Patents by Inventor Sankar Ramasubtamanian

Sankar Ramasubtamanian 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).

  • Operating system shell having a windowing graphical user interface with a desktop displayed as a hypertext multimedia document
    Patent number: 6061695
    Abstract: An operating system shell provides a graphical user interface having a windowing environment with a desktop. The shell synthesizes a hypertext page for display as the desktop in the graphical user interface. The hypertext page has an embedded software object which provides graphical icon-oriented and menu-driven user interface elements for activating operating system services in the displayed hypertext page. The shell also provides windowed hypertext pages for managing file system folders. The shell synthesizes the hypertext pages from templates which can be edited to incorporate a variety of multi-media enhancements with the user interface elements in the graphical user interface. Templates can be associated with specific folders in the file system to provide folder specific hypertext pages integrated with user interface elements for managing the folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin W. Slivka, Teresa Anne Martineau, Christopher Ralph Brown, George Pitt, Satoshi Nakajima, Sankar Ramasubtamanian, Mike Sheldon