Patents by Inventor Gordon R. Quigley

Gordon R. Quigley 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).

  • Selective caching of interactive objects
    Patent number: 9192863
    Abstract: The present disclosure may take the form of a method for enhancing performance of interactive content. The method includes analyzing by a processing element a user actuated object of the interactive content, predicting action of the user actuated object in a proceeding frame of the interactive content, using the predicted action, determining by the processing element if the user actuated object can be cached for the proceeding frame, if the user actuated object can be cached, saving the user actuated object as a bitmap object and display the bitmap object in the proceeding frame and if the user actuated object cannot be cached, rendering a vector graphic of the user actuated object in the proceeding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Ross A. Ladell, Andrew J. Doll, Heath S. Farrow, Gordon R. Quigley, Christopher Quigley
  • SELECTIVE CACHING OF INTERACTIVE OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20150119139
    Abstract: The present disclosure may take the form of a method for enhancing performance of interactive content. The method includes analyzing by a processing element a user actuated object of the interactive content, predicting action of the user actuated object in a proceeding frame of the interactive content, using the predicted action, determining by the processing element if the user actuated object can be cached for the proceeding frame, if the user actuated object can be cached, saving the user actuated object as a bitmap object and display the bitmap object in the proceeding frame and if the user actuated object cannot be cached, rendering a vector graphic of the user actuated object in the proceeding frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross A. Ladell, Andrew J. Doll, Heath S. Farrow, Gordon R. Quigley, Christopher Quigley