Patents Examined by Dough Hutton
  • Patent number: 7627819
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and method for viewing electronic documents. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes an electronic viewer application to display contents of an electronic document; and a visual indicator logic configured to display at least one visual indicator on the electronic display, each visual indicator indicating a portion of the contents that are to be subsequently displayed on the electronic display in response to a navigation command. Other systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7602972
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates detecting white space tables within a document, wherein a white space table is comprised of text arranged in rows and columns, wherein at least some of the rows and columns are separated by bands of white space rather than by lines. The system operates by identifying an area that includes consecutive lines of text objects with an amount of white space between text objects greater than a specified value. Note that a text object is a string of text without an amount of white space greater than the specified value. The system then determines if the text objects on consecutive lines have widths that are within a specified tolerance of each other. If so, the system checks the spaces between the consecutive lines of text objects to determine if they belong to a single white space table or multiple white space tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Adobe Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: Bryan Z. Wei, Shawn A. Gaither
  • Patent number: 6442798
    Abstract: A hinge for connecting a door to a piece of furniture with a frame includes a base plate mounted on the frame. The base plate bears a hinge arm to which a hinge boss is connected by a hinge pin. The base plate is fixed to the frame by a fixing screw. The base plate is provided with a bridge spanning the hinge arm, and an adjustment device is provided for adjusting the position of the hinge arm on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Helmut Rupprechter