Patents by Inventor Tom Callaway

Tom Callaway 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).

  • Contextual graphical user interface training
    Patent number: 9620026
    Abstract: A method for contextual graphical user interface (GUI) training includes, with a training module, switching from a normal mode of the GUI to a lesson mode to provide a lesson to a user, the lesson being one of a number of lessons that were preselected by the user. The method further includes, while in the lesson mode, overlaying instructions of a task onto the GUI, with the training module, providing example user input to demonstrate the task, with the training module, undoing the task, prompting the user to perform the task, notifying the user that an input received by the computing system does not correspond to the demonstrated task, and recording completion of the task in response to input from the user, the input corresponding to successful completion of the demonstrated task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Maureen Emily Strode, Ryan John Lerch, Tom Callaway
  • Contextual Graphical User Interface Training
    Publication number: 20150248839
    Abstract: A method for contextual graphical user interface (GUI) training includes, with a training module, switching from a normal mode of the GUI to a lesson mode to provide a lesson to a user, the lesson being one of a number of lessons that were preselected by the user. The method further includes, while in the lesson mode, overlaying instructions of a task onto the GUI, with the training module, providing example user input to demonstrate the task, with the training module, undoing the task, prompting the user to perform the task, notifying the user that an input received by the computing system does not correspond to the demonstrated task, and recording completion of the task in response to input from the user, the input corresponding to successful completion of the demonstrated task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Maureen Emily Strode, Ryan John Lerch, Tom Callaway