predetermined path area 3 generates a ‘click’ event which simulates direct clicking of the control 1 and moving outside the predetermined path area 3 prior to completion of the path 3 resets the control to as if the pointer has never started along the predetermined path area 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine
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Patent number: 8549443Abstract: A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below. A GUI in which, when a pointer 0 is immediately adjacent or passes over a control area 1, a procedure is initiated whereby subsequent movement of the pointer over a predetermined path area 3 generates a ‘click’ event which simulates direct clicking of the control 1 and moving outside the predetermined path area 3 prior to completion of the path 3 resets the control to as if the pointer has never started along the predetermined path area 3.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine
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Publication number: 20110093819Abstract: A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below, A GUI in which, when a pointer 0 is immediately adjacent or passes over a control area 1, a procedure is initiated whereby subsequent movement of the pointer over a predetermined path area 3 generates a ‘click’ event which simulates direct clicking of the control 1 and moving outside the predetermined path area 3 prior to completion of the path 3 resets the control to as if the pointer has never started along the predetermined path area 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine
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Patent number: 7818691Abstract: A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below. A GUI in which, when a pointer 0 is immediately adjacent or passes over a control area 1, a procedure is initiated whereby subsequent movement of the pointer over a predetermined path area 3 generates a ‘click’ event which simulates direct clicking of the control 1 and moving outside the predetermined path area 3 prior to completion of the path 3 resets the control to as if the pointer has never started along the predetermined path area 3.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2001Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine
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Publication number: 20050114234Abstract: A program controller is arranged to automatically authorize or configure or upgrade a program for a customer replaceable card of a system, the controller being arranged to manage the program automatically, according to a licence agreement, and according to a stored history of use of the hardware module. A supplier can track customer changes and enforce more easily different conditions for authorising the program on, different modules from different sources, having different levels of capability. There can be less interaction with the supplier to get specific authorizations. The history can be stored on the module. It can be used to ease inventory tracking and generate billing information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2003Publication date: May 26, 2005Inventors: Andrew Thomas, Mark Skrebels, Stewart Irvine
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Publication number: 20030197744Abstract: A GUI interface, a method of programming a GUI interface, and an apparatus which enables functions of controls in the GUI to be activated by a movement to a control and then another subsequent movement related to that control. It may be defined more precisely below. A GUI in which, when a pointer 0 is immediately adjacent or passes over a control area 1, a procedure is initiated whereby subsequent movement of the pointer over a predetermined path area 3 generates a “click” event which simulates direct clicking of the control 1 and moving outside the predetermined path area 3 prior to completion of the path 3 resets the control to as if the pointer has never started along the predetermined path area 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventor: Nes Stewart Irvine