Patents by Inventor William D. Dozier

William D. Dozier 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: 8782516
    Abstract: Determination of content style attributes of an image having content thereon is disclosed. The content may be a paragraph of text with a column layout designation. The content style attribute determination may include determining one or more of paragraph alignment, vertical and horizontal margin values, indentation, line spacing, and tracking values. The content style attributes may be determined for each paragraph separately or by grouping paragraphs by the column layout designation. The content style attributes may be used to format content in images for presentation on end user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Dozier
  • Patent number: 8171351
    Abstract: An information collection system may include a server and one or more user devices that are in electronic communication with each other. Information may be collected by the user devices. For example, a user device may collect information regarding an error that occurred on the device. A server may monitor the user devices and receive information reports from those devices. The server may also instruct the user devices to perform self-corrective actions based on information received from those devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Beryl Tomay, Howard S. Kapustein, William D. Dozier, John B. Roy, II, Paul F. Ferraro, David Berbessou