Patents by Inventor Mike Vermilyea

Mike Vermilyea 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).

  • Systems and methods for providing a user-friendly computing environment for the hearing impaired
    Patent number: 6760408
    Abstract: A program enhancer system and method for embedding hearing-impaired friendly information into an existing computer program is provided. The existing computer program contains program information that is translated into a format usable by a hearing-impaired user. The systems and methods retrieves desired program information and translates the information into any of animation, digital movie and still image formats to be displayed to the user on a display device. A hyperlink is associated with the translated data and is stored in a memory device. The user can access the translated information using any type of input including hyperlink based inputs or natural language inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Cingular Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: David Crosson, Mike Vermilyea
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A USER-FRIENDLY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED
    Publication number: 20040066914
    Abstract: A program enhancer system and method for embedding hearing-impaired friendly information into an existing computer program is provided. The existing computer program contains program information that is translated into a format usable by a hearing-impaired user. The systems and methods retrieves desired program information and translates the information into any of animation, digital movie and still image formats to be displayed to the user on a display device. A hyperlink is associated with the translated data and is stored in a memory device. The user can access the translated information using any type of input including hyperlink based inputs or natural language inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: David Crosson, Mike Vermilyea