Patents Assigned to Microsoft Patent Group
  • Publication number: 20070260648
    Abstract: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, identifies and provides an audience-appropriate version of a document, upon request. In one approach to this technology, a request for the document is received at a document-specific access point associated with that document. This document request is associated with specific file access authorizations. These specific file access authorizations are used to identify one of the available versions of the document. The version of the document so identified is then retrieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicants: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Patent Group
    Inventors: Dustin Friesenhahn, Mingquan Xue
  • Publication number: 20070226615
    Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion and altered appearance. When altering the appearance of the characters, the system operates on a set of control points associated with characters, changes the position of the characters, and changes the influence of the portion of characters on a set of respective spline curves. A designer or other user can customize the fonts and user experience by creating an episode package that specifies words to include in the user interface, and details about actions to take when certain events fire. The episode package can include media effects to play when a particular event associated with the media effect occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicants: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Patent Group
    Inventors: Margaret K. Johnson, Heinz W. Schuller, Howard W. Phillips, Michel Pahud