Patents by Inventor Bruce Chester Bell

Bruce Chester Bell 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).

  • Patent number: 10339173
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, can aggregate content from one or more electronic publication documents. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining information including an index to content items of an electronic publication including a discrete package of received data that is stored locally, the content items being less than all content in the electronic publication received; retrieving, by a computer based on one or more criteria, two or more of the content items provided in disparate portions of the electronic publication, including the discrete package of received data, using the index; and presenting the two or more of the content items together on an output device in a user interface format different from that of the electronic publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Yohko Aurora Fukuda Kelley, Bruce Chester Bell
  • Publication number: 20130166471
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, can aggregate content from one or more electronic publication documents. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining information including an index to content items of an electronic publication including a discrete package of received data that is stored locally, the content items being less than all content in the electronic publication received; retrieving, by a computer based on one or more criteria, two or more of the content items provided in disparate portions of the electronic publication, including the discrete package of received data, using the index; and presenting the two or more of the content items together on an output device in a user interface format different from that of the electronic publication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yohko Aurora Fukuda Kelley, Bruce Chester Bell
  • Publication number: 20130132830
    Abstract: A plurality of behavior templates is generated such that each of the plurality of behavior templates indicates a function that is performed by a corresponding element of a document. Further, a layout policy that indicates a corresponding fixed position in a layout of the document for each of the plurality of behavior templates is generated. The layout is composed by positioning the corresponding element associated with each of the plurality of behavior templates in the corresponding fixed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Bruce Chester Bell