Patents by Inventor Jean Michel Decombe

Jean Michel Decombe 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).

  • Interface for displaying and exploring hierarchical information
    Patent number: 7290223
    Abstract: A user interface is animated and configurable to optimize, facilitate and simplify displaying on a display device and exploring via user input a hierarchy of information accessible by an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Michel Decombe
  • User interface for exploring a graph of information
    Patent number: 7036093
    Abstract: A method for displaying a source node having connections to contained nodes and linked nodes peripherally within and around the source node to which they are connected, computing a focus position for each of the contained and linked nodes; displaying a first contained node at an inclusion start angle, and displaying a first linked node at an adjacency start angle. Focus positions are calculated for a first contained node and a first linked node based on the start angles, a direction of rotation, either clockwise or counterclockwise, and the number of contained and linked nodes connected to the source node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Decombe
  • Interface for displaying and exploring hierarchical information
    Publication number: 20050114786
    Abstract: A user interface is animated and configurable to optimize, facilitate and simplify displaying on a display device and exploring via user input a hierarchy of information accessible by an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventor: Jean Michel Decombe
  • User interface for bicontextual exploration of a graph
    Patent number: 6888554
    Abstract: A user interface with parameters that can be adjusted to display only a few nodes, in order to facilitate exploration, or many nodes simultaneously, in order to facilitate an user's understanding of a graph of nodes of information. The user interface provides for exploring a collection of connected objects simultaneously from the hierarchical and the relational points of view, and increases exposure to related information while maintaining context. Parameters can be adjusted to increase or decrease the extent of the relational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Decombe
  • User interface for displaying and exploring hierarchical information
    Patent number: 6879332
    Abstract: A user interface is animated and configurable to optimize, facilitate and simplify displaying on a display device and exploring via user input a hierarchy of information accessible by an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Michel Decombe
  • User interface for displaying and exploring hierarchical information
    Publication number: 20020145623
    Abstract: A user interface is animated and configurable to optimize, facilitate and simplify displaying on a display device and exploring via user input a hierarchy of information accessible by an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventor: Jean Michel Decombe
  • User interface for exploring a graph of information
    Publication number: 20020054166
    Abstract: A method for displaying a source node having connections to contained nodes and linked nodes peripherally within and around the source node to which they are connected, computing a focus position for each of the contained and linked nodes; displaying a first contained node at an inclusion start angle, and displaying a first linked node at an adjacency start angle. Focus positions are calculated for a first contained node and a first linked node based on the start angles, a direction of rotation, either clockwise or counterclockwise, and the number of contained and linked nodes connected to the source node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Decombe
  • Graphical information interface for a display
    Patent number: D513511
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Michel Decombe
  • Graphical information interface for a display
    Patent number: D528556
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Michel Decombe
  • Graphical information interface for a display
    Patent number: D545323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Decombe
  • Graphical information interface for a display
    Patent number: D545324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Decombe
  • Knowledge map user interface for a display
    Patent number: D485279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel DeCombe
  • Graphical information interface for a display
    Patent number: D497617
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Decombe, Raymond J. Pittman, Paul Hawken