Patents by Inventor Joseph Eric Firebaugh

Joseph Eric Firebaugh 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 providing functional context within an actively scrolling view pane
    Patent number: 7735019
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for using a context aware viewport module to graphically display, and interact with, a viewport. The context aware viewport is implemented in a graphical user interface (GUI) and comprises a spatially context aware informational portion and a viewport portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Eric Firebaugh, Santiago D. Oretega, Ryan Alexander Boyles, Laquicia Shianna Barbee
  • Method for Providing Functional Context Within an Actively Scrolling View Pane
    Publication number: 20080270934
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for using a context aware viewport module to graphically display, and interact with, a viewport. The context aware viewport is implemented in a graphical user interface (GUI) and comprises a spatially context aware informational portion and a viewport portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Joseph Eric Firebaugh, Santiago D. Ortega, Ryan Alexander Boyles, Laquicia Shianna Barbee
  • Methods and apparatus for providing a topology view based on heuristic information density
    Patent number: 6865483
    Abstract: A technique is provided to display a view perspective of an electronic map containing a number of viewable points of interest about a point of reference. The technique assigns a weighted importance value to each point of interest. Before displaying the view perspective of the requested map, the weighted importance value of each point of interest is summed and compared against a target value. If the summed weight substantially equals the predefined, the corresponding viewable points of interest are displayed in the view perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Andrew Cook, III, Stephen Merrell Diering, Joseph Eric Firebaugh, Robert Charles Leah