Patents by Inventor Anson An-Chun Tsao

Anson An-Chun Tsao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Generating customized data bound visualizations
    Patent number: 9384181
    Abstract: Descried herein are various technologies to visualizing data in a spreadsheet application. Customized visualizations are generated by binding a user-defined equation with a parameter of a primitive visual shape that has been selected by the user to visualized a dataset. The user-defined equation takes as input a value of data in a cell of the spreadsheet application, and the primitive visual shape is displayed to the user as a function of the output of the user-defined equation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Danyel Fisher, Steven Mark Drucker, Roland Fernandez, Vikram Bapat, Robert Scott Silverstein, Xiaoji Chen, Anson An-Chun Tsao, Oscar Pawel Kozlowski
  • Transformational context-aware data source management
    Patent number: 8863082
    Abstract: Porting between local, cluster, and cloud execution is aided by using the same source code for multiple data sources. A data source identifier recited in source code maps to data sources at different execution targets. Executable codes tailored to successive targets are produced using a resolution API without changing the developer's source code. An editable data source mapping is per-project, maintained in a file or project property, and placed in a distributable software package with executable code. Burdens on developers to determine execution targets in their source code and explicitly handle different execution locations in the source code are reduced. Source code can be freed of absolute path data source identifiers or code for detecting execution location. Source-to-source translation injects calls to create a folder, file, or cloud container. Data source resolution can be based on a relative path rooted at the data source identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anson An-Chun Tsao, Yang Cao, Pusheng Zhang
  • TRANSFORMATIONAL CONTEXT-AWARE DATA SOURCE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20130061208
    Abstract: Porting between local, cluster, and cloud execution is aided by using the same source code for multiple data sources. A data source identifier recited in source code maps to data sources at different execution targets. Executable codes tailored to successive targets are produced using a resolution API without changing the developer's source code. An editable data source mapping is per-project, maintained in a file or project property, and placed in a distributable software package with executable code. Burdens on developers to determine execution targets in their source code and explicitly handle different execution locations in the source code are reduced. Source code can be freed of absolute path data source identifiers or code for detecting execution location. Source-to-source translation injects calls to create a folder, file, or cloud container. Data source resolution can be based on a relative path rooted at the data source identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anson An-Chun Tsao, Yang Cao, Pusheng Zhang
  • GENERATING CUSTOMIZED DATA BOUND VISUALIZATIONS
    Publication number: 20120159298
    Abstract: Descried herein are various technologies to visualizing data in a spreadsheet application. Customized visualizations are generated by binding a user-defined equation with a parameter of a primitive visual shape that has been selected by the user to visualized a dataset. The user-defined equation takes as input a value of data in a cell of the spreadsheet application, and the primitive visual shape is displayed to the user as a function of the output of the user-defined equation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Danyel Fisher, Steven Mark Drucker, Roland Fernandez, Vikram Bapat, Robert Scott Silverstein, Xiaoji Chen, Anson An-Chun Tsao, Oscar Pawel Kozlowski