Patents by Inventor Gerald E. Hayes

Gerald E. Hayes 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: 4707801
    Abstract: A word processing system is provided with an interactive display terminal for displaying by character generation a data stream representative of alphanumeric characters to be printed on a document together with means for printing the characters on the document. The processing system integrates into the data stream, data representative of graphics and converts such integrated graphic data into graphic display characters whereby the graphics may also be displayed through character generation. When printing of the graphics and alphanumeric information to produce documents is required, the data in the data stream representative of alphanumeric characters is applied to the printing means resulting in the printing of the characters and the data in the data stream representative of the graphics is applied to apparatus for producing the graphics such as a plotter to produce the graphic content of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Johnny G. Barnes, James N. Chen, Gerald E. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4556954
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for assisting the operator of an interactive text processing system in the interactive selection of text processing tasks from a combined program/work diskette. The method involves displaying to the operator a "special" menu which is dynamically developed from information obtained during the creation of the combined program/work diskette, which menu reflects text processing task programs that have been combined on a combined program/work diskette. The combined program/work diskette is created by transferring to a diskette sets of programming modules where each set represents a different text processing task and originates from a different program diskette that is selected interactively by the operator during the creation of the combined program diskette. The special menu informs the operator what specific text processing tasks out of a large group of text processing tasks have been combined on the diskette and are now available to the operator for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hira Advani, Gerald E. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4477880
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for improving the efficiency of an operator of an interactive text processing system in which a plurality of different text processing task programs are each stored on a different single-sided, single-density (1S1D) diskette so that in the creation and use of a text document involving several different tasks, the operator's efficiency is decreased due to the time involved in inserting and removing each required diskette. The method involves creating a combined program diskette on a two-sided, double-density (2S2D) diskette by sequentially transferring program modules for interactively selected text processing task programs from corresponding 1S1D diskettes under the control of a "Combine" program. The method provides one 2S2D combined text processing program diskette containing all the programs necessary to create and use a specific text document by means of the selected tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hira Advani, William C. Cason, Gerald E. Hayes