Patents by Inventor Ian L. Hersey

Ian L. Hersey 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).

  • Computer method for ranked hyphenation of multilingual text
    Patent number: 5295069
    Abstract: The hierarchy of the hyphenation points in a word is considered and the amount of space remaining in the line where the hyphenated word is to fit is determined, thus selecting the best hyphenation point for the word. Instead of selecting the last possible hyphen within the hot zone, the hot zone is scanned to find hyphenation points that may be better than the last hyphen within the hot zone. The higher a hyphenation point is in the hierarchy, the more preferred is the hyphen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian L. Hersey, Richard L. Stephens, Anthony Zamora