Patents by Inventor Martin Sawicki

Martin Sawicki 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).

  • Representing user edit permission of regions within an electronic document
    Patent number: 7389473
    Abstract: Regions within editable objects of electronic document can be defined such that specific editing permissions can be granted to specific users for specific regions. The regions can be expressed in a ML format such that a variety of applications that consume ML content can operate in accordance with the granted permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Sawicki, Robert Little, Brian Jones, Katsuhiro Alex Namba
  • Mixed content flexibility for XML editors
    Patent number: 7275209
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards providing mixed content flexibility for word-processing document in an XML (or ML) file format. Mixed content can be provided within an XML file such that validation of the file will not produce errors even when an associated schema does not recognize the text. Additionally, the XML (or ML) file can be output such that the mixed content does not appear in the output file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Jones, Edgar Mark Sunderland, Robert Little, Martin Sawicki
  • Representing document options, properties and backwards compatibility settings using a markup language
    Patent number: 7257772
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards representing the native document settings of an application in a markup language such as XML. Applications that are capable of parsing the markup language are then able to parse the saved document settings and handle the document accordingly. Document settings saved in XML are human-readable, which simplifies maintenance of the document by humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Jones, Robert Little, Martin Sawicki, Andrew Bishop