Patents by Inventor David A. Budreau

David A. Budreau 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: 8291318
    Abstract: Visualizing a mixture of automated and manual steps in a procedure. An application engages a teaching mode in a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), wherein a collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI is accentuated. The application records a sequence of selections made among the collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI as well as data entered within the GUI, where the sequence of selections represent a repeatable user-defined procedure for interacting with the web-based GUI. The application replays the sequence of selections within the web-based GUI while displaying a status of the replaying of said sequence of selections that enables a user to differentiate between manual steps that require user intervention and automatic steps that do not require user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Budreau, Ian D. Chan, Osama S. Hashimi, Wing H. Lee, Robert T. Uthe
  • Publication number: 20120159351
    Abstract: Embodiments includes a method comprising generating a User Interface (UI) application, based on instructions from a developer using a software development tool. The UI application includes an edit layer configured to enable multiple reviewers of the UI application to graphically overlay multiple reviews of the UI application over a display of the UI application, wherein the multiple reviews comprise a markup of at least one of a design, a layout and a wording of text of the UI application. The method also includes receiving the multiple reviews of the UI application from the multiple reviewers. The method includes displaying, for review by the developer, the UI application and the multiple reviews graphically overlaid on the UI application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Denise A. Bell, David A. Budreau, Travis M. Grigsby, Jana H. Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20090172534
    Abstract: Visualizing a mixture of automated and manual steps in a procedure. An application engages a teaching mode in a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), wherein a collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI is accentuated. The application records a sequence of selections made among the collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI as well as data entered within the GUI, where the sequence of selections represent a repeatable user-defined procedure for interacting with the web-based GUI. The application replays the sequence of selections within the web-based GUI while displaying a status of the replaying of said sequence of selections that enables a user to differentiate between manual steps that require user intervention and automatic steps that do not require user intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: David A. Budreau, Ian D. Chan, Osama S. Hashimi, Wing H. Lee, Robert T. Uthe
  • Publication number: 20090031224
    Abstract: A static graphic image on a web page is visually associated with hypertext markup language (HTML) text on the web page. A web page containing multiple static graphic images and HTML text associated with each static graphic image is displayed. Input indicating selection of a static graphic image or HTML text is received. The selection is indicated by movement of a cursor over at least a portion of a selected static graphic image, movement of the cursor over selected HTML text, or focusing on an area of a selected static graphic image or selected HTML text. In response to the input, the web page is displayed with selected HTML text or HTML text associated with a selected static graphic image highlighted with a visual cue on the web page and with the display of a selected static graphic image or a static graphic image associated with selected HTML text updated without moving to another area on the web page or moving to another web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: David A. Budreau