Patents by Inventor William Monroe Turpin

William Monroe Turpin 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).

  • Graphical programming system and methods for assisting a user with creating screen objects on a screen device
    Patent number: 5745712
    Abstract: A system for creation and completion of goal oriented electronic forms creates a graphical image data file which defines: a graphical image of a form for display and printing; a graphical image of tree branches, tree nodes, and conclusions in association with fields of the form; reading and writing links between form fields and data sources and destinations; and links to other forms which, with the original form, comprise a related stack of forms. The system includes a form creation mode and a run time mode. The trees are defined by an application developer using the form creation mode to establish both qualitative and quantitative relationships between the various fields on the forms thereby providing the basis for the goal oriented prompting for the application user using the run time mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Borland International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Monroe Turpin, Kevin Lane Brown, Steven Ward Bogrett
  • Graphical programming system and methods with user interface
    Patent number: 5742836
    Abstract: A system for creation and completion of goal oriented electronic forms creates a graphical image data file which defines: a graphical image of a form for display and printing; a graphical image of tree branches, tree nodes, and conclusions in association with fields of the form; reading and writing links between form fields and data sources and destinations; and links to other forms which, with the original form, comprise a related stack of forms. The system includes a form creation mode and a run time mode. The trees are defined by an application developer using the form creation mode to establish both qualitative and quantitative relationships between the various fields on the forms thereby providing the basis for the goal oriented prompting for the application user using the run time mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Borland International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Monroe Turpin, Kevin Lane Brown, Steven Ward Bogrett
  • Development system and methods for visually creating goal oriented electronic form applications having decision trees
    Patent number: 5640501
    Abstract: A system for creation and completion of goal oriented electronic forms creates a graphical image data file which defines: a graphical image of a form for display and printing; a graphical image of tree branches, tree nodes, and conclusions in association with fields of the form; reading and writing links between form fields and data sources and destinations; and links to other forms which, with the original form, comprise a related stack of forms. The system includes a form creation mode and a run time mode. The trees are defined by an application developer using the form creation mode to establish both qualitative and quantitative relationships between the various fields on the forms thereby providing the basis for the goal oriented prompting for the application user using the run time mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Borland International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Monroe Turpin