Patents by Inventor Edward W Ishak

Edward W Ishak 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: 9086791
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for providing content-aware scrolling are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing content-aware scrolling is provided, the method comprising: determining whether one or more regions of content in a document are important regions; generating a scroll path that passes through the important regions, wherein at least one of direction, speed, and zoom are varied along the scroll path based on characteristics of the important regions; and, in response to receiving a user input, traversing the generated scroll path through the important regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Edward W. Ishak, Steven K. Feiner
  • Patent number: 8347237
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a belief graph and a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state by presenting an instance-representation of a first separately-movable instance object that represents a first entity/relationship object in the relationship data structure wherein the instance-representation of the first separately-movable instance object can be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Eric A Bier, Edward W Ishak
  • Publication number: 20120005623
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for providing content-aware scrolling are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing content-aware scrolling is provided, the method comprising: determining whether one or more regions of content in a document are important regions; generating a scroll path that passes through the important regions, wherein at least one of direction, speed, and zoom are varied along the scroll path based on characteristics of the important regions; and, in response to receiving a user input, traversing the generated scroll path through the important regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Edward W. Ishak, Steven K. Feiner
  • Patent number: 8010646
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state including a presentation of a first instance-representation that represents a first separately-movable instance object and a second instance-representation that represents a second separately-movable instance object. This aspect enables the first instance-representation and detects when the first instance-representation is dropped within a threshold distance of the second instance-representation. When the first instance-representation is dropped, the technology identifies, responsive to the step of detecting, one of a plurality of spatial relationships between the first instance-representation and the second instance-representation. Responsive to the identified spatial relationship, the technology selects an operation, and responsive to the operation modifies a composite object in the relationship data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Eric A Bier, Edward W Ishak
  • Publication number: 20070300170
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a belief graph and a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state by presenting an instance-representation of a first separately-movable instance object that represents a first entity/relationship object in the relationship data structure wherein the instance-representation of the first separately-movable instance object can be selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER
    Inventors: Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak
  • Publication number: 20070300190
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state including a presentation of a first instance-representation that represents a first separately-movable instance object and a second instance-representation that represents a second separately-movable instance object. This aspect enables the first instance-representation and detects when the first instance-representation is dropped within a threshold distance of the second instance-representation. When the first instance-representation is dropped, the technology identifies, responsive to the step of detecting, one of a plurality of spatial relationships between the first instance-representation and the second instance-representation. Responsive to the identified spatial relationship, the technology selects an operation, and responsive to the operation modifies a composite object in the relationship data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER
    Inventors: Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak