Patents by Inventor Barbara Stefik

Barbara Stefik 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).

  • Systems and methods for persistent context-aware guides
    Patent number: 10460327
    Abstract: Techniques are described that provide a reading pane for reading one or more content portions of a work and a guide pane that displays a structured overview of additional information from the corpus that is focused by an analysis of information from the currently-visible content portion of the work. The contents of the currently-visible content portion displayed within the reading page are used to derive dynamic representations of the user's immediate interests. At the user's request, a structured persistent context-aware guide is computed and displayed. The persistent context-aware guide provides a framework for accessing other parts of the corpus having the most-related information. The elements in the persistent context-aware guide are other content portions or other organizations such as sections, chapters, or articles in the corpus. The persistent context-aware guide may also incorporate additional closely-related information elements from outside the corpus including advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mark J. Stefik, Stuart K. Card, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Barbara Stefik
  • Systems and methods for persistent context-aware guides
    Publication number: 20080027707
    Abstract: Techniques are described that provide a reading pane for reading one or more content portions of a work and a guide pane that displays a structured overview of additional information from the corpus that is focused by an analysis of information from the currently-visible content portion of the work. The contents of the currently-visible content portion displayed within the reading page are used to derive dynamic representations of the user's immediate interests. At the user's request, a structured persistent context-aware guide is computed and displayed. The persistent context-aware guide provides a framework for accessing other parts of the corpus having the most-related information. The elements in the persistent context-aware guide are other content portions or other organizations such as sections, chapters, or articles in the corpus. The persistent context-aware guide may also incorporate additional closely-related information elements from outside the corpus including advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Mark J. Stefik, Stuart K. Card, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Barbara Stefik