Patents by Inventor Michael Thrall

Michael Thrall 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).

  • Reconstitute tag-delimited tables in a graphics editing application
    Patent number: 8078964
    Abstract: A system and method is described for reconstituting a tag-delimited table structure into a file editable by a graphics editing application, the tag-delimited table structure defining an assembly of visible content, the method comprising parsing the tag-delimited table structure into a plurality of cells, generating a slice region within the file of the graphics editing application corresponding to each of said plurality of cells, calculating a cell boundary for each of the plurality of cells, setting a slice boundary according to the calculated cell boundary, and assembling the visible content into the associated slice regions in the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Thrall, Brian Edgin
  • Reconstitute tag-delimited tables in a graphics editing application
    Patent number: 7337398
    Abstract: A system and method is described for reconstituting a tag-delimited table structure into a file editable by a graphics editing application, the tag-delimited table structure defining an assembly of visible content, the method comprising parsing the tag-delimited table structure into a plurality of cells, generating a slice region within the file of the graphics editing application corresponding to each of said plurality of cells, calculating a cell boundary for each of the plurality of cells, setting a slice boundary according to the calculated cell boundary, and assembling the visible content into the associated slice regions in the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Thrall, Brian Edgin