WILLIAM FRANCIS PHILLIPS
Pilots at Woodhaven Dr, Flemingville, NY

6986143, Jan 10, 2006

Sep 19, 2001

09/955771

Gary L. Cole - Endicott NY, US
William F. Phillips - Owego NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G00F 9/44

719315, 717108, 717116, 717118, 717140, 707103 Y

Objects of one object model (e. g. , a Common Object Model (COM)) are called by programs of another object model (e. g. , Java). To facilitate the call, a set of interfaces is generated that corresponds to the interfaces of a COM typelib. The interfaces include enough information to enable type-checking of the generated code to be performed during compilation, but do not include implementations of the interfaces. The implementations are included in a proxy object, which is employed in making the call to the COM object.

6487588, Nov 26, 2002

Sep 23, 1996

08/717668

William F. Phillips - Owego NY
Joan M. Reester - Vestal NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15173

709218

A computer system selectively loads graphics for a web page. The user selects graphics on, graphics off or necessary graphics. In response to the user selection of graphics on, the system automically selects to display a web page with regular text and graphics associated with the web page. In response to the user selection of graphics off, the system selects to display a web page with regular text, without graphics and with alternate text, if any, for the graphics. In response to user selection of necessary graphics, the system selects to display a web page with regular text, without nonclickable graphics, without clickable graphics that have alternate text, with the alternate text, and with clickable graphics that do not have alternate text. Thus, all graphics necessary to know the consequence of selecting a hot link are displayed. Also, the system displays background images, if any, which are necessary for text readibility.

6807570, Oct 19, 2004

Jan 21, 1997

08/785912

Michael John Allen - Endicott NY
Michael Sloan Bomar - Endicott NY
William Francis Phillips - Owego NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1300

709219, 707500

A web browser loads and displays a web page and reads the html of the web page to identify an entry for a link which is marked for pre-loading. Then, the web browser automatically pre-loads into memory another html and associated graphics files corresponding to this link. This automatic pre-loading occurs without the link being selected by a user of the web browser. If the user subsequently selects the link, then the corresponding html and associated graphics files will be available from local memory so there is little delay in fetching the html and associated graphics files.

5918239, Jun 29, 1999

Jan 21, 1997

8/785913

Michael John Allen - Endicott NY
William Francis Phillips - Owego NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707526

A a client web browser receives a first user selection of a link displayed on a web page. The first user selection indicates a preference by the user for deferred display of another web page corresponding to the link. In response to the first user selection, the web browser loads the other web page from a server or other remote repository into a memory device local to the client web browser. Next, the user makes a second selection of the link (after the first user selection). The second user selection indicates a preference by the user for immediate display of this other web page. In response, the web browser fetches and displays this other web page from the local memory. However, if the user selected another link in the originally displayed web page, after the first user selection but before the second user selection and while the other web page is being loaded into the memory device, the web browser would have halted loading of this other web page and instead load and display a third web page corresponding to the other link.

5642430, Jun 24, 1997

May 1, 1996

8/640648

Timothy Dan Greer - Endicott NY
William Francis Phillips - Owego NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 900

382100

A system determines display durations of each of a plurality of images in a presentation based on a respective amount of the information content in the image, the greater the information content the longer the display time. There are various techniques for determining the information content of each of the images. For example, the system determines for each image the number of pixels at each of a multiplicity of respective pixel levels and the total number of pixels at one or more pixel levels for which the respective number(s) of pixels are significantly larger than the numbers of pixels at the other pixel levels. The pixels represented by these one or more pixel levels likely represent background or other mundane information. Consequently, only the pixels at the other values are considered as containing important information and their total number represents the total information content of the image. Another technique is to count the number of alphanumeric characters in an alphanumeric image as a measure of the information content in the image.

5574798, Nov 12, 1996

Aug 3, 1994

8/285390

Timothy D. Greer - Endicott NY
William F. Phillips - Owego NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 900

382100

A system determines display durations of each of a plurality of images in a presentation based on a respective amount of the information content in the image, the greater the information content the longer the display time. There are various techniques for determining the information content of each of the images. For example, the system determines for each image the number of pixels at each of a multiplicity of respective pixel levels and the total number of pixels at one or more pixel levels for which the respective number(s) of pixels are significantly larger than the numbers of pixels at the other pixel levels. The pixels represented by these one or more pixel levels likely represent background or other mundane information. Consequently, only the pixels at the other values are considered as containing important information and their total number represents the total information content of the image. Another technique is to count the number of alphanumeric characters in an alphanumeric image as a measure of the information content in the image.

6009429, Dec 28, 1999

Nov 13, 1997

8/969623

Timothy Dan Greer - Endicott NY
William Francis Phillips - Owego NY
Will Joseph Roden - Apalachin NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707 10

A guided tour of some portion of the World Wide Web (WWW) works as part of an ordinary web page, can be served by any web server, and can be used by web browsers without additional software. The system guides a user through a tour by displaying in sequence actual web pages in the tour along with a corresponding teaching web page. The teaching web page includes educational information about the current web page. The tour includes commentary, allowance for side trips, true visiting of the tour pages, not mere copies, maps, and "static" (user clicks for next page) and "dynamic" (a timer controls how long a tour page is on-screen) tours.

5987466, Nov 16, 1999

Nov 25, 1997

8/978305

Timothy Dan Greer - Endicott NY
William Francis Phillips - Owego NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707 10

A method of browsing the Worldwide Web of the Internet and presenting elements of a web page to a user. The web browser requests a desired HTML and then requests other elements of the page based upon user defined priority levels. Elements are presented to the user in priority sequence as soon as received eliminating unnecessary waiting for lower priority or unrequested elements, as well as partial display of desired elements.