Patents by Inventor Anthony Kitowicz

Anthony Kitowicz 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).

  • Publication number: 20130229440
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for selecting images to represent tiles within a visualization and/or for creating a visually diverse visualization. That is, images for tiles within a visualization may be selected and/or modified based upon state information associate with such tiles (e.g., current time, current location, device resolution, current weather conditions, current image comprised within a tile, etc.). In this way, a set of visually diverse tiles may be created, such that adjacent tiles may be represented by visually diverse images. For example, tiles within a weather application may represent weather conditions for days of a week. If two adjacent tiles comprise visually similar images (e.g., images depicting a single cloud), then at least one of the images may be modified (e.g., to an image of four clouds) so that the two adjacent tiles may appear visually dissimilar within the weather application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Whalen MacDonald, Mira Lane, Phoi Heng Lew, Anthony Kitowicz, Sudin Bhat
  • Patent number: 8056081
    Abstract: Described herein is a method of controlling memory usage in a computer system having limited physical memory, wherein one or more application programs execute in conjunction with an operating system. At a first memory usage threshold, the operating system requests at least one of the application programs to limit its use of memory. At a second memory usage threshold that is more critical than the first memory usage threshold, the operating system requests at least one of the application programs to close itself. At a third memory usage threshold that is more critical than the first and second memory usage thresholds, the operating system terminates at least one of the application programs without allowing its further execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sharad Mathur, Michael Ginsberg, Thomas Fenwick, Anthony Kitowicz, William H. Mitchell, Jason W. Fuller
  • Patent number: 6938254
    Abstract: Described herein is a method of controlling memory usage in a computer system having limited physical memory, wherein one or more application programs execute in conjunction with an operating system. At a first memory usage threshold, the operating system requests at least one of the application programs to limit its use of memory. At a second memory usage threshold that is more critical than the first memory usage threshold, the operating system requests at least one of the application programs to close itself. At a third memory usage threshold that is more critical than the first and second memory usage thresholds, the operating system terminates at least one of the application programs without allowing its further execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sharad Mathur, Michael Ginsberg, Thomas Fenwick, Anthony Kitowicz, William H. Mitchell, Jason Fuller
  • Publication number: 20050021917
    Abstract: Described herein is a method of controlling memory usage in a computer system having limited physical memory, wherein one or more application programs execute in conjunction with an operating system. At a first memory usage threshold, the operating system requests at least one of the application programs to limit its use of memory. At a second memory usage threshold that is more critical than the first memory usage threshold, the operating system requests at least one of the application programs to close itself. At a third memory usage threshold that is more critical than the first and second memory usage thresholds, the operating system terminates at least one of the application programs without allowing its further execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sharad Mathur, Michael Ginsberg, Thomas Fenwick, Anthony Kitowicz, William Mitchell, Jason Fuller
  • Patent number: 5949418
    Abstract: A portable computing device has a processor and a touch-sensitive display. The display includes a touch-sensitive area superimposed on a viewing area, whereby the touch-sensitive area extends beyond the viewing area to form a border outside of the viewing area but within the touch-sensitive area. The handheld computing device has an operating system which executes on the processor to provide a graphical user interface environment capable of presenting a graphical window and a program taskbar within the viewing area. The program taskbar presents a program icon representing a program that is active within the graphical window. The operating system is configured to minimize the graphical window to remove the graphical window from the viewing area or to enlarge the graphical window to restore the graphical window in the viewing area in response to contacting the program icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Timothy Shields, Anthony Kitowicz, Daniel Boone, Scott R. Shell