Inventor

Shawn A. Gaither

Inventor
Raleigh, NC, US

Overview

24→
Patents
1992–2021
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 24 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary
G06FElectric digital data processing57%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding17%
G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes9%
G06KGraphical data reading6%
G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models6%
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general3%
G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis3%
PatentTitleYear
10,956,731Heading identification and classification for a digital document202110,713,519Automated workflows for identification of reading order from text segments using probabilistic language models202010,657,200Proactive form guidance for interacting with electronic forms202010,614,266Recognition and population of form fields in an electronic document202010,460,024Interactive electronic form workflow assistant that guides interactions with electronic forms in a conversational manner201910,445,419Form filling engine to populate fields of an electronic form201910,311,374Categorization of forms to aid in form search201910,223,344Recognition and population of form fields in an electronic document201910,133,813Form value prediction utilizing synonymous field recognition201810,095,802Methods and systems for using field characteristics to index, search for, and retrieve forms201810,089,292Categorization of forms to aid in form completion20189,384,175'Determination of differences between electronic documents'20169,003,395'Directing plug-in updates for a software application to a target audience using manifest parameters'20158,972,969'Out of band services updates'20158,893,117'Interactive product improvement through the use of variants and data gathering reports in a system that can be updated on the fly'20147,805,671'Style sheet generation'20107,602,972'Method and apparatus for identifying white space tables within a document'20097,505,626'Recognizing background in a multicolor image'20097,333,657'Recognizing text in a multicolor image'20087,249,318'Style sheet generation'20076,771,816'Generating a text mask for representing text pixels'20046,748,111'Recognizing text in a multicolor image'20046,701,023'Reducing appearance differences between coded and noncoded units of text'20045,133,045'Method for operating a real-time expert system in a graphical programming environment'1992

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1992Patents assigned to INTEGRATED SYSTEMS INC (1)· patent assignee history
1992Based in Saratoga, CA, US· patent location history
2004–2018Patents assigned to ADOBE SYSTEMS INC (15)· patent assignee history
2004–2010Based in Santa Cruz, CA, US· patent location history
2009–2021Based in Raleigh, NC, US· patent location history
2014–2016Patents assigned to GAITHER SHAWN A (4)· patent assignee history
2014–2015Patents assigned to SWINEFORD RANDY LEE (2)· patent assignee history
2019–2021Patents assigned to ADOBE INC (8)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
ADOBE SYSTEMS INC152004–2018
ADOBE INC82019–2021
GAITHER SHAWN Aself42014–2016
SWINEFORD RANDY LEE22014–2015
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS INC11992
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Raleigh, NC, US162009–2021
Santa Cruz, California, US72004–2010
Saratoga, California, US11992