Patents by Inventor Amy K. Hurst

Amy K. Hurst 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).

  • Feedback mechanism for use with visual selection methods
    Patent number: 6961912
    Abstract: A feedback mechanism usable with graphical user interface systems that do not have a cursor improves the usefulness of such graphical user interfaces. Locating, identifying and/or selecting hyperlink targets or active areas within a displayed image map or within a Web page is facilitated by providing distinctions to the hyperlink targets or active areas or by providing other locational indicators for a designated time period in response to a single user gesture. The distinctions or locational indicators may be provided in combination with other distinctions or locational indicators to further aid the hyperlink target or active area location, identification and/or selection process. After a designated time period expires, the distinctions, locational indicators, or their combination, are removed from the display without any additional user gesture. This increases the efficiency and convenience of locating, identifying and/or selecting hyperlink targets or active areas in a graphical user interface system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Aoki, Richard R. Burton, Amy K. Hurst, Allison G. Woodruff, Victoria M. E. Bellotti
  • Feedback mechanism for use with visual selection methods
    Publication number: 20030016253
    Abstract: A feedback mechanism usable with graphical user interface systems that do not have a cursor improves the usefulness of such graphical user interfaces. Locating, identifying and/or selecting hyperlink targets or active areas within a displayed image map or within a Web page is facilitated by providing distinctions to the hyperlink targets or active areas or by providing other locational indicators for a designated time period in response to a single user gesture. The distinctions or locational indicators may be provided in combination with other distinctions or locational indicators to further aid the hyperlink target or active area location, identification and/or selection process. After a designated time period expires, the distinctions, locational indicators, or their combination, are removed from the display without any additional user gesture. This increases the efficiency and convenience of locating, identifying and/or selecting hyperlink targets or active areas in a graphical user interface system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul M. Aoki, Richard R. Burton, Amy K. Hurst, Allison G. Woodruff, Victoria M.E. Bellotti