Patents by Inventor Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor 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).

  • Patent number: 7559164
    Abstract: A down marker for use in a football game includes a vertical support and a display panel that extends from the vertical support. This display panel carries an array of solid state lighting devices configured to optically display a down number. The array of solid state lighting devices is selectively controlled by a controller that is carried by the down marker, in response to an external input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Inventors: Royce Riehlman, Larry Downes, Brandon Taylor, Mike Bazzano
  • Publication number: 20070198657
    Abstract: Mapping a server file to a corresponding locally stored copy of a server file and redirecting an application to a server file or to a corresponding local copy of the server file are provided for opening a most up-to-date and/or most reliable version of the desired file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hani Saliba, Mingquan Xue, Dustin Friesenhahn, Brandon Taylor, Mitika Gupta, Raj Merchant, Hai Liu
  • Publication number: 20060294139
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for incorporating meta-data in document content. The disclosed systems and methods may include initiating an application program configured to generate a document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the document generated by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel and copying the meta-data from the property panel to the document content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Taylor, Hani Saliba, Raj Merchant, Brian Jones
  • Publication number: 20060294474
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user interface. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request to initiate an application program configured to generate a data file. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel in response to the request. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the data file generated by the application program. Also, the property panel may be configured to provide the only place to receive the meta-data by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Taylor, Brian Jones, Hani Saliba, Jeffrey Johnson, Lauren Antonoff, Michael Christiansen, Raj Merchant, Steven Sinofsky
  • Publication number: 20060294117
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating document schema. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving schema corresponding to meta-data associated with a document, storing the schema in the document, and storing the meta-data in the document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include storing the schema at a first location. The schema stored at the first location may be changeable independent of the schema stored in the document. In addition, the disclosed systems and methods may include creating a first hash of the schema stored in the document and storing the first hash in the document. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that the schema stored at the first location has changed if a second hash of the schema stored at the first location is different from the first hash of the schema stored in the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raj Merchant, Brandon Taylor, Shiraz Cupala, Dragos Barac
  • Publication number: 20060282784
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products provide intelligent user interfaces based on a context or mode of a document. A method involves opening the document in a context that only facilitates reading, disabling editing commands associated with the document and/or disabling typing functionality for editing the document, and displaying a transition button via the intelligent user interface. The transition button is operative, when selected, to initiate transition of the document between the context that only facilitates reading and a context that facilitates editing. The method also involves receiving a selection of the transition button, in response to receiving the selection and transitioning from the context that only facilitates reading to the context that facilitates editing. Transitioning to the editing context includes enabling the editing commands and typing functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Taylor, Hani Saliba, Rhae-Christie Shaw
  • Publication number: 20050108323
    Abstract: Content that is stored on a remote server is distributed via a communications network. The distribution of the content, such as a document or pictures, is initiated via a properly enabled device, such as a web-enabled phone, handheld computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), or personal computer. In this manner, a website can be used as a repository for documents, and the sender is not required to have physical possession of the document to be sent or have a locally stored electronic copy of the document to be sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Brandon Taylor, Malcolm Haar, Tia Gao
  • Publication number: 20050081216
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for calling a target object from a caller object in a first call mode. A program component is invoked in response to the caller object initiating the call to the target object and the program component invokes execution of the call on the target object. The program component monitors the execution of the call on the target object and determines whether the execution of the call on the target object exceeds a threshold. The caller object is notified to cause the caller object to change from the first call mode to a second call mode in handling the call if the execution of the call is determined to exceed the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventor: Brandon Taylor
  • Publication number: 20020169660
    Abstract: An online, fully integrated promotion program is disclosed having a promotion program tool in which a program participant acquires a quantity of promotion program points, reviews an upcoming real world event, reviews a select set of possible outcomes for the event, and selects one of the possible outcomes as a prediction entry. The participant also associates the quantity of points with the selected prediction entry. The selected prediction entry can be classified as a winning prediction entry if the outcome of the real world event corresponds thereto. If the prediction entry is a winning prediction entry, the promotion program administrator distributes a reward to the program participant for making a winning prediction entry during participation in said promotion program. Additional promotion program tools can be included within the promotion program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Jason Brandon Taylor, Christopher M. Jackson