Patents by Inventor Karl E. Tolgu

Karl E. Tolgu 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: 20120303401
    Abstract: Enterprise systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating a flexible assignment of tasks to work item queues according to assignment rules and conditions for a business document. The system comprises associating an application object server response to a client workflow form or control, associating an expression to an assignment rule or condition with the work item queue and creating a default work item queue for an expression or series of ordered expressions that do not evaluate true. During runtime, the flexible workflow task assignment process evaluates the sequence of ordered expressions for a given work item queue until no next expression is to be evaluated and assigning the task to the default work item queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karl E. Tolgu, Babak Nakhayi Ashtiani, Ramesh Gururaja, Anthony F. Bernard, Josh Honeyman, Sukumar Rathnam
  • Patent number: 7681117
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions for generating a user interface on a display device, the user interface includes a grid having a plurality of cells. The user interface also includes a visual affordance presented on the grid and visually connected to one of the plurality of cells, the visual affordance exposing properties of the one of the plurality of cells to which it is visually connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karl E. Tolgu, Michael K. Forney