Patents by Inventor James Alan Ott

James Alan Ott 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 apparatus for implicitly generating and supporting a user interface
    Patent number: 6760902
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that automatically creates the user interface in an object-oriented software program, without the need for explicit user interface code, is disclosed. The present invention includes a visual object base class with functions that support the creation and management of views, one or more instrumented object classes that are subclasses of the visual object base class and from which instrumented objects are created, and a Visualization Engine. Each instrumented object class defines one or more of the class members to be visual elements that are capable of being represented in the user interface environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Inventor: James Alan Ott