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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Cloney, San Jose, CA (US);
Wolfgang Dunsdon, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Glenn E. Jystad, Dove Canyon, CA (US);
Myungseok Kim, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ; G06F 9/445 ; G06T 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ; G06F 9/445 ; G06T 1/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus to display information. The method comprises retrieving a first value representative of a first device parameter, and detecting a second value representative of a second device parameter. A template corresponding to a graphic object is retrieved from a storage. A graphic attribute that characterizes the graphic object is generated from the template. The first and second values displayed and an image is generated from the graphic object according to the graphic attribute.