Patents by Inventor Daniel O'Brien Schimpf

Daniel O'Brien Schimpf 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).

  • Publication number: 20110119583
    Abstract: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for manipulating media using software executing on a computer system, e.g., by presenting a user interface for the media manipulation software application, the user interface including an import tool configured to facilitate importation of one or more items of media content into the media manipulation software application, the import tool having a plurality of modules, each module representing a different aspect of an importation process; receiving input specifying a subset of the plurality of modules, each module in the specified subset to be displayed to the user and to be used in a subsequent importation process; displaying to the user the modules from the specified subset while hiding the remaining modules from the user; and importing one or more items of media content using the displayed modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Greg Gilley, Mark Lee Kawano, Daniel O'Brien Schimpf