Patents by Inventor John Jacob Ellenich

John Jacob Ellenich 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: 9274695
    Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed including a parallax Graphical User Interface (GUI) software component configured to allow automatic, parallax-type, smooth movement of multiple information panels out of user's view when focus is placed on one of the multiple information panels and the focus information panel is scrolled. When the user scrolls in the opposite direction, the non-focus panels reappear smoothly and automatically and the original user view before scrolling is restored. In various embodiments, search results may be categorized and organized into separate windows, each independently scrollable, which may be viewed using the parallax GUI. In various embodiments, a number of documents and/or software applications used to open such documents, may be registered in a parallax list to allow navigation using the parallax GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventors: John Jacob Ellenich, Robert Theodore Derstadt
  • Publication number: 20140317556
    Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed including a parallax Graphical User Interface (GUI) software component configured to allow automatic, parallax-type, smooth movement of multiple information panels out of user's view when focus is placed on one of the multiple information panels and the focus information panel is scrolled. When the user scrolls in the opposite direction, the non-focus panels reappear smoothly and automatically and the original user view before scrolling is restored. In various embodiments, search results may be categorized and organized into separate windows, each independently scrollable, which may be viewed using the parallax GUI. In various embodiments, a number of documents and/or software applications used to open such documents, may be registered in a parallax list to allow navigation using the parallax GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: John Jacob Ellenich, Robert Theodore Derstadt
  • Publication number: 20140179354
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining data describing one or more customer contacts of a user from a third-party content provider; matching the one or more customer contacts to respective additional third-party content associated with the one or more customer contacts; deriving geographic location information for one or more of the customer contacts based on the additional third-party content; receiving a geographic location of the user; determining one or more contact opportunities based on the geographic location of the user, the geographic location information for the one or more customer contacts, and one or more presentation criteria; and providing data describing the one or more contact opportunities to a user device for presentation, wherein the data is presented on a user interface of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Ian David Robert Fisher, Daniel William James McCall, John Jacob Ellenich
  • Publication number: 20140181992
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a user login request originating from a user device, the user login request including a user identifier; authenticating, based on the user identifier, the user as having access to information associated with a particular tenant of a plurality of tenants; identifying a tenant specified theme associated with the particular tenant of a plurality of tenant themes, the theme being specified by the tenant for use in presenting data to authenticated users; obtaining data associated with the particular tenant; and providing the data associated with the particular tenant to the user device for presentation, wherein the data is presented on a user interface of the user device, the data being formatted based on the identified tenant theme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Alexander Janson, Ian David Robert Fisher, Christopher Michael O'Connor, Daniel William James McCall, John Jacob Ellenich