Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Ruffles

Joseph W. Ruffles 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: 6122647
    Abstract: A system, method, and software product create contextual hypertext links relevant to a user selected portion of a source document. The contextual links enable the user to dynamically associate the source document with any available target document, regardless of whether links where created between the source document and the target document when the source document was created. The method includes selecting terms relevant to the user selected portion by linguistic analysis which selects the most frequently occurring terms. From the selected terms target documents relevant to the selected terms are identified. The target documents are selected by identifying topics that are associated with, or described by, the selected terms. Contextual links are created between the selected terms and target documents associated with the identified topics using the URLs for the documents in the contextual links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Perspecta, Inc.
    Inventors: Damon M. Horowitz, Earl F. Rennison, Joseph W. Ruffles, Lisa S. Strausfeld
  • Patent number: 5553620
    Abstract: The use of menu branches associated with a patient's potential condition aids in the accuracy and efficiency of an ultrasound measurement system. The menu branches use a set of suggested measurements to produce results that allow for the evaluation of the potential condition of the patient. The set of suggested measurements can be less than all of the possible measurements for the calculation package. The user no longer has to skip through a large menu full of irrelevant measurement selections. For this reason, the user is less likely to skip pertinent measurements or do time consuming measurements which are irrelevant to evaluate the potential condition. The time savings is important since the user of the ultrasound measurement system may be under severe time pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Acuson Corporation
    Inventors: A. Rebecca Snider, Richard M. Bennett, Laurence J. McCabe, Peter J. Magsig, Kane L. Ng, Lynn M. Purdy, Joseph W. Ruffles