Patents by Inventor Steve Dodge

Steve Dodge 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).

  • Patent number: 7490296
    Abstract: An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into that control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyril Feldman, Robert L Chambers, Steve Dodge, Takanobu Murayama, Tobiasz Zielinski, Todd A Torset, Thomas R Wick, Adrian J Garside
  • Patent number: 7463371
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7453585
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7450261
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7446894
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7443531
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7436535
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7428736
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Publication number: 20070195067
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically calibrating a pointing device, such as a stylus, with a writing surface, such as a touch screen. In one example, an automated method is implemented to calibrate the writing surface based user inputs attempting to use the computer for functions other than calibration of the writing surface. The user inputs may be, for example, a user selecting a button within a non-calibration software application. The automated method may generate a miscalibration vector based upon where the user input was received and where the user input was expected. In yet another example, a bias field may be generated for the writing surface from the collected user inputs. In yet other examples, a computing device may comprise computer-executable instructions for performing one or methods of calibrating the writing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Zotov, Reed Townsend, Sameer Shariff, Steve Dodge
  • Publication number: 20070153300
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7239401
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Publication number: 20070121125
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7218779
    Abstract: Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having a first predetermined granularity (e.g., words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, drawings, etc.); and (c) making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application. This “information” made available to the application may include, for example, the actual groupings of the strokes, the number of stroke groupings having the first predetermined granularity, machine generated text corresponding to the stroke groupings, or the like. The results of the divide method may be stored in an ink division result object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Gounares, Arin J Goldberg, Bodin Dresevic, Jerome J Turner, Matthew Paul Rhoten, Robert L Chambers, Sashi Raghupathy, Timothy H Kannapel, Tobiasz Zielinski, Zoltan C Szilagyi
  • Patent number: 7212296
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7205985
    Abstract: A reflow tool employs layout information from an ink analyzer to determine a relationship between different units of electronic ink, such as words. The reflow tool then collects this relationship information into an ink relationship data structure for later use. When the reflow area containing the electronic ink is resized, or when an edit space is inserted into or deleted from the electronic ink, the reflow tool uses the relationship information from the data structure to intelligently segment the electronic ink for reflow. In this manner, the reflow tool ensures that units of electronic ink, such as words, which are associated with larger groupings of electronic ink, such as paragraphs, are not segmented from those larger groupings to which they belong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Arin J Goldberg, Haiyong Wang
  • Patent number: 7199885
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj K. Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Patent number: 7167585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
  • Patent number: 7158675
    Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
  • Publication number: 20060132817
    Abstract: A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman, Manoj Biswas, Rudolph Balaz, Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah
  • Publication number: 20060093219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj Biswas, Robert Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen Fisher, Arin Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette Krantz, Todd Torset, Jerome Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz Somji