Patents by Inventor Ryan Eric Smith

Ryan Eric Smith 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: 9852113
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for content driven selection of a rendering engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for or content driven selection of a rendering engine can include retrieving content for display in a content browser executing in memory by a processor of a host computer, mapping at least one directive embedded in the retrieved content to a target rendering engine, selecting the target rendering engine for rendering the content, and passing the content to the selected target rendering engine. In this regard, in an aspect of the embodiment, multiple directives embedded in the retrieved content can be mapped, each to one of a selection of different target rendering engines, and a most often mapped one of the target rendering engines can be selected for rendering the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Adam Ross Cook, Jonathan Lidaka, Ryan Eric Smith
  • Publication number: 20170139656
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for streaming a walkthrough for an application or an online service. A database storing data objects identifying walkthroughs and walkthrough stages can be maintained. A request can be received from a first computing device of an author of a first walkthrough. A first walkthrough stage of the first walkthrough can be generated. The first walkthrough stage can comprise an interactive demonstration of a first feature of the application or online service. The first walkthrough stage can be caused to be displayed in a first user interface at a second computing device of a user interacting with the first walkthrough. Input can be received from the second computing device. It can be determined that the user has performed an interaction with the first feature. A visual indicator can be caused to be displayed in a second user interface at the first computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Heather Nicole Sterling, Ryan Eric Smith, Joel Benjamin Allen
  • Publication number: 20160246467
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for automatically generating a walkthrough of an application or an online service. For example, a database storing data objects identifying walkthrough stages can be maintained. Each walkthrough stage can be associated with one or more features of an application or a service. An identification of a first feature of a first application or service can be received. It can be determined that the first feature is associated with a first user interface layout of the application when presented in a user interface of a computing device. One or more of the walkthrough stages can be identified as being relevant based on the first user interface layout and one or more data objects in the database. The one or more relevant walkthrough stages can be processed to generate a walkthrough. The walkthrough can be stored as a data file in a database of a database system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Everett Jemiolo, Joel Benjamin Allen, Ryan Eric Smith
  • Publication number: 20130318433
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for content driven selection of a rendering engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for or content driven selection of a rendering engine can include retrieving content for display in a content browser executing in memory by a processor of a host computer, mapping at least one directive embedded in the retrieved content to a target rendering engine, selecting the target rendering engine for rendering the content, and passing the content to the selected target rendering engine. In this regard, in an aspect of the embodiment, multiple directives embedded in the retrieved content can be mapped, each to one of a selection of different target rendering engines, and a most often mapped one of the target rendering engines can be selected for rendering the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Adam Ross Cook, Jonathan Lidaka, Ryan Eric Smith