Patents by Inventor Frank Z. Chang

Frank Z. Chang 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: 7831605
    Abstract: Integrated management of local and remote media files. A playlist of media files adapted for rendering by a media player application are located in either a local media library stored at the computer or a remote media library accessible by the computer via a data communication network or both. Media player operations may be performed on the playlist. A first identifier identifies each of the media files in the playlist and a second identifier represents a source of each of the media files in the playlist. A streaming locator defined by the first and second identifiers locates each of the media files in the playlist in the local media library and then in the remote library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Plastina, Michael J. Novak, Jonathan Marshall Cain, Keith W. Ballinger, Frank Z. Chang, Judson Craig Hally
  • Patent number: 7216292
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for learning data values over time as they are entered by a user on a form such as a web page form. An Internet web browser can be modified to suggest previously used data values for any form field that is the same as or similar to a previously used form field. Application programs that use the web browser can gain access to previously used form field values even if they have no knowledge of the field names. Software in a web browser associates field names across different Universal Resource Locators (URLs), so that when a user enters a value into a field (e.g., username) at a first web site, that same value can be automatically suggested when the user displays a different form on a different web site that uses the same field name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Erik J. Snapper, Julian P. Jiggins, Bharat Shyam, Hadi Partovi, Eric R. Berman, Steven J. Freedman, James E. Allard, Frank Z. Chang, Stephen P. Proteau, Clint C. Jorgenson