Patents by Inventor Gray Thornton

Gray Thornton 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING AN INTERACTIVE DYNAMIC CULLING GRAPH VIEW OF MULTIPLY CONNECTED OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20100079461
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a graph view on a user interface in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves, at a server, generating coordinate data for a graph representing multiply connected objects; transmitting the coordinate data to a client as lightweight object data; and at the client, based on the lightweight object data rendering an interactive dynamic graph view on a user interface; wherein the rendered graph view includes representations of a plurality of the multiply connected objects selected by depth culling the graph according to graph depth display control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Breeds, Philip R. Taunton, Gray Thornton