Patents by Inventor Zachary Tyler Nies

Zachary Tyler Nies 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 apparatus for generating multi-media presentations
    Patent number: 6081262
    Abstract: The multi-media presentation generation system combines media objects of multiple diverse types into an integrated multi-media presentation. The resultant multi-media presentation can be defined in an output-independent representation, which the multi-media presentation generation system converts into a representation that is optimized for the destination storage and/or presentation medium selected by the author. The multi-media presentation generation system uses a page based document layout paradigm to regulate the spatial relationships among the plurality of objects contained within the multi-media presentation. The page based document layout system partitions document pages, as defined by the author, into a plurality of objects, each of which is independently editable by the author. A multi-media authoring tool extends the capabilities of the page based document layout system to enable an author to merge both static and dynamic objects in a page layout environment to create the multi-media presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Quark, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Earl Gill, David Arthur Knoshaug, Zachary Tyler Nies, Edwin Van Horn Post