Alan W Esenther, 6161 Wilbur Dr, Ashland, MA 01721

7139006, Nov 21, 2006

Feb 4, 2003

10/357562

Kent B. Wittenburg - Lynnfield MA, US
Thomas R. Lanning - Littleton MA, US
Clifton L. Forlines - Cambridge MA, US
Alan W. Esenther - Ashland MA, US

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc - Cambridge MA

G09G 5/00
G06T 13/00

345679, 345959, 345473

A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of display images is rendered according to the layout and the trajectory. The set of active images includes a collector image. The collector images is rendered statically in a collector frame of an image plane of the display device, while remaining images in the set of active images are rendered dynamically on the image plane. Then, the layout and trajectory are animated according user input, and the rendering and animating is repeated until a termination condition is reached.

7598977, Oct 6, 2009

Apr 28, 2005

11/116976

Kathleen Ryall - Cambridge MA, US
Qing Li - Blacksburg VA, US
Alan W. Esenther - Ashland MA, US

H04N 7/18
G06K 9/00
G06K 9/34

348143, 348135, 382107, 382173

A method summarizes a video acquired of a scene spatially and temporally by specifying a spatial query and a temporal query. Frames of the video are selected according to the spatial query and the temporal query, and then the selected frames are composited into an image that represents spatial and temporal characteristics of the scene.

2002013, Sep 26, 2002

Mar 21, 2001

09/814190

Alan Esenther - Ashland MA, US

Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America, Inc. (ITA)

G06F015/16

709/227000, 709/203000

A computerized system enables multiple users of standard Internet web browsers to collaborate by having significant states of their browser, such as which web page is currently being viewed, scrollbar positions, and form values, to be remotely controlled by users of other Internet web browsers. The system uses a monitor to poll the static and dynamic state of the selected pages, and to communicate the state with a controller executing on a web server. The content of the collaboratively viewed pages is arbitrary because viewed pages remain unmodified. Therefore, pre-existing web pages can be collaboratively browsed. Each of the users is optionally a sender or a receiver of selected web pages, and therefore is allowed to control which web pages are collaboratively viewed.

2007025, Nov 8, 2007

May 3, 2006

11/416719

Alan Esenther - Ashland MA, US
Kathleen Ryall - Wayland MA, US

G06F 3/041

345173000

A computer implemented method for emulating a mouse with a multi-touch sensitive display surface. Sensing a touching, movement or tapping by one or several fingers or fist emulates mechanical mouse functionality. Sensing a first touching by a first finger at a first location on a multi-touch sensitive display surface and sensing concurrently a second touching by a second finger at a second location on the multi-touch sensitive display surface displays a graphic object on the multi-touch display surface at a position dependent on the first location and the second location to emulate moving a mouse.

2007026, Nov 8, 2007

May 8, 2006

11/430234

Clifton Forlines - Brookline MA, US
Alan Esenther - Ashland MA, US
Chia Shen - Lexington MA, US
Daniel Wigdor - Toronto, CA
Kathleen Ryall - Wayland MA, US

G06F 15/16

709203000

The invention provides a method and system for adapting a single-user, single-client application for multiple clients operated by multiple users. An instance of an unmodified single-client, single-user application is executed in each of the clients, and the execution of the multiple instances of the application is coordinated by a wrapper application executing in each of the clients. The wrapper application is configured to communicate messages between the clients via a network to facilitate the coordination.

2009004, Feb 12, 2009

Aug 7, 2007

11/835068

Alan W. Esenther - Ashland MA, US

G06F 3/041

345173

A primary image is displayed a touch sensitive surface while touches at a first location and a second location on the touch sensitive surface are sensed. A baseline between the first location and the second location is determined. The baseline has a length and orientation. A secondary image comparable to the primary image is displayed. The secondary image has a size and a point of view corresponding respectively to the length and orientation of the baseline. Multiple users can also interact with the primary image simultaneously.

2010008, Apr 1, 2010

Sep 29, 2008

12/239859

Daniel N. Nikovski - Brookline MA, US
Alan W. Esenther - Ashland MA, US

G06F 17/30

715234

Embodiments of the invention describe a computer-implemented method for extracting data from web pages. During a learning stage, the embodiments receive a template web page represented by a template Document Object Model (DOM) and select a record node, which is a root node of a sub-tree of the template DOM that contains data to be extracted. After that, a record node sub-tree and data field sub-paths are stored in a memory, wherein the record node is a root node of the record node sub-tree, and the data field sub-paths are relative paths of the template DOM from the record node to data field nodes. During the extraction stage, a web page represented by a DOM-tree is received and a matched sub-tree of the DOM-tree according to a structure of the record node sub-tree is identified. Next, data from the matched sub-tree according to the data field sub-paths are extracted.

2012006, Mar 22, 2012

Jul 29, 2011

13/194597

Alan W. Esenther - Ashland MA, US
Kathleen Ryall - Wayland MA, US

G06F 3/045

345174

A computer implemented method for emulating a mouse with a multi-touch sensitive display surface, wherein a touching of the multi-touch sensitive display surface by a user creates a capacitive coupling between the user and the multi-touch sensitive display surface at a location of the touching. The method senses concurrently a first touching by a first finger at a first location on a multi-touch sensitive display surface and a second touching by a second finger at a second location on the multi-touch sensitive display surface, wherein the sensing uses capacitive couplings between the user and the multi-touch sensitive display surface; and displays a graphic object on the multi-touch display surface at a position dependent on the first location and the second location.