Patents by Inventor Brian D. Herring

Brian D. Herring 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).

  • Dual context interaction with a content object for facilitating content creation and software development
    Patent number: 9778919
    Abstract: A software module is presented that enables a user to efficiently switch between interacting with a content object in a first context and a second context. Information from the first context is used when switching to the second context and vice versa, thereby decreasing the overhead associated with switching contexts. In one embodiment, the content object is an HTML file, the first context is the file as it appears in a web browser, and the second context is the file in editable format. In one embodiment, when the web browser is directed to a “context-switch URL,” a modified web server extracts information from the context-switch URL and switches the context from the first context to the second. In one embodiment, a person initiates a context-switch by pushing a button on the web browser. This causes a context-switch URL to be generated and directs the web browser to the context-switch URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven R. Kusmer, King Rhoton, Hal R. Schectman, Dietrich W. Schultz, Michael P. Thompson, Kevin G. Wallace, Brian D. Herring