Patents by Inventor James Andrew Smith

James Andrew Smith 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).

  • Patent number: 12020209
    Abstract: As digital assets are created and shared, design components that comprise those digital assets are curated, organized, and tracked so as to allow meaningful relationships to be established between shared assets and design components. The tracking that underlies such relationships is provided by metadata associated with a given design component. This metadata may include information such as an asset identifier that identifies a source digital asset from which the design component was extracted; a version identifier that identifies a version of the source digital asset; an author identifier that identifies an author of the source digital asset; and a layer identifier that can be used to reveal the context in which the design component was derived from the source asset. This metadata allows relationships to be established between a design component and the digital assets that incorporate that design component, thus facilitating asset and component tracking and update notification broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Lavanya Raghunath, Gavin Murray Peacock, Michael James Andrew Smith
  • Patent number: 10613965
    Abstract: Method and systems of visually depicting instrumented and sampled data are provided. A first stream of instrumented data, the instrumented data collected via execution of code contained in a user-scriptable engine. Then a second stream of sampled data is received, the sampled data collected by monitoring execution of code contained in scripts executed by the user-scriptable engine. Then an aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data and an aggregated version of a portion of the sampled data are simultaneously displayed in one or more viewing regions. Then user interaction with an object pertaining to the aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data is received. In response to the receiving user interaction with the object pertaining to the aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data, the aggregated version of the portion of the sampled data is caused to change to depict a different aggregated version of a portion of the sampled data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Edward Shepherd, Michael James Andrew Smith, George Comninos, Gavin Murray Peacock
  • Patent number: 10496658
    Abstract: Method and systems of visually depicting hierarchical data are provided. The hierarchical data includes data pertaining to a plurality of categories, the hierarchical data further including data pertaining to a plurality of subcategories of at least one of the plurality of categories. Multiple viewing regions may then be displayed simultaneously on a display, each viewing region depicting a different view of the hierarchical data, objects displayed in each viewing region being color-coded with a different color for each category, such that an object corresponding to a first category in a first viewing region is displayed in an identical color as an object corresponding to the first category in a second viewing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Andrew Smith, Gavin Murray Peacock, Seth Walker, Adam Cath
  • Publication number: 20160350716
    Abstract: As digital assets are created and shared, design components that comprise those digital assets are curated, organized, and tracked so as to allow meaningful relationships to be established between shared assets and design components. The tracking that underlies such relationships is provided by metadata associated with a given design component. This metadata may include information such as an asset identifier that identifies a source digital asset from which the design component was extracted; a version identifier that identifies a version of the source digital asset; an author identifier that identifies an author of the source digital asset; and a layer identifier that can be used to reveal the context in which the design component was derived from the source asset. This metadata allows relationships to be established between a design component and the digital assets that incorporate that design component, thus facilitating asset and component tracking and update notification broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lavanya Raghunath, Gavin Murray Peacock, Michael James Andrew Smith
  • Publication number: 20140282416
    Abstract: Method and systems of visually depicting instrumented and sampled data are provided. A first stream of instrumented data, the instrumented data collected via execution of code contained in a user-scriptable engine. Then a second stream of sampled data is received, the sampled data collected by monitoring execution of code contained in scripts executed by the user-scriptable engine. Then an aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data and an aggregated version of a portion of the sampled data are simultaneously displayed in one or more viewing regions. Then user interaction with an object pertaining to the aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data is received. In response to the receiving user interaction with the object pertaining to the aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data, the aggregated version of the portion of the sampled data is caused to change to depict a different aggregated version of a portion of the sampled data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Edward Shepherd, Michael James Andrew Smith, George Comninos, Gavin Murray Peacock
  • Publication number: 20140282175
    Abstract: Method and systems of visually depicting hierarchical data are provided. The hierarchical data includes data pertaining to a plurality of categories, the hierarchical data further including data pertaining to a plurality of subcategories of at least one of the plurality of categories. Multiple viewing regions may then be displayed simultaneously on a display, each viewing region depicting a different view of the hierarchical data, objects displayed in each viewing region being color-coded with a different color for each category, such that an object corresponding to a first category in a first viewing region is displayed in an identical color as an object corresponding to the first category in a second viewing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael James Andrew Smith, Gavin Murray Peacock, Seth Walker, Adam Cath
  • Patent number: 5913614
    Abstract: A water conservation and delivery system for a building includes a first subsystem for dispensing clean water from a faucet, a second subsystem for draining waste water from the vessel supplied by the faucet, and a third subsystem for recirculating clean water prior to dispensement back into the dispensing subsystem while the dispensing temperature and flow are adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Inventors: James Andrew Smith, John Ross Elliott, Michael E.S. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 5680937
    Abstract: Horizontal facing slots for receiving CD cases or other objects are formed in a rotatable vertical post. The slots face radially outwardly and they are arranged in vertical columns. At each elevation, there is a pair of diametrically opposed slots. The slots of each pair are at a same elevation, and the slots in four consecutive pairs are all in different vertical columns. Preferably, there are eight columns and they are offset from each other by horizontal angles of 45.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: William H. Palmer
    Inventor: James Andrew Smith
  • Patent number: D392499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: William H. Palmer
    Inventor: James Andrew Smith