PATENTS & INVENTION DISCLOSURES

(Last updated March 6, 2024)

Bill Buxton



Issued Patents

  1. Agarwal, A., Criminisi, A., Buxton, B.,Blake, A., Fitzgibbon, A., Remote Workspace Sharing, US Patent 8,125,510, February 28, 2012 / US Patent <8,514,264 B2, August 20, 2013.
  2. Balakrishnan, R., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G. & Kurtenbach, G., Digital tape drawing system  US Patent 7,102,642, Sept. 5, 2006.
  3. Balakrishnan, R., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G. & Kurtenbach, G., Digital tape drawing system  US Patent 6,642,927, November 4, 2003.
  4. Baudel, T., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G., Harrison, B., Kurtenbach, G. & Owen, R., Clickaround tool-based graphical interface with two cursors. US Patent 5,666,499, Sept. 9, 1997.
  5. Baudel, Thomas, Fitzmaurice, George, Buxton; William, Kurtenbach, Gordon, Tappen, Charles, Liepe, Peter, Drawing system using design guidesUS Patent 6,377,240, April 23, 2002.
  6. class="auto-style3">Bier; Eric A., Buxton; William A. S., User interface having movable sheet with click-through tools, US Patent 5,581,670, Dec. 3, 1996.
  7. Bier, Eric A., Buxton; William A. S. & Stone; Maureen C., User interface having click-through tools that can be composed with other tools. US Patent 5,617,114, April 1, 1997.
  8. Buxton, William A.S.Employing Artifacts for Video Indexing. US Patent 8,879,887, Nov. 4, 2014.
  9. Buxton; William Arthur Stewart & Bell; Jeffrey Allen. System for maintaining orientation of a user interface as a display changes orientation, US Patent 6,115,025, Sept. 5, 2000.
  10. Buxton, W. & Bier, Eric A. User interface having simultaneously movable tools and cursor, US Patent 5,798,752, Aug. 25, 1998.
  11. Buxton, W. & Fitzmaurice, G.W., System for editing time-based temporal digital media including a pointing device toggling between temporal and translation-rotation modes, US Patent 5,790,769, Aug. 4, 1998.
  12. Buxton, W. & Fitzmaurice, G.W., User interface system and method for controlling playback time-based temporal digital mediaUS Patent 6,191,784, Feb. 20, 2001.
  13. Buxton, W. & Goldthwaite, Flora P., Map Annotation MessagingUS Patent 2011/0320114A1, Dec. 29, 2011.
  14. Buxton, William A.S, Hughes, Richard L., Hinckley, Kenneth P., Pahud, Michel, Spiridonova, Irina, Disambiguation of Keyboard Input. US Patent 9,940,016 B2, April 10, 2018.
  15. Buxton, W. & Kurtenbach, G. (2000). Graphical keyboard.  US Patent 6,094,197, July 25, 2000.
  16. Buxton, William A.S.; Harrison, Beverly L.; Vicente, Kim J.; Graphical user interface with optimal transparency thresholds for maximizing user performance and system efficiency, US Patent 6,118,427, Sept. 12, 2000.
  17. Buxton, William, Pahud, Michel & Hinckley, Ken. Touch Screen Control. US Patent 9,223,471, Dec. 29, 2015
  18. Fitzmaurice, G. & Buxton, W., Temporal data control systemUS Patent 5,973,669, Oct. 26, 1999.
  19. Fitzmaurice, G., Kurtenbach, G., Buxton, W. & Pieke, R.,  Pen Mouse System, US Patent 7,242,387, July 10, 2007 / US Patent 8,904,310, Dec. 2, 2014.
  20. Florencio; Dinei A., Acero; Alejandro, Buxton; William, Chou; Phillip A., Cutler; Ross G., Garms; Jason, Huitema; Christian, Quinn; Kori M., Rosenfeld; Daniel Allen, Zhang; Zhengyou,Audio transforms in connection with multiparty communication, US Patent 210/0195812 A1 August 5, 2010.
  21. Freed, Robert M., Buxton, William A.S., Johnson, Margaret.  Electronic PenUS Patent D565,653, April 1, 2008.
  22. Freed, Robert M., Buxton, William A. S., Johnson, Margaret & Winsor, Margaret.  Electronic TabletUS Patent D578,117, Oct. 7, 2008.
  23. Grossman, T., Baudisch, P., Hinckley, K.P., Buxton, W.A.S., & Sarin, R., Handle Flags. US Patent 8,171,431,B2, May 1, 2012.
  24. Harrison, B., Buxton, W., &  Zhai, S., Graphical user interface with anti-interference outlines for enhanced variably-transparent applications, US Patent 6,317,128, November 13, 2001.
  25. Hinckley; Kenneth P., Pahud; Michel, Buxton; William A. S., Computing Device Having Plural Display Parts for Presenting Plural Spaces, US Patent 2012/0154255 A1, Jun. 21, 2012.
  26. Hinckley; Kenneth P., Pahud; Michel, Buxton; William A. S., Multi-Touch-Movement Gestures for Tablet Computing Devices, US Patent 8,902,181, Dec. 2014.
  27. Hinckley; Kenneth P., Pahud; Michel, Buxton; William Arthur Stewart, Pfeuffer, Ken. Thumb and pen interaction on a mobile device, US Patent 10,635,291, April 28, 2020.
  28. Hinckley, Kenneth P., Pahud, Michel, Buxton, William Arthur Stewart, Xia, Haijun. Unified system for bimanual interactions, US Patent 10,684,758, June 16, 2020.
  29. Huitema; Christian, Buxton; William A. S., Paff; John E., Liu; Zicheng, Hegde; Rajesh Kutpadi, Zhang; Zhengyou, Quinn; Kori Marie, Li; Jin, Pahud; Michel. Ambulatory Presence Features, US Patent 8,253,774, August 28, 2012.
  30. Izadi, Shahram, Hall, Malcolm , Hodges, Stephen E., Buxton, William, & Butler, David Alexander. Unique identification of devices using color detection, US Patent 7,884,734, Feb. 8, 2011.
  31. Izadi, Shahram, Rosenfeld, Daniel A., Hodges, Stephen E., Taylor, Stewart, Butler, David Alexander & Buxton, William. Unique identification of devices using color detection, CA Patent 2716403 A1Sept. 11, 2009.
  32. Mori; Yasuhiko, Morimitsu; Shinji, Oigo; Kazuhide, Tanaka; Takeshi, Bell; Eric Matthew, Chen; Liang, Dai; Juan, Buxton; William Arthur Stewart. User Character Input Interface with Modifier SupportUS Patent 9,189.077, Nov. 17, 2015.
  33. Pahud, Michel, Buxton, William & Cunnington, Sharon,Parametric Font AnimationUS Patent 8,542,237, Sept. 24, 2013.
  34. Pahud, Michel, Hinckley, Ken & Buxton, William, Optimized telepresence using mobile device gestures, US Patent 9,294,722, March 22, 2015.
  35. Pahud, Michel, Hinckley, Ken & Buxton, William, Application for Multi-Touch Input Detection, US Patent 10,579,216 B2, March 3, 2020.
  36. Tang, John C., Buxton, William Arthur Stewarrt, Wilson, Andrew D., Inkpen, Kori M., Junuzovic, Sasa, Sellen, Abigail J., Rintel, Edward Sean. Established Perspective User Interface and User Experience for Video Meetings.US Patent 2023/0236713 A1,July 7, 2023.

Invention Disclosures

  1. Buxton W. (1994). Combined keyboard / touch tablet input device, Xerox Disclosure Journal, 19(2), 109-111.
  2. Buxton W. (1994). Two-handed Document Navigation, Xerox Disclosure Journal, 19(2), 103-108.