Patents by Inventor Duane Barret

Duane Barret 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for providing graphical indicators and inline controls for relating and managing portlets in a graphical user interface
    Publication number: 20060184882
    Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing an interactive graphical user interface having the ability to graphically depict the relationships between or among multiple portlets. In one aspect, the present invention relates a child sub-portlet to a parent portlet with at least one graphical indicator when the child sub-portlet is surfaced from the parent portlet. Other aspects of the present invention concern in-line tools integrated in the graphical indicators for managing portlet operations. The graphical indicators and inline controls of the present invention allow a user to accurately and precisely control portlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Molander, Karen Kluttz, Deanna Shaw, Duane Barret, Zhao Lu, Darren Upton, Ted Slupesky, David Merbach