Patents by Inventor Jason L. Staczek

Jason L. Staczek 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: 7589749
    Abstract: A system provides interaction between graphical objects and a managing application by detecting that movement of a first graphical object relative to a second graphical object on the graphical user interface is within a spatial proximity. In response to the detection of movement, the system notifies the first graphical object of presence information related to the second graphical object. The presence information includes at least an identity of the second graphical object. The system forms an association between the first graphical object and the second graphical object based on the presence information, and then graphically alters a representation of at least one of the first graphical object and the second graphical object on the graphical user interface in response to the formation of the association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael S. De Laurentis, Benjamin P. Bauermeister, Jason L. Staczek, Yohko A. F. Kelley
  • Patent number: 5586242
    Abstract: A method for managing a plurality of different fonts that are installed on a computer. Raw font data for the plurality of fonts are stored in files on a computer hard disk (34). At least some of the fonts for which a character set is defined by the raw data are installed in the graphics user interface operating system running on a computer. The installed fonts are listed in a file (40). The method enables a user (22) to create one or more font menu lists (28) that are displayed to the user whenever selection of a font for use in a document by an application is desired. The font menu lists are subsets of the complete list of installed fonts on the operating system. Applications (42) can access any of the fonts installed on the system, but whenever a font must be selected by the user for use in a document, a more limited list of fonts appropriate for the application then running on the computer is displayed, reducing confusion as to the appropriate fonts that should be considered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Clyde D. McQueen, III, Benjamin P. Bauermeister, Jason L. Staczek, Michael S. DeLaurentis, Glenn G. Brooks