Patents by Inventor Steven Briggs

Steven Briggs 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).

  • Method and system for providing a voice application bookmark
    Publication number: 20030088422
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a bookmark in a voice application is provided. The method generally includes allowing a user to access the voice application and provide input to the voice application; creating, upon a user request, a bookmark to a location in the voice application; and providing the user with access to the bookmark in the voice application in order to return to the bookmarked location. In one embodiment of the invention, creating a bookmark can include saving a pointer to the voice application; and saving a representation of vocal input by the user to the voice application up to the bookmarked location in the voice application, while providing the user with access to the bookmark location can include using the pointer to accessing the voice application; and replaying the representation of the interactions to progress through the voice page substantially up to the bookmarked location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Denenberg, C. Steven Briggs
  • Methods for enhancing disease resistance in plants
    Patent number: 6476292
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for enhancing disease resistance in plants are provided. The method involves transforming a plant with an avirulence gene or alternatively with an avirulence gene and the complementing resistance gene. A pathogen inducible promoter or alternatively a weak constitutive promoter is used to control the desired level of disease control in the plant. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided having enhanced disease resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Briggs, Carl R. Simmons, John T. Tossberg
  • Methods for enhancing disease resistance in plants
    Publication number: 20020029392
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for enhancing disease resistance in plants are provided. The method involves transforming a plant with an avirulence gene or alternatively with an avirulence gene and the complementing resistance gene. A pathogen inducible promoter or alternatively a weak constitutive promoter is used to control the desired level of disease control in the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Briggs, Carl R. Simmons, John T. Tossberg
  • Row address linking control system for video display terminal
    Patent number: 4249172
    Abstract: A logic control system for a video display terminal is disclosed for accommodating vertically and horizontally varying entry points to a video memory to acquire first character bytes of rows of video information for display on a CRT screen. Dynamically changeable display page snapshots of the video memory, and the formation of display pages from randomly located rows of video information within the video memory are thereby provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignee: Honeywell Information Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Watkins, C. Steven Briggs, John M. Doyle, Jr.