Donald F Melton

US Patent:

7428709, Sep 23, 2008

Filed:

Apr 13, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/105771

Inventors:

Scott James Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Gregory N. Christie - San Jose CA, US
Kevin John Tiene - Cupertino CA, US
Donald Dale Melton - San Carlos CA, US
Stephen Lemay - San Francisco CA, US
Wayne Russell Loofbourrow - San Jose CA, US
Jessica Kahn - San Francisco CA, US
David Hyatt - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715784, 715785, 715786, 715792

Abstract:

In a scrollable user interface window including two or more panels, a single scroll bar scrolls all of the panels. Panels move in lock-step with one another at certain times, but not at other times, depending on whether the lock-step scrolling would cause blank areas to be displayed. If the user's scroll commands would result in a blank area of a panel being displayed, the scroll command is not performed; rather, the panel remains frozen in its current position, even while other panel(s) do scroll. Thus, the present invention ensures that useful content is displayed at all times in all panels, and no screen real estate is wasted due to scrolling operations.

US Patent:

7581164, Aug 25, 2009

Filed:

Jan 6, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/337768

Inventors:

Scott Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Donald Dale Melton - San Carlos CA, US
John William Sullivan - Pacific Grove CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/00

US Classification:

715200, 715273

Abstract:

A user interface and methods for accessing document presentations are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the invention allows a user to directly snapback to a previous accessed document presentation without having to select from a menu of items or go through the intermediate pages. In this method, when a first document presentation is accessed, a first location of the first document presentation is recorded, automatically or manually. Subsequently, when a sequence of additional document presentations originated from the first document presentation is accessed, in response to a first input, without having to select from a menu of items, the first document presentation is directly retrieved from a recorded first location and displayed in a window. In one particular embodiment, a second document presentation is accessed and a second location of the second document presentation is recorded, where the recordation of the second location resets or supercedes the recordation of the first location. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

US Patent:

7788248, Aug 31, 2010

Filed:

Mar 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/076473

Inventors:

Scott James Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Donald D. Melton - San Carlos CA, US
John William Sullivan - Pacific Grove CA, US
Darin Benjamin Adler - Los Gatos CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707706, 707736

Abstract:

Providing immediate search feedback is disclosed. Search input is received within a search field of a web browser application. Based on characteristics of the search input, a determination is made whether to automatically submit a query to a search engine. In one aspect, the query is automatically submitted to the search engine. The query is based on the received first search input. Results are displayed within the web browser application, the results web page returned from the query submitted to the search engine.

US Patent:

7823054, Oct 26, 2010

Filed:

Dec 21, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/644162

Inventors:

Scott Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Donald Dale Melton - San Carlos CA, US
John William Sullivan - Pacific Grove CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715200, 707706, 715840

Abstract:

A user interface and methods for accessing document presentations are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the invention allows a user to directly snapback to a previous accessed document presentation without having to select from a menu of items or go through the intermediate pages. In this method, when a first document presentation is accessed, a first location of the first document presentation is recorded, automatically or manually. Subsequently, when a sequence of additional document presentations originated from the first document presentation is accessed, in response to a first input, without having to select from a menu of items, the first document presentation is directly retrieved from a recorded first location and displayed in a window. In one particular embodiment, a second document presentation is accessed and a second location of the second document presentation is recorded, where the recordation of the second location resets or supercedes the recordation of the first location. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

US Patent:

8185529, May 22, 2012

Filed:

Aug 27, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/870725

Inventors:

Scott James Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Donald D. Melton - San Carlos CA, US
John William Sullivan - Pacific Grove CA, US
Darin Benjamin Adler - Los Gatos CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707736

Abstract:

Providing immediate search feedback is disclosed. Search input is received within a search field of a web browser application. Based on characteristics of the search input, a determination is made whether to automatically submit a query to a search engine. In one aspect, the query is automatically submitted to the search engine. The query is based on the received first search input. Results are displayed within the web browser application, the results web page returned from the query submitted to the search engine.

US Patent:

8407574, Mar 26, 2013

Filed:

Jul 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/496834

Inventors:

Scott Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Donald Dale Melton - San Carlos CA, US
John William Sullivan - Pacific Grove CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715200

Abstract:

A user interface and methods for accessing document presentations are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the invention allows a user to directly snapback to a previous accessed document presentation without having to select from a menu of items or go through the intermediate pages. In this method, when a first document presentation is accessed, a first location of the first document presentation is recorded, automatically or manually. Subsequently, when a sequence of additional document presentations originated from the first document presentation is accessed, in response to a first input, without having to select from a menu of items, the first document presentation is directly retrieved from a recorded first location and displayed in a window. In one particular embodiment, a second document presentation is accessed and a second location of the second document presentation is recorded, where the recordation of the second location resets or supercedes the recordation of the first location. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

US Patent:

20120304286, Nov 29, 2012

Filed:

May 25, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/115880

Inventors:

Brian Croll - Los Altos CA, US
Darin B. Adler - Los Gatos CA, US
Kevin W. Decker - San Jose CA, US
Steven J. Falkenburg - Los Altos CA, US
Timothy G. Hatcher - Tracy CA, US
Jing Jin - Sunnyvale CA, US
Donald D. Melton - San Carlos CA, US
Maciej Stachowiak - San Francisco CA, US
Samuel M. Weinig - Sunnyvale CA, US
Brian A. Weinstein - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

APPLE INC. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 21/00
G06F 15/173

US Classification:

726 22

Abstract:

Methods and apparatuses that maintain one or more data stores capable of storing local data in a device for loading a resource of a domain are described. The resource may be loaded to cause one or more data access operations on the data stores. Access to usage tracking data of the device from the domain may depend on at least one of the data access operations. The data access operations may be configured to block the usage tracking data of the device from the domain. The data access operations may be performed on the data stores for the loading of the resource. A web page may be presented to a user when the resource is successfully loaded.

US Patent:

20130205194, Aug 8, 2013

Filed:

Jan 25, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/750586

Inventors:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA, US
Nicholas Zambetti - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffrey Traer Bernstein - San Francisco CA, US
Raymond Sepulveda - San Jose CA, US
Duncan R. Kerr - San Francisco CA, US
Julian Missig - Redwood City CA, US
Matthew Irvine Brown - San Francisco CA, US
Donald Melton - San Carlos CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/21

US Classification:

715234

Abstract:

In any context where a user can view multiple different content items, switching among content items is provided using an array mode. In a full-frame mode, one content item is visible and active, but other content items may also be open. In response to user input the display can be switched to an array mode, in which all of the content items are visible in a scrollable array. Selecting a content item in array mode can result in the display returning to the full-frame mode, with the selected content item becoming visible and active. Smoothly animated transitions between the full-frame and array modes and a gesture-based interface for controlling the transitions can also be provided.