Patents by Inventor Loc V. Nguyen

Loc V. Nguyen 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 and apparatus for displaying layered user interface
    Publication number: 20070271532
    Abstract: A method including displaying an initial navigation layer in a fixed focus area on a screen, the initial navigation layer including a plurality of graphical navigation icon blocks; displaying a stacked graphical navigation icon block representative of the initial layer and graphical navigation icon blocks representative of subsequent navigation layers as a visible stack in a fixed focus area on the screen after a graphical navigation icon block from the initial layer has been selected such that a followed path is visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Loc V. Nguyen, Edward C. Drake
  • Concentric curvilinear menus for a graphical user interface
    Patent number: 7036091
    Abstract: A user interface includes a first menu comprising a first set of selectable options circumferentially disposed on the first menu. In response to a selection of an option from the first menu, a second menu is displayed. The second menu may be concentrically-disposed relative to the first menu. The second menu includes a second set of circumferentially-disposed, selectable options, which may or may not be hierarchically related to the first set of selectable options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventor: Loc V. Nguyen
  • Concentric polygonal menus for a graphical user interface
    Patent number: 7036090
    Abstract: A user interface includes a first menu comprising a first set of selectable options circumferentially disposed on the first menu. In response to a selection of an option from the first menu, a second menu is displayed. The second menu may be concentrically-disposed relative to the first menu. The second menu includes a second set of circumferentially-disposed, selectable options, which may or may not be hierarchically related to the first set of selectable options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventor: Loc V. Nguyen
  • User interface design for a television display screen
    Patent number: D474197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventor: Loc V. Nguyen
  • User interface for a television display screen
    Patent number: D478090
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventors: Loc V. Nguyen, Dewey Reid, Philip Rogan