Patents by Inventor Margaret K. Johnson
Margaret K. Johnson 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).
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Publication number: 20240125385Abstract: A zero turning radius mower park brake system includes a park brake pawl on a transmission which engages a park brake to a pair of independently driven traction wheels. A park brake link may be pivotably mounted to the park brake pawl and connected to a left steering lever and a right steering lever. The park brake link may pivot while moving the park brake pawl forward to a park brake engaged position if only one of the steering levers is moved outward from a neutral traction drive position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: JOSEAN J. MARTINEZ ACOSTA, THOMAS M. MESSINA, KENNETH M. REEP, WILLIAM P. JOHNSON, DAVID W. GEIGER, Margaret K. Martin
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Patent number: 8095366Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion, and altered appearance. When altering the appearance of the characters, the system operates on a set of control points associated with characters, changes the position of the characters, and changes the influence of the portion of characters on a set of respective spline curves. A designer or other user can customize the fonts and user experience by creating an episode package that specifies words to include in the user interface, and details about actions to take when certain events fire. The episode package can include media effects to play when a particular event associated with the media effect occurs.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Margaret K. Johnson, Heinz W. Schuller, Howard W. Phillips, Michel Pahud
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Patent number: 7730403Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion and altered appearance. When altering the appearance of the characters, the system operates on a set of control points associated with characters, changes the position of the characters, and changes the influence of the portion of characters on a set of respective spline curves. A designer or other user can customize the fonts and user experience by creating an episode package that specifies words to include in the user interface, and details about actions to take when certain events fire. The episode package can include media effects to play when a particular event associated with the media effect occurs.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Margaret K. Johnson, Heinz W. Schuller, Howard W. Phillips, Michel Pahud
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Publication number: 20070226615Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion and altered appearance. When altering the appearance of the characters, the system operates on a set of control points associated with characters, changes the position of the characters, and changes the influence of the portion of characters on a set of respective spline curves. A designer or other user can customize the fonts and user experience by creating an episode package that specifies words to include in the user interface, and details about actions to take when certain events fire. The episode package can include media effects to play when a particular event associated with the media effect occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicants: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Patent GroupInventors: Margaret K. Johnson, Heinz W. Schuller, Howard W. Phillips, Michel Pahud
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Publication number: 20070226641Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion, and altered appearance. When altering the appearance of the characters, the system operates on a set of control points associated with characters, changes the position of the characters, and changes the influence of the portion of characters on a set of respective spline curves. A designer or other user can customize the fonts and user experience by creating an episode package that specifies words to include in the user interface, and details about actions to take when certain events fire. The episode package can include media effects to play when a particular event associated with the media effect occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Margaret K. Johnson, Heinz W. Schuller, Howard W. Phillips, Michel Pahud
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Patent number: 6360230Abstract: The present invention provides a directory service system for accessing a plurality of directory services in a uniform manner. Each directory service manages information relating to objects of that directory service. The type of information that a directory service manages for an object is defined by the object class of the object. An object class defines the properties (i.e., information) that a directory service manages for objects of that object class. Each property has a property name and property type. A directory service has a property value for each property defined by the object class of each object. The directory service system comprises a schema browsing component, a name resolving component, a binding component, and an extending component. The schema browsing component controls the retrieving of the property name and property type of each property of each object class of each directory service.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1998Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chuck Y. Chan, Krishna Ganugapati, Margaret K. Johnson, Steven G. Judd, Stuart L. S. Kwan, Colin Watson
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Patent number: 5893107Abstract: The present invention provides a directory service system for accessing a plurality of directory services in a uniform manner. Each directory service manages information relating to objects or that directory service. The type of information that a directory service manages for an object is defined by the object class of the object. An object class defines the properties (i.e., information) that a directory service manages for objects of that object class. Each property has a properly name and property type. A directory service has a property value for each property defined by the object class of each object. The directory service system comprises a schema browsing component, a name resolving component, a binding component, and an extending component. The schema browsing component controls the retrieving of the property name and property type of each property of each object class of each directory service.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1996Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chuck Y. Chan, Krishna Ganugapati, Margaret K. Johnson, Steven G. Judd, Stuart L. S. Kwan, Colin Watson