Patents by Inventor Sean Daniel Frank Sullivan

Sean Daniel Frank Sullivan 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).

  • Style specifications for systematically creating card-based hypermedia manuals
    Patent number: 6321244
    Abstract: A system that automatically restructures SGML documents into a format referred to as card-based documents is based on a Card Layout Style Specification Language (CLSSL). The CLSSL controls the information, arrangement, sequencing, and presentation features of the cards. The system includes a scroll-card transformer, a media-card extractor, a card style editor, a platform-independent generator and a platform dependent generator. SGML documents are first transformed in scroll-card transformer into cards based on various scroll-to-card transformation guidelines. The non-textual media that are associated with textual documents are also transformed in the media-card extractor by extracting a portion of the information for individual cards. Once the textual and non-textual documents are transformed properly into cards, the card layout style editor is used to create the formatting commands, referred to as Card Layout Style Specifications (CLSS), for each type of card in the card-based manual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Peiya Liu, Liang-Hua Hsu, Sean Daniel Frank Sullivan, Kenneth Hampel