Patents by Inventor Susan McGuire

Susan McGuire 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: 20060026516
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for importing text into word processing documents. A target string that is specified by a user within a word processing document is identified, and references are searched for occurrences of the target string. Passages from the references that include the target string are displayed to the user. The user indicates text to be selected from a displayed passage, for example by highlighting the selected text. The selected text is then inserted into the word processing document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David LeGrys, Susan McGuire, David Schmidt, Eduardo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4282580
    Abstract: A hand-held calculator is provided, having a keyboard, visual display, microprocessor, and power source. The microprocessor is provided with a program that enables the user to enter a sequence of letter grades through the keyboard and compute a running average of the sequence. The current result of the average is visually displayed. The program also allows the user to delete entries from the sequence and adjust the average correspondingly, so that errors in the sequence may be corrected. Further, the program enables the user to calculate running averages of subsequences of grades simultaneously with the overall sequence average, so that grade averages for individual students may be computed at the same time that the grand average over all students is being computed. The display may be switched to indicate either the sequence average or subsequence average at the user's command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Inventors: Susan McGuire, Michael Cannon