Patents by Inventor Marieke Iwema
Marieke Iwema 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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Patent number: 7626580Abstract: The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for receiving and acting upon user input. In one embodiment, the user may only have access to a limited input device, like a stylus. Using the present invention, a user is provided with intuitive responses from the system based on inputs from the limited input device.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Leroy B. Keely, Charlton E. Lui, F. David Jones, Ryan Edward Cukierman, Susanne Alysia Clark Cazzanti, Marieke Iwema, Robert Jarrett
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Publication number: 20090259943Abstract: There is presented a system and method enabling sampling and preview of a digital multimedia presentation. The system comprises a presentation server and a presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital content including the digital multimedia presentation, accessible through the presentation server. The system also comprises a presentation sampling and preview application configured to determine a time duration of the digital multimedia presentation, designate sampling intervals of the digital multimedia presentation according to the time duration, associate a digital content sample with each designated sampling interval, and assign the digital content samples to respective locations on a presentation timeline. The system is configured to provide the digital content sample assigned to a selected location on the presentation timeline, thereby enabling sampling and preview of the digital multimedia presentation. In one embodiment, the system further comprises a client computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2008Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Jonathan David Barsook, Ariff Sidi, Matthew Paul Bice, Marieke Iwema Watson
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Publication number: 20090259955Abstract: There is presented a system and method for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system comprises a presentation server and a presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital multimedia content items, accessible through the presentation server. The system also comprises a presentation control application configured to enable identification of a digital multimedia content item for presentation from among the plurality of digital multimedia content items.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2008Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Jonathan David Barsook, Matthew Paul Bice, Marieke Iwema Watson
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Patent number: 7581194Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide context menus useful in, e.g., a computing device receiving user input via a stylus. Icons representing actions performable on an object are displayed in a context menu for the object. Additional aspects of the invention include cascading menus that also minimize hand and/or wrist motion, as well as placement of menus based on user handedness and/or stylus orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marieke Iwema, Leroy B. Keely, David Switzer
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Patent number: 7562296Abstract: A correction tool that displays a correction widget when a user acts to correct text is provided. More particularly, if the user places an insertion point in or to the immediate left of the text, or selects the text, the tool displays the correction widget immediately to the left of the selected text. The user can then quickly access a correction interface for correcting the text simply by moving the pointer the short distance from the insertion point to the correction widget. When the user activates the correction widget, the tool displays the correction interface immediately proximal to the correction widget. Thus, the user need only move the pointer a small distance further to then correct the text using the correction interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ravipal Soin, Adrian J. Garside, David V. Winkler, Luis M. Huapaya, Marieke Iwema
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Patent number: 7389475Abstract: An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system permits an application having an input focus to retain the input focus while inputs are received in the GUI element, and even transient user interface elements (e.g., menus) will remain displayed in those applications after the user inputs are entered. Input pen and mouse events may first be forwarded to the input area application, which may remove the events from the normal circulation, preventing other applications from learning of the events, and then post those events to the input panel application separately.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joshua Clow, Adrian Garside, Shiraz Somji, Donald D. Karlov, Bob Dain, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Tobiasz A. Zielinski, Alexander Gounares, Leroy B. Keely, Ravi Soin, Erik Geidl, Marieke Iwema, Grady Leno
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Patent number: 7386803Abstract: An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system permits an application having an input focus to retain the input focus while inputs are received in the GUI element, and even transient user interface elements (e.g., menus) will remain displayed in those applications after the user inputs are entered. Input pen and mouse events may first be forwarded to the input area application, which may remove the events from the normal circulation, preventing other applications from learning of the events, and then post those events to the input panel application separately.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joshua Clow, Adrian Garside, Shiraz Somji, Donald D. Karlov, Bob Dain, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Tobiasz A. Zielinski, Alexander Gournares, Leroy B. Keely, Ravi Soin, Erik Geidl, Marieke Iwema, Grady Leno
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Patent number: 7299424Abstract: A lasso select tool that allows a user to draw a flexible line of selection ink in order to select one or more graphical objects for manipulation. As the user draws this selection line, the lasso select tool continuously redraws and displays a connection line connecting one end of the selection line with the opposite end of the selection line. This connection line thus graphically demonstrates to the user the area that is presently encompassed by the resulting lasso enclosure. Further, the lasso select tool will change the appearance of any object selected with the lasso enclosure. The lasso select tool also selects objects that are only substantially encompassed by the lasso enclosure. For example, the lasso select tool may select ink objects that are only 60% or more encompassed by the lasso enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert J. Jarrett, Gerhard A. Schobbe, Marieke Iwema, Charlton E. Lui, F. David Jones, Emily K. Rimas, Bodin Dresevic, Subha Bhattacharyay
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Patent number: 7277089Abstract: The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for receiving and acting upon user input. In one embodiment, the user may only have access to a limited input device, like a stylus. Using the present invention, a user is provided with intuitive responses from the system based on inputs from the limited input device.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Leroy B. Keely, Charlton E. Lui, F. David Jones, Ryan Edward Cukierman, Susanne Alysia Clark Cazzanti, Marieke Iwema, Robert Jarrett
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Patent number: 7263657Abstract: A correction tool that displays a correction widget when a user acts to correct text is provided. More particularly, if the user places an insertion point in or to the immediate left of the text, or selects the text, the tool displays the correction widget immediately to the left of the selected text. The user can then quickly access a correction interface for correcting the text simply by moving the pointer the short distance from the insertion point to the correction widget. When the user activates the correction widget, the tool displays the correction interface immediately proximal to the correction widget. Thus, the user need only move the pointer a small distance further to then correct the text using the correction interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ravipal Soin, Adrian J. Garside, David V. Winkler, Luis M. Huapaya, Marieke Iwema
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Patent number: 7251786Abstract: Electronic note taking is enhanced by automatically modifying an electronic document corresponding to a user's meeting notes to include at least some data from an electronic calendar or scheduling system in which the user's meeting is scheduled. For example, when an electronic note is created for a specific meeting, information about the meeting from the user's electronic calendar or scheduling system can automatically be included in the new electronic note. This information may be provided in the note in a form that allows it to be electronically searched and shared with others.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2003Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Roger Wynn, Kevin P. Paulson, Marieke Iwema, Shawna Swanson, Greg Manto
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Patent number: 7240012Abstract: A user interface is described that informs the user as to the status of the operation of a voice recognition application. The user interface displays an indicator, such as a volume bar, each time that the voice recognition application records and identifies a volume event. The user interface also displays an indicator when the voice recognition application recognizes a volume event corresponding to a displayed volume event indicator. The interface thus confirms to a user that the voice recognition application is both recording and recognizing the words being spoken by the user. It also graphically informs the user of the delay the application is currently experiencing in recognizing the words that the user is speaking.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp H Schmid, Marieke Iwema, Robert L Chambers, Adrian Garside
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Patent number: 7221376Abstract: A space tool that inserts space into or deletes space from a document is described. The space tool provides the user with feedback as to which objects will be moved when space is inserted into or deleted from a document. To provide the user with this feedback, the space tool identifies the objects that will be moved when space is inserted or deleted, and changes the appearance of these objects. For example, the space tool may gray out or fade identified electronic ink objects that will be moved. Alternatively, or additionally, the space tool may move identified objects in real time, so that their location continually corresponds with what their location will be after space has been inserted or deleted.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marieke Iwema, Emily K. Rimas, F. David Jones, Jamie N. Wakeam, Rich Grutzmacher
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Publication number: 20070097102Abstract: A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool close to a display and writing surface. Alternately, the guidelines may appear after the user has begun to write electronic ink, so that the guidelines can correspond to the angle at which the user is writing, the size of the user's handwriting, or both. As the user writes the electronic ink onto the writing surface, the handwritten electronic ink is added to the content being rendered on the display. After the user has finished writing electronic ink and moves the writing tool away from the writing surface, the guidelines may be deleted. Accordingly, the user can employ the temporary guidelines without the guidelines themselves becoming a permanent part of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Leroy Keely, Charlton Lui, Marieke Iwema, Luis Huapaya, Jeffrey Pettiross, Erik Geidl
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Publication number: 20070057930Abstract: A freeform selection tool for a computer system with a graphical user interface allows a user to draw a freeform selection path so as to select one or more graphical objects. The user is provided with the freedom to input selection ink, in any orientation, and using any desired selection path size provided by the select tool. The selecting tool may change the visual appearance of any graphical object once selected. The selecting tool provides the ability to select ink or graphical object with a particular property to be used for the selection. The selecting tool can recognize various selection gestures coordinated with a semantic relationship of the ink so that the number of selection ink strokes can be minimized. The selecting tool may change for different selection modes depending on the type of graphical object encountered and change of the context for a particular selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marieke Iwema, Leroy Keely, F. Jones, Robert Jarrett
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Patent number: D550697Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Paul Gusmorino, Mark R. Ligameri, Jenny T. Lam, Greg S. Melander, Robert Kenneth Stein, III, Marieke Iwema Watson
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Patent number: D553150Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adrienne E. O'Donnell, Michael A. LaJoie, Aaron Wesley Cunningham, Marieke Iwema Watson, Patrice Lynn Minor
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Patent number: D554145Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adrienne E. O'Donnell, Robert Ward Massa, Marieke Iwema Watson, Shawna Swanson
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Patent number: D557704Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adrienne E. O'Donnell, Michael A. LaJoie, Michael Gilmore, Robert Kenneth Stein, Tjeerd Hoek, Marieke Iwema Watson, Martijn van Tilburg
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Patent number: D575796Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bryan Pieratt, Luciana Bordallo Misura, Robert Kenneth Stein, Robert Ward Massa, Adrienne E. O'Donnell, Michael A. LaJoie, Michael Curato, Jenny Lam, Denise Michele Trabona, Tjeerd Hoek, Marieke Iwema Watson, Martijn van Tilburg, Russell Scott Randall, Michael Gilmore, Lindsey Barcheck, Dana Nunnelly, Manuel Clement