Patents by Inventor Sohit Karol

Sohit Karol 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).

  • Multi-finger touchpad gestures
    Patent number: 10296206
    Abstract: A multi-finger touchpad gesture refers to a movement of multiple fingers in a particular pattern across a touchpad. The touchpad senses the multiple fingers, and based on the sensed finger locations and finger movements, one of multiple multi-finger touchpad gestures is detected. A user interface being presented on a display is altered as appropriate in response to the detected multi-finger touchpad gesture. Various different multi-finger touchpad gestures can be detected. The multi-finger touchpad gestures can include a gesture that traverses different hierarchical views of the operating system user interface, a gesture that switches between two recent windows, a gesture that traverses a back stack of windows, a gesture that displays a window selection view and selects a particular window, and a gesture that moves a window to a different location (including snapping a window to an edge or corner of the display).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Doan, Matthew I. Worley, Tyler J. Donahue, Emily Grace Sappington, Sohit Karol, Nidhi S. Sanghai, Miron Vranjes, Matthew Kiichi Slemon, Andrew P. Mittereder
  • MULTI-FINGER TOUCHPAD GESTURES
    Publication number: 20160085438
    Abstract: A multi-finger touchpad gesture refers to a movement of multiple fingers in a particular pattern across a touchpad. The touchpad senses the multiple fingers, and based on the sensed finger locations and finger movements, one of multiple multi-finger touchpad gestures is detected. A user interface being presented on a display is altered as appropriate in response to the detected multi-finger touchpad gesture. Various different multi-finger touchpad gestures can be detected. The multi-finger touchpad gestures can include a gesture that traverses different hierarchical views of the operating system user interface, a gesture that switches between two recent windows, a gesture that traverses a back stack of windows, a gesture that displays a window selection view and selects a particular window, and a gesture that moves a window to a different location (including snapping a window to an edge or corner of the display).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Doan, Matthew I. Worley, Tyler J. Donahue, Emily Grace Sappington, Sohit Karol, Nidhi S. Sanghai, Miron Vranjes, Matthew Kiichi Slemon, Andrew P. Mittereder