Patents by Inventor Rick Paul Hoover

Rick Paul Hoover 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).

  • Publication number: 20040205512
    Abstract: Method, system and processing system for associating text messages and/or uniform resource locator (URL) link data with images created by an image capture device such as a camera. Resource locator links displayed along with the images are activated at the image capture device or at a host processing system to establish communications links and access to remote resources, such as a Web pages, that are associated with the activated resource locator links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Rick Paul Hoover, Terry P. Mahoney
  • Patent number: 6753977
    Abstract: Machine-readable information provided on a printed document in the form of printed marks which are not visually perceptible to the human eye. The printed marks are of a combination of sufficiently small size and selected color which renders the printed marks visually imperceptible to the human eye, yet easily detectable by a machine such as a scanner. The printed marks are dispersed across portions of or all of the printed document in selected patterns for encoding information, such as in a bar code, or the information may merely be printed text. The marks representing the information are printed in unused blank space between or surrounding existing text and other images on the printed document thus avoiding the use of any additional surface area of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Rick Paul Hoover
  • Publication number: 20020101597
    Abstract: Machine-readable information provided on a printed document in the form of printed marks which are not visually perceptible to the human eye. The printed marks are of a combination of sufficiently small size and selected color which renders the printed marks visually imperceptible to the human eye, yet easily detectable by a machine such as a scanner. The printed marks are dispersed across portions of or all of the printed document in selected patterns for encoding information, such as in a bar code, or the information may merely be printed text. The marks representing the information are printed in unused blank space between or surrounding existing text and other images on the printed document thus avoiding the use of any additional surface area of the media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventor: Rick Paul Hoover