Patents by Inventor Peter M. Makus

Peter M. Makus 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).

  • System for parsing multidimensional and multidirectional text into encoded units and storing each encoded unit as a separate data structure
    Patent number: 5182709
    Abstract: A method and apparatus editing and creating multidirectional or multidimensional text includes an editor responsive to keystrokes representing text characters and editing commands for generating a string of codes defining a text and a parser responsive to operation of the editor for reading the codes of the string and parsing the codes into encoded units. Each encoded unit is made up of a group of codes defining a group of characters that are positioned in an expression as a unit and the system further generates a unit structure for each encoded unit. Each unit structure contains information defining a visual representation of the corresponding encoded unit. The parser is responsive to operation of the editor for reading the unit structures and corresponding codes of the string and generating a visually displayable representation of the text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Wang Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter M. Makus