Patrick W Laffey, 72613 Harthan St, Austin, TX 78703

6844887, Jan 18, 2005

Jul 5, 2001

09/899458

Patrick Justin Laffey - Cedar Park TX, US
Jessica Kelley Murillo - Hutto TX, US
Johnny Meng-Han Shieh - Austin TX, US
Kim-Khanh Vu Tran - Austin TX, US
Scott Trieu Tran - Austin TX, US

International Business Machine Corporation - Armonk NY

G09G 500

345861, 345835, 345846, 345856, 345859, 345860, 345862

In an interactive display interface, an implementation switching to an alternate smaller sized cursor when the original sized cursor does not have the minimum clearance between the target icon and other adjacent icons to permit a clear user selection of the target icon. A predetermined minimum clearance factor is set. As the cursor moves toward the target icon, there is a determination made as to whether the arrangement of the target icon with respect to its adjacent icons exceeds the minimum clearance factor. If not, there is an implementation for reducing the size of the cursor so that the minimum clearance factor is exceeded.

6886138, Apr 26, 2005

Jul 5, 2001

09/899604

Patrick Justin Laffey - Cedar Park TX, US
Gerald Francis McBrearty - Austin TX, US
Jessica Kelley Murillo - Hutto TX, US
Johnny Meng-Han Shieh - Austin TX, US
Kim-Khanh Vu Tran - Austin TX, US
Scott Trieu Tran - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G09G005/00

715860, 715856, 715859, 715862, 715837

In an interactive display interface, an implementation for highlighting all icons in any set of a plurality of the icons, wherein each icon in the set is within a predetermined distance of an approaching pointer or cursor. In other words, the point of the pointer or cursor may be considered to be surrounded by a circular halo with a radius of said predetermined distance. The user moves the cursor in a standard manner. However, if the icons that the moving cursor is approaching are so densely spaced that more than one icon comes within the halo, then all of the icons within this set of the plurality of icons is highlighted to give the user a more distinct choice. The highlighting of each of the highlighted icons is ended when the pointer moves outside of the predetermined distance or halo radius.

8589229, Nov 19, 2013

Aug 23, 2010

12/861126

Patrick Laffey - Austin TX, US
Daniel N. Nguyen - Austin TX, US
Vit T. Tran - Austin TX, US
Kim-Khanh V. Trans - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04Q 7/20

705 1458, 4554566, 455457, 3409951, 34099512

Immediate changes and updates in a Global Positioning System (GPS) providing wireless communication display devices with displayed maps of a defined areas with traffic and objects of interest information are implemented through broadcasting short range RF information relative to an object from an object located within the defined area. When this broadcast information is received by the transceiver of any wireless display device within RF broadcast range, the receiving device obtains the position of the object from a GPS satellite based upon the information received by the wireless display device and the object and the information are displayed.

2003000, Jan 9, 2003

Jul 5, 2001

09/899616

Patrick Laffey - Cedar Park TX, US
Jessica Murillo - Hutto TX, US
Johnny Shieh - Austin TX, US
Kim-Khanh Tran - Austin TX, US
Scott Tran - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F003/00

345/862000

In an interactive display interface, an implementation for setting up around each of the selectable items, e.g. icons, a perimeter zone or halo at a predetermined distance from the perimeter of the item or icon. Thus, when an icon with such a halo is approached by an on-screen pointer, e.g. cursor, there are means for moving an adjacent icon which is within this halo to a screen position beyond this predetermined distance, i.e halo. The moved adjacent icons are subsequently returned to their original positions after a set period of time or after the pointer or cursor has moved beyond the approached icon. One aspect of this invention is directed to an icon state wherein said adjacent icons and selectable icons overlap each other and, thus, it is difficult for the user to distinguish which icon he wishes to select. For such a situation, the invention further includes means for user selection of icons which includes means for sequentially moving all other icons away from each of the overlapping icons for said predetermined period of time to thereby expose each of the overlapping icons in combination with means for sequentially enabling the user selection of each exposed icon.

2003021, Nov 20, 2003

May 16, 2002

10/150112

David Batten - Leander TX, US
Kyusun Chang - Austin TX, US
Vandana Kumar - Austin TX, US
Patrick Laffey - Cedar Park TX, US
Kim-Khanh Tran - Austin TX, US
Vi Tran - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F015/16
G06F015/173

709/223000, 709/203000

The present invention provides a system and a method for remotely managing a server processing system, by using a wireless communications device. The wireless communications device sends a request for managing the server processing system to the server processing system through a gateway. The request is formatted in a first protocol in the wireless communications device, and is sent to the gateway. The gateway converts the request to be formatted in a second protocol, and sends the request to the server processing system. In response to the request, the server processing system sends a response, formatted in the second protocol, to the wireless communications device through the gateway. This time, the gateway converts the response to be formatted in the first protocol, and sends the response to the wireless communications device.

2006001, Jan 12, 2006

Jul 8, 2004

10/887523

Patrick Laffey - Cedar Park TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 3/00

715808000, 715809000

Method, system and computer program product for controlling the closing of a window on a display screen in a data processing system. A system for controlling the closing of a window has a first functionality for locking a window against being closed by a single, user initiated closing action, and a second functionality for closing the locked window by a plurality of user initiated closing actions. Because a plurality of closing actions is required to close a window, the unintended closing of a window is substantially prevented.