Patents by Inventor Marshall Allan Atlas

Marshall Allan Atlas 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).

  • User-interactive data entry display system with entry fields having distinctive and changeable autocomplete
    Patent number: 6208339
    Abstract: A computer controlled interactive display system for for providing a user interface for data entry with user changeable autocomplete functions for the data entry fields. For each of the fields, there is provided autocomplete means, i.e. means for automatically providing a proposed completion of a user entry into at least one of said fields, and user-interactive means for selectively disabling or otherwise modifying said means for automatically providing a proposed completion. Further means are provided for indicating whether said means for automatically providing a proposed completion of user entries has been disabled for a data entry field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marshall Allan Atlas, Michael Franz DiAngelo, Richard Walton Ragan, Jr.