Patents by Inventor Chester Bell

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
  • Patent number: 8214764
    Abstract: A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results can be presented in either a cluster or histogram format, or both. This allows the user to visualize the results graphically, rather than just displaying a list of the items found. In addition the presentation of the search results can be graphically manipulated to easily filter the results as desired by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gemmell, Roger Lueder, Chester Bell
  • Patent number: 7698657
    Abstract: A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results can be presented in either a cluster or histogram format, or both. This allows the user to visualize the results graphically, rather than just displaying a list of the items found. In addition the presentation of the search results can be graphically manipulated to easily filter the results as desired by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gemmell, Roger Lueder, Chester Bell
  • Publication number: 20080059899
    Abstract: A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results can be presented in either a cluster or histogram format, or both. This allows the user to visualize the results graphically, rather than just displaying a list of the items found. In addition the presentation of the search results can be graphically manipulated to easily filter the results as desired by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gemmell, Roger Lueder, Chester Bell
  • Publication number: 20050080770
    Abstract: A system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard electronic search to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and refines search results items using a tree format. In general, the tree has a first level that indicates how the search results may be refined. The second level of the tree shows what subsets (what) are available for a particular refining method. The third level shows how the already refined (by the second level) results may be refined further. This is repeatedly applied with odd-numbered levels of the tree indicating how the results may be refined, and even-numbered levels indicating what subsets are available. In addition to the tree, the search results window also includes a listing of the search results items associated with a user-selected portion of the tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Lueder, David Gemmell, Chester Bell
  • Publication number: 20050080769
    Abstract: A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results can be presented in either a cluster or histogram format, or both. This allows the user to visualize the results graphically, rather than just displaying a list of the items found. In addition the presentation of the search results can be graphically manipulated to easily filter the results as desired by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gemmell, Roger Lueder, Chester Bell