Patents by Inventor Christopher Pethick

Christopher Pethick 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).

  • Media interface tools and animations
    Patent number: 9727547
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for displaying display primary e-book content, note glyphs and margins in an e-book interface according to the size of the e-book interface; animating “peeking pages” and glyph size during and after re-sizing events; selecting text in an e-book, entering a note that will become linked to the selected text, and representing the presence of the note on top of the primary content of the e-book as an interactive glyph according to some embodiments of the present technology; and displaying note objects, editing note objects, and navigating between note objects in a note-view pane of an e-book interface according to some embodiments of the present technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Allison Styer, M. Frank Emanuel, Jacob Refstrup, Christopher Pethick, Guillermo Ortiz
  • MEDIA INTERFACE TOOLS AND ANIMATIONS
    Publication number: 20140365859
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for displaying display primary e-book content, note glyphs and margins in an e-book interface according to the size of the e-book interface; animating “peeking pages” and glyph size during and after re-sizing events; selecting text in an e-book, entering a note that will become linked to the selected text, and representing the presence of the note on top of the primary content of the e-book as an interactive glyph according to some embodiments of the present technology; and displaying note objects, editing note objects, and navigating between note objects in a note-view pane of an e-book interface according to some embodiments of the present technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Allison Styer, M. Frank Emanuel, Jacob Refstrup, Christopher Pethick, Guillermo Ortiz