Patents by Inventor Benjamen Ross

Benjamen Ross 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: 20070204217
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for exporting a document in multiple formats. The disclosed systems and methods may include creating a metafile including content associated with the document and injecting comments into the metafile. The comments may comprise semantic information corresponding to the document. Also, the metafile may be parsed to create at least one call. The at least one call may be configured to enable an export engine to render the document. Furthermore, the at least one call may be sent to the export engine configured to render the document in an output format associated with the export engine. In addition, the export engine maybe selected from a plurality of export engines based upon user input indicating the output format associated with the selected export engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamen Ross, Stephen Blanding, Zhenjun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20070103488
    Abstract: Lower resolution bitmaps are substituted with higher resolution bitmaps before output. The higher resolution bitmaps are substituted for the lower resolution bitmaps such that the bitmaps are of sufficient resolution and may be anti-aliased to produce a shape that has high resolution for printing and display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamen Ross, Cynthia Wessling, Cherie Ekholm
  • Publication number: 20050278625
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically generating and displaying previews of documents or templates of interest to a user. As a user provides or selects customized designs or themes, including color themes, font types, images, and the like, previews of one or more documents or templates to which the user selected designs or themes are applied are dynamically generated and are displayed to allow the user to select an actual document or template for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cynthia Wessling, Benjamen Ross