Patents by Inventor Joseph C. DiVita

Joseph C. DiVita 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 for analyzing GUI design affordances
    Patent number: 9323418
    Abstract: A method for analysis of a prototype graphical user interface (GUI) comprising the following steps: receiving, with a processor, a computer code representative of the prototype GUI, wherein the prototype GUI comprises GUI elements having known identities and known behavioral attributes; transforming the computer code into a description of visible sub-elements of the prototype GUI elements, wherein each sub-element has visual properties that would be visible to a user of the prototype GUI; grouping particular visible sub-elements into a perceived GUI element based only on the sub-elements' visual properties according to a grouping algorithm without regard to the known identity(ies) of the prototype GUI element(s) to which the particular sub-elements belong; and storing, in a non-transitory first memory store, the perceived GUI element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Joseph C. DiVita, Robert L. Morris
  • Method for Analyzing GUI Design Affordances
    Publication number: 20140068470
    Abstract: A method for analysis of a prototype graphical user interface (GUI) comprising the following steps: receiving, with a processor, a computer code representative of the prototype GUI, wherein the prototype GUI comprises GUI elements having known identities and known behavioral attributes; transforming the computer code into a description of visible sub-elements of the prototype GUI elements, wherein each sub-element has visual properties that would be visible to a user of the prototype GUI; grouping particular visible sub-elements into a perceived GUI element based only on the sub-elements' visual properties according to a grouping algorithm without regard to the known identity(ies) of the prototype GUI element(s) to which the particular sub-elements belong; and storing, in a non-transitory first memory store, the perceived GUI element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Joseph C. DiVita, Robert L. Morris