Patents by Inventor Richard A. Gammons

Richard A. Gammons 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).

  • User interface for improving the findability of contextually related data elements in a 3D data visualization
    Patent number: 10353538
    Abstract: A user interface method comprises: causing a plurality of first objects to be displayed; causing one or more second objects to be displayed, each second object associated on the display with one or more of the first objects; and, in response to an input, causing at least one of the first objects to be displayed with decreased prominence and causing at least one second object that is associated with the first object to be displayed such that the relative decrease in prominence of the second object, if any, is less than the relative decrease in prominence of the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventor: Richard Gammons
  • DISTRIBUTING CONTENT USING A SMARTPHONE
    Publication number: 20160277476
    Abstract: A method of distributing content using a smartphone (110) includes capturing an image of a machine-readable (102) code with the smartphone. The machine-readable code (102) is decoded to extract information which is transmitted from the smartphone (110) to a server computer (130). The information or content associated with the information from the server computer (130) is transmitted to a local computer (120) and the content associated with the information, or the information is displayed (150) on the local computer (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas D. Pawlik, Richard A. Gammons, Ronald S. Cok
  • USER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20130185642
    Abstract: A user interface method comprises: causing a plurality of first objects to be displayed; causing one or more second objects to be displayed, each second object associated on the display with one or more of the first objects; and, in response to an input, causing at least one of the first objects to be displayed with decreased prominence and causing at least one second object that is associated with the first object to be displayed such that the relative decrease in prominence of the second object, if any, is less than the relative decrease in prominence of the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventor: Richard Gammons