Patents by Inventor Andrew C. Jennings

Andrew C. Jennings 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).

  • CUSTOMIZED LAUNCHING OF APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20120260202
    Abstract: The present application allows third party applications to have customizable entry pages. In one embodiment, an Application Programming Interface (API) is used by a locally executed application to store an application entry page and/or parameters in an application database to make the entry page of the application customized to the user. In another embodiment, an icon is automatically generated in response to the API storing the customizable entry page. In yet another embodiment, multiple icons can be used for multiple customizable entry pages of a single application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rachel Jiang, Christopher A. Glein, Andrew C. Jennings, Alper Selcuk, Daniel Alan Zucker