Patents by Inventor Robert J. Eggers

Robert J. Eggers 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: 20090070094
    Abstract: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for selectively modifying an electronic document by restoring user-selected portions of translated electronic document text to their original language are disclosed. Embodiments of a method for selectively modifying an electronic document may include receiving a request from a user to view a user selection of text of an electronic document in an original language instead of a second translated language where the electronic document has substantially all of its text in the second translated language. Embodiments may also include analyzing the request to determine an expanded selection to be changed into original replacement language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Steven F. Best, Robert J. Eggers, JR., Janice M. Girouard
  • Publication number: 20080256194
    Abstract: An email message content management method, system and program are provided for bookmarking subsets of electronic mail (email) message content for subsequent searching and retrieval. Subsets of email message content are designated and then identified to be bookmarked for subsequent searching and retrieval. Identification information such as file pointers and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) links identifying the bookmarked email message content are generated and then indexed such that the bookmarked content can be searched. A copy of the email message is then automatically and persistently stored in a predetermined location. The bookmarked email message content can subsequently be retrieved, either by browsing the copies of the stored email messages or by performing search operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Janice M. Girouard, Robert J. Eggers, Steven F. Best
  • Publication number: 20080250017
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-implementable method for aiding file searching within a file service by indexing historical filenames and locations. In response to receiving a request to alter a first name corresponding to a file within the file system to a second name, a file system manager associates the second name to the first name and to the file within the file system data structure. When receiving a request for a file, wherein the request includes the first name, the file system manager searches the file system for the file based on the first name. When determining the search based on the first name is not successful, the file system manager searches the file system data structure for the file based on the second name. When the second name is located within the file system data structure, the file system manager returns the file to fulfill the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Steven F. Best, Robert J. Eggers
  • Publication number: 20080126878
    Abstract: A computer program product and method for displaying trace log entries from a plurality of trace logs call for identifying trace log entries; determining a degree of relevancy for each of the trace log entries; and classifying the trace log entries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven F. Best, Robert J. Eggers, Janice M. Girouard, Barbara E. Wang
  • Patent number: 7287220
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods, systems, and programming for displaying media in a scaled manner and/or in an orientation other than an operating system displays its graphical user interface. Some embodiments lay out digital content at a virtual pixel resolution and then display a portion of the layout at a smaller display resolution by displaying images and text at scaled-down coordinates and scaled-down sizes, with the display of text being composed from a plurality of font bitmaps having character shapes and pixel alignments selected to improve readability at the scaled-down size. Some embodiments, which operate on computing systems having operating systems that display a graphical user interface in a portrait orientation, display a scaled-down representation of a web page in a landscape orientation, including displaying in such a landscape orientation scaled-down images and scaled-down text composed from a plurality of font bitmaps designed for the scaled-down size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Bitstream Inc.
    Inventors: Sampo J. Kaasila, Robert J. Eggers, Edward W. Porter
  • Publication number: 20040177323
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods, systems, and programming for displaying media in a scaled manner and/or in an orientation other than an operating system displays its graphical user interface. Some embodiments lay out digital content at a virtual pixel resolution and then display a portion of the layout at a smaller display resolution by displaying images and text at scaled-down coordinates and scaled-down sizes, with the display of text being composed from a plurality of font bitmaps having character shapes and pixel alignments selected to improve readability at the scaled-down size. Some embodiments, which operate on computing systems having operating systems that display a graphical user interface in a portrait orientation, display a scaled-down representation of a web page in a landscape orientation, including displaying in such a landscape orientation scaled-down images and scaled-down text composed from a plurality of font bitmaps designed for the scaled-down size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Sampo J. Kaasila, Robert J. Eggers, Edward W. Porter
  • Publication number: 20030095135
    Abstract: A bitmap of a shape, such as a font, can be subpixel optimized by producing for each of a display's subpixels a coverage value representing the percent of its area covered by the shape being represented and by distributing, to prevent color imbalance, an amount of a given subpixel's coverage value to nearby subpixels of different colors as a function of the percent of the given subpixel's coverage value that causes color imbalance. Web pages can be displayed with scaled-down and subpixel optimized images. A given layout of a Web page can be displayed at each of at least two different selected scale factors, with the font bitmaps used to represent characters in the display at each scale factor having their shape and pixel alignment selected to improve readability for the particular pixel size at which they are displayed at each such scale factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Sampo J. Kaasila, John S. Collins, Michael R. Dewsnap, Robert J. Eggers