Patents by Inventor William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
William Jaaskelainen, Jr. 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: 6630217Abstract: An assembly, composed of long foamed tubing, with a soft inner surface and a smooth outer surface, so configured that it covers and minimizes the problem of snare points on equipment in contact with a protective covering tarpaulin. Protective tarpaulin are generally made of fabric or synthetic sheets. They can be made waterproof by impregnating them with various water proofing agents as well as being coated with a variety of natural or synthetic coatings such as acrylic or synthetic rubberized latices. Synthetic tarpaulins can be reinforced with a fiber matrics, if needed and used for example to cover pleasure boats, construction equipment, flatbed trucks, construction sites, airplanes, cars and trucks, where one wishes to protect from environmental exposure. Yet in spite of these intentions, these sheets exhibit significant defects in that they can be readily ripped and torn on the sharp and protruding edges of the equipment that they are intended to protect.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2000Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Inventors: William Jaaskelainen, Jr., Jeffrey Carl Schoenherr, Ronald James Urbin
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Patent number: 6564374Abstract: A compare sequence is executed at least once, and the results of that execution are used to modify the compare sequence for a subsequent execution of the compare sequence. In a preferred embodiment, the compare sequence is modified by placing the TRUE compare statement of the previous execution at the beginning of the compare sequence. In another preferred embodiment, the compare sequence is reordered in descending order of the number of TRUE compares associated with each compare statement. The compare sequence may be immediately modified after each successful compare, or the customer may define external sampling periods for modification of the compare sequences. The modification may be a single program modification of compare structures for delayed modification or a global modification of programs for delayed modification.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1999Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 6353449Abstract: A method and implementing computer system are provided in which screensavers are used to lock a workstation and present an eye-pleasing display while the user is away from the workstation. Users are enabled to select from a plurality of screensaver types which are applied in a screensaver mode. The screensaver displays include application indicia representative of work-in-progress when a screensaver mode was activated. The application indicia can be selectively obscured to hide work which may be of a sensitive or proprietary nature.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1998Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leon Edward Gregg, William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 6115029Abstract: A graphical pointing device and method for controlling a graphical pointer displayed within a display device of a data processing system are disclosed. The graphical pointing device includes a transducer, which converts manipulation of the graphical pointing device into electrical signals utilized by a data processing system to move a graphical pointer displayed within a display device. In addition, the graphical pointing device includes a graphical pointer speed control for varying a relationship between the electrical signals and manipulation of the graphical pointing device, thereby enabling the graphical pointer to be moved within the display device at various speeds by differing adjustments of the graphical pointer speed control without modifying programming within the data processing system.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1996Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Jaaskelainen, Jr., Leon E. Gregg
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Patent number: 6108675Abstract: A data processor controlled user interactive display system for displaying hypertext documents, each including a sequence of display screen pages including text and image information received over a communications network such as the World Wide Web by first determining the more significant page edge based upon the horizontal direction in which the natural language of the text is read. Visual information density at a sequence of horizontal positions in a medial direction with respect to said significant page edge is then sampled, and each sequential sample of said visual information is compared to a selected density level. As a result of this comparison, the visual information in the window is positioned with respect to a reference margin determined by a sample of said visual information attaining said selected density level.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1998Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leon Edward Gregg, William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 6052115Abstract: In a computer controlled user interactive display, a system is provided for controlling cursor movement on the display screen involving a user activated cursor control device connected to said computer movable in the four orthogonal directions. The system has conventional means for converting the user activated orthogonal movements into cursor movements in said orthogonal directions on said display screen and user interactive means for scaling said cursor movements in each of said four orthogonal directions relative to the corresponding movements in said cursor control device. The invention is particularly directed to such cursor movement rate scaling in respective windows.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leon Edward Gregg, William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 6002397Abstract: A window hatch is created in a displayed window. Once the hatch is created, a portion of the displayed window delimited by the hatch disappears, revealing the window underneath. Multiple invocations of the hatch operation bore through lower, underlying windows until the desired window is reached. Thus, portions of the desired underlying window show through the window hatch, while the top window remains in view. The window hatch can be adjusted in size and shape. The underlying window can be repositioned so that the desired information shows through the hatch. Various navigation and information cues are available to assist the user in understanding the relationship of the various windows and correctly positioning the window hatch.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 5963195Abstract: An improved pointer device, such as a mouse, for a computer system having a video display that uses a moving graphical pointer. The pointer device has switches or dials that allow independent adjustment of mouse speed and acceleration. Separate adjustments can be made for X and Y axes of motion of the mouse. Since the adjustment functionality is built into the hardware of the mouse, the mouse user is able to easily configure mouse behavior without navigating various menus and panels in software drivers, providing functionality which may not otherwise be available on the user's system.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1996Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leon Edward Gregg, Julianne Frances Haugh, William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 5963191Abstract: A widget, a predefined region of a graphical display, and a graphical pointer or cursor are displayed on the display device. A user may define a gravitational widget where traversal rates are not constant on the display. In addition, relationships may be defined which correlates manipulation of the graphical pointing device, the movement of the graphical pointer and a widget. Certain users may be denied access to one or more widgets. When the graphical pointer contacts the border of the widget, the graphical pointer may be denied access to the widget by controlling the graphical pointer. Control of the graphical pointer is accomplished through a defined relationship or action rule.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1997Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 5835088Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed that allow rapid positioning of a cursor within a data processing system graphical user interface. The method involves establishing a preferred order of the cursor movement between at least a subset of windows with all windows active on the data processing system and then repositioning the cursor based upon the preferred order of the cursor movement between the windows when an input stimulus is activated. Next, the window is then activated based on the cursor being repositioned and then giving the activated window the focus within the graphical user interface, which then leads to the activated window being prepared for date manipulation. The apparatus comprises a keyboard coupled to the data processing system, a pointer device, also coupled to the data processing system, and means for establishing a user definable window application order preference queue.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 5737555Abstract: A method for rapid positioning of a display pointer on a display screen may be accomplished by establishing a preferred order of display pointer movement between widgets when the particular screen location of the widgets is known. Having established the preferred order, the display pointer is automatically repositioned based on the preferred order when an input stimulus is activated. The input stimulus may be activated by a function of the keyboard, mouse, or any other input devices that may be used in association with a computer.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1995Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leon Edward Gregg, William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 5732228Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for controlling the movement of a graphical pointer displayed within a display device of a data processing system having a graphical pointing device. According to the present invention, a widget, a predefined region within a graphical display, and a graphical pointer are displayed within the display device of the data processing system. When the graphical pointer is displayed at positions within the widget, a first relationship correlates manipulation of the graphical pointing device and movement of the graphical pointer within the display device. Conversely, when the graphical pointer is displayed at positions without the widget, a second relationship correlates manipulation of the graphical pointing device and movement of the graphical pointer within the display device.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1995Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Jaaskelainen, Jr.
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Patent number: 5710574Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for positioning a graphical pointer displayed within a widget displayed within the display device of a data processing system having a graphical pointing device. According to the present invention, a widget, a predefined region of a graphical display, and a graphical pointer are displayed within the display device. A first relationship is defined which correlates manipulation of the graphical pointing device and movement of the graphical pointer when the graphical pointer is within a first region within the widget. A second relationship is also defined which correlates manipulation of the graphical pointing device and movement of the graphical pointer when the graphical pointer is within a second region within the widget.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1995Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Jaaskelainen, Jr.