Patents by Inventor Michael Hadley Skelton

Michael Hadley Skelton 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).

  • Mechanism for fine-grained and coarse-grained control of zooming in a display of a one-dimensional data set
    Patent number: 5910801
    Abstract: A zoom control mechanism includes a context display for displaying a representation of a data set, a zoom display for displaying a representation of a zoom interval within the data set, a context indicator that indicates a start point or an end point of a zoom interval within a context display, and a zoom indicator, corresponding to the context indicator, that indicates the start point or end point of the zoom interval within the zoom display. The zoom interval is updated according to user selection and movement of the context indicator and the zoom indicator to a new location within the context display and the zoom display, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Savoye Rosenburg, Tova Roth, Michael Hadley Skelton, James Hoyet Summers
  • Mechanism for fine-grained and coarse-grained control of zooming in a display of a one-dimensional data set
    Patent number: 5790819
    Abstract: A zoom control mechanism includes a context display for displaying a representation of a data set, a zoom display for displaying a representation of a zoom interval within the data set, a context indicator that indicates a start point or an end point of a zoom interval within a context display, and a zoom indicator, corresponding to the context indicator, that indicates the start point or end point of the zoom interval within the zoom display. The zoom interval is updated according to user selection and movement of the context indicator or the zoom indicator to a new location within the context display and the zoom display, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Savoye Rosenburg, Tova Roth, Michael Hadley Skelton, James Hoyet Summers