Larry Tesler, who came to Apple from Xerox PARC as a researcher working on GUIs and object oriented programming has passed away at 74. Tesler spent 17 years at Apple Computer managing product development and research in user experience, applications, languages, tools and systems for Lisa, Macintosh, Newton, multimedia  and Internet products. At one point Tesler was Vice President and Chief Scientist of the company. He was famous for creating what we know as "cut, copy and paste," or simply "cut and paste." Tesler also filed 16 patents that were assigned by Apple which are presented in title below:

Patents

• Method and system for inventory verification
• Displaying links at varying levels of prominence to reveal emergent paths based on user interaction
• Authentication seal for online applications
• Progressive capture of prospect information for user profiles
• Method and system for displaying a hyperlink at multiple levels of prominence based on user interaction
• Method and system for automated comparison of items
• Method and system for displaying a hyperlink at multiple levels of prominence based on user interaction
• System for tracking and providing access to information about server components invoked during the dynamic generation of web pages
• Error processing methods for providing responsive content to a user when a page load error occurs
• Method and apparatus for controlling a scheduler
• Method and apparatus for providing implicit computer-implemented assistance
• Method and apparatus for deducing user intent and providing computer implemented services
• Method and apparatus for providing computer-implemented assistance
• Method and apparatus for deducing user intent and providing computer implemented services
• System and Method for Conducting a Profile Based Search
• System and Method for Improving the Performance of Digital Advertisements