Patents by Inventor Cynthia L. Ice

Cynthia L. Ice 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).

  • Illustrating a menu of insights associated with visualizations
    Patent number: 8677275
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. Moody, Cynthia L. Ice, Douglas W. Conmy, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Judi L. Coppinger, Francis D. Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ILLUSTRATING A MENU OF INSIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH VISUALIZATIONS
    Publication number: 20110113375
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. MOODY, Cynthia L. Ice, Douglas W. Conmy, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Jodi L. Coppinger, Francis D. Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • System and method for illustrating a menu of insights associated with visualizations
    Patent number: 7900160
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. Moody, Cynthia L. Ice, Douglas W. Conmy, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Jodi L. Coppinger, Francis D. Bermingham, Ram Krishnamurthy
  • Enabling a user to select multiple objects in a document
    Patent number: 7752563
    Abstract: A user is enabled to select multiple objects in a document which is opened in an editor and contains selectable objects by presenting each of the objects as an entry of plurality of entries in a separate window; allowing the user to select multiple entries; and selecting multiple objects corresponding to the selected multiple entries in the editor based on the entries selected by the user. An Assistive Technology application may be called to provide related information and selection state of the operated object based on a user's operation on any one of the entries. The multiple objects can be selected in the document with a keyboard to help disabled users, such as low vision users or blind users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cynthia L. Ice, Ming Fei Jia, Xing Li, Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger
  • ENABLING A USER TO SELECT MULTIPLE OBJECTS IN A DOCUMENT
    Publication number: 20080040686
    Abstract: A user is enabled to select multiple objects in a document which is opened in an editor and contains selectable objects by presenting each of the objects as an entry of plurality of entries in a separate window, allowing the user to select multiple entries; and selecting multiple objects corresponding to the selected multiple entries in the editor based on the entries selected by the user. An Assistive Technology application may be called to provide related information and selection state of the operated object based on a user's operation on any one of the entries. The multiple objects can be selected in the document with a keyboard to help disabled users, such as low vision users or blind users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: CYNTHIA L. ICE, MING FEI JIA, XING LI, RICHARD SCOTT SCHWERDTFEGER