Patents by Inventor Paul W. Bennett

Paul W. Bennett 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).

  • Patent number: 6742162
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020143810
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020140734
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020143830
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020143831
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020143811
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020143730
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20020143809
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-based numerical calculation using a calcsheet are provided. A calcsheet may provide one or more columns for vertical calculation, each column having a plurality of fields including operation fields, number fields, and optional comment fields. The calcsheet may include multiple columns of vertical calculations. A user may type in calculations in a manner similar to the entry of calculations on a hand held calculator, and the calculations may be displayed in a vertical format in substantially any column. Number fields in a calcsheet may include mathematical formulas or references to other fields. A set of fields (such as all operation fields in a column, for example) may be hidden. The display order of fields may be altered. Parentheses spanning multiple rows may be used to alter the order of operations. Spreadsheet lines and vertical calculations may be used in a single document or display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett
  • Patent number: 6157380
    Abstract: In transferring a user application from an original user environment to a new user environment by dragging and dropping a graphical image representative of the user application, a new object or "shadow part" is automatically created in the new user environment with the same attributes as the user application in the original user environment. The new object also inherits the characteristics of other objects in the new user environment. The new object may optionally be linked to the original user application so that setting changes in one user environment are reflected in the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul W. Bennett, Sheila A. Harnett, Deepa S. Desai, Salil J. Kulkarni, Ann M. Robinson, Duane S. Wood
  • Patent number: 4217702
    Abstract: An educational graphic display apparatus which, by use of electronic techniques displays graphically a function of a variable. The only programming necessary is the selection of the function type and the setting of coefficient values and a sequence of functions with different coefficient values can be displayed without the necessity of complex reprogramming for each new function. The apparatus of this invention utilizes at least one integrator responsive to a reset control signal and a forward/reverse signal, each of which signals has high and low logic levels, as well as a reset value signal and a voltage input signal. The integrator's output is the sum of (i) a constant, capable of being established by the reset value signal whenever the reset control signal is high, and (ii) a constant times the integral of the voltage input signal over time beginning immediately after the reset control signal has returned to a low logic level after being at a high logic level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Inventor: Paul W. Bennett