Patents by Inventor Justin Maguire

Justin Maguire 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).

  • Method for indicating a selected region on a computer display while allowing the user to see the formatting of the background and content items within the selected region
    Patent number: 6579324
    Abstract: A method for using an indicator, known as “See Through View,” that allows a user to select a region on the display device and still see the visual attributes of the contents as they will appear when the region is deselected. When the user selects a region on the display device, the invention “shades” the background of the selected region. The contents within the selected region are left unchanged. Shading is accomplished by combining each original background base color with a selection shading color to produce a corresponding blended color, or colors. If the corresponding blended color is similar to the background base color, the blended color is either lightened or darkened, as needed to produce an adjusted blended color. Each blended color, or the adjusted blended color (as required) replaces the corresponding base background color within the selected region. The effect is that the selected region and background items appear “shaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kent R. Lowry, Howard Wesley Cherry, Willard Bruce Jones, Tjeerd Hoek, Justin Maguire, III, John A. Tholen, Richard M. Banks, Terrence T. Huang