Patents by Inventor Gordon Durand
Gordon Durand 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).
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Patent number: 8635701Abstract: Techniques are provided for execution of restricted operations by computer program code in web browsers, where the code is permitted to invoke restricted operations if implicit or explicit consent is received. Such techniques may include generating a risk rating for a computer program code component, where the component includes at least one component operation for executing at least one restricted system operation; and prompting a user for permission to execute the restricted system operation, wherein the prompt includes the risk rating and a description of the component operation. The program code may include script code associated with a web page that invokes a web browser plugin, which in turn invokes the restricted system operation. The code may invoke the restricted system operation in response to receiving an input from a user via the web browser, where the input is for causing an action associated with performing the operation, the action implicitly granting consent to perform the operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Lloyd T. Hilaiel, David B. Grigsby, Gordon Durand, Steven E. Spencer
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Patent number: 8107971Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for using a location aware device to determine a current location, recording a location bookmark for the current location using the location aware device, storing the location bookmark, detecting at some later time that a location of the location aware device is within a specified proximity to the bookmark location and that a user-defined condition is satisfied by the bookmark content, and automatically notifying a user of the location aware device of the location bookmark. A location bookmark includes a bookmark location and bookmark content, the bookmark location being the current location and the bookmark content including data associated with the current location.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Baron L. Roberts, Gordon Durand
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Patent number: 7957749Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for using a location aware device to determine a current location, recording a location bookmark for the current location using the location aware device, storing the location bookmark, detecting at some later time that a location of the location aware device is within a specified proximity to the bookmark location and that a user-defined condition is satisfied by the bookmark content, and automatically notifying a user of the location aware device of the location bookmark. A location bookmark includes a bookmark location and bookmark content, the bookmark location being the current location and the bookmark content including data associated with the current location.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Baron L. Roberts, Gordon Durand
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Publication number: 20090222925Abstract: Techniques are provided for execution of restricted operations by computer program code in web browsers, where the code is permitted to invoke restricted operations if implicit or explicit consent is received. Such techniques may include generating a risk rating for a computer program code component, where the component includes at least one component operation for executing at least one restricted system operation; and prompting a user for permission to execute the restricted system operation, wherein the prompt includes the risk rating and a description of the component operation. The program code may include script code associated with a web page that invokes a web browser plugin, which in turn invokes the restricted system operation. The code may invoke the restricted system operation in response to receiving an input from a user via the web browser, where the input is for causing an action associated with performing the operation, the action implicitly granting consent to perform the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Lloyd T. HILAIEL, David B. Grigsby, Gordon Durand, Steven E. Spencer
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Patent number: 7289812Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for using a location aware device to determine a current location, recording a location bookmark for the current location using the location aware device, storing the location bookmark, detecting at some later time that a location of the location aware device is within a specified proximity to the bookmark location and that a user-defined condition is satisfied by the bookmark content, and automatically notifying a user of the location aware device of the location bookmark. A location bookmark includes a bookmark location and bookmark content, the bookmark location being the current location and the bookmark content including data associated with the current location.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Baron L. Roberts, Gordon Durand
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Patent number: 5880730Abstract: A system and method are provided for automatically creating a desktop icon for access to a remote resource. A text drop event in a desktop area of a user interface is identified, and the associated dropped text is analyzed. It is determined whether the dropped text is a recognized format for a path name to a remote resource. If the dropped text is a recognized format, a desktop icon is created for access to the remote resource based upon the recognized format and the dropped text.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: Silicon Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Gordon A. Durand
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Patent number: 4890547Abstract: A rooftop ventilator includes a fan arranged for rotation about a generally vertical axis. The fan is on a rooftop curb through which air is drawn by the fan from the building interior. A housing extends over the fan and the fan terminates above and spaced from a curb to define a discharge opening for air drawn through the curb. A scroll arrangement is located above the curb and arranged around the periphery of the fan to receive air discharged by the fan and direct it toward the discharge opening. The scroll arrangement is made up of a plurality of scroll elements equally spaced around the periphery of the fan. Each of the scroll elements includes a first elongated element having one end generally adjacent the fan periphery and extending away from the fan periphery; a second elongated element, connected to the first elements to provide a generally continuous extension from the fan periphery. Each of the first and second scroll elements are linear.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1989Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: Carnes Company, Inc.Inventors: Todd M. Wagner, Hardin T. James, Jr., Thomas G. Ayers, Dennis B. Breese, Gordon A. Durand