Patents by Inventor Timothy P. Wantland

Timothy P. Wantland 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: 9552129
    Abstract: Search results may be rendered on a map utilizing one or more points of interest. An individual point of interest may include a casing layer and a core layer. Casing layers and/or core layers may be configured to change in size and color at different levels of detail associated with zoom operations. Zoom operations may further include de-clustering overlapping points of interest to eliminate overlap. A hover input associated with a cluster may render a numerical value associated with a corresponding number of points of interest that appear in the cluster. Various embodiments provide a visual language that enables a continuous representation, at different levels of detail, that range from a single discrete point to multiple points that are near each other or clustered together to unify the look-and-feel of represented elements and provide interactive consistency across various map properties and platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gonzalo A. Ramos, Timothy P. Wantland, Donald A. Barnett, Romualdo T. Impas
  • Publication number: 20150278765
    Abstract: A method for displaying an information collection includes collecting a plurality of user signals associated with a user of a device, and identifying a first subject from the plurality of user signals. The first subject has at least a first piece of information. A connection between the first subject and a second subject is determined, and a second piece of information from the second subject is determined. The second piece of information is relevant to the first piece of information. The first and second pieces of information are assembled into a user information collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jagannatha Raju Dantuluri, Marc Christopher Pottier, Karan Singh, Deborah Briana Harrison, David M. Gardner, Shira Weinberg, Michael M. Tse, Richa Prasad, Timothy P. Wantland, Shane Landry, Susan Michele Hendrich
  • Publication number: 20150234547
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating a scene of a visual interface with a portal. For example, one or more points of interest may be identified for the scene (e.g., a lake, a park, a condo, and/or other points of interest for a city scene). The scene may be populated with portals corresponding to the points of interest (e.g., a portal may have a semi-transparent perimeter compassing at least some of a point of interest, which may mitigate occlusion of the scene). A portal may be hydrated with imagery of a point of interest to provide a preview of the point of interest (e.g., a first portal for the lake may be hydrated with imagery of the lake). A user may seamlessly navigate between and/or explore scenes by selecting portals to transition the visual interface to new scenes depicting corresponding points of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Donald A. Barnett, Romualdo T. Impas, Timothy P. Wantland, Michael Bray, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Blaise Aguera y Arcas
  • Publication number: 20130249812
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a visual language that enables a continuous representation, at different levels of detail, that range from a single discrete point to multiple points that are near each other or clustered together to unify the look-and-feel of represented elements and provide interactive consistency across various map properties and platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gonzalo A. Ramos, Timothy P. Wantland, Donald A. Barnett, Romualdo T. Impas