Patents by Inventor Bernd Paradies

Bernd Paradies 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).

  • Methods and Apparatus for Processing Use of a Computer System
    Publication number: 20170178173
    Abstract: A system rewards use of a software application in a computerized device during operation of the software application in the computerized device by identifying an amount of an input signal received from at least one input device in association with the software application and accumulating a total of the amount of the input signal received over time for the software application. The system provides a reward, such as airline miles or other credit, to a registered user associated with the software application based on the accumulated total of the amount of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Bernd Paradies
  • Methods and apparatus for processing use of a computer system
    Publication number: 20130132186
    Abstract: A system rewards use of a software application in a computerized device during operation of the software application in the computerized device by identifying an amount of an input signal received from at least one input device in association with the software application and accumulating a total of the amount of the input signal received over time for the software application. The system provides a reward, such as airline miles or other credit, to a registered user associated with the software application based on the accumulated total of the amount of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventor: Bernd Paradies
  • Packaging an electronic document and/or a method of displaying the package
    Patent number: 8316291
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, systems and/or devices for packaging an electronic document and/or displaying the package are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first document including one or more digital media assets may be packaged. Packing the electronic document may comprise generating a second document comprising a rendering of at least a portion of the first document, extracting at least a portion of the digital media assets from the first document into one or more electronic files, and generating an electronic file comprising descriptive data for at least a portion of the extracted digital media assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Bernd Paradies, Nils Hausig
  • Applying a computer-implemented test to determine whether to replace adjacent characters in a word with a ligature glyph
    Patent number: 6754875
    Abstract: A computer determines whether to use a ligature glyph in place of adjacent non-ligature characters by identifying adjacent characters in a word that can be represented by a ligature glyph, applying a test to determine whether the adjacent characters occur at a position in the word at which the ligature glyph is allowed to appear, and using the ligature glyph in place of the adjacent characters only if the test is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Bernd Paradies