Patents by Inventor Andrew Jennings

Andrew 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).

  • Patent number: 10606615
    Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
  • Publication number: 20200057534
    Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
  • Publication number: 20170160888
    Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
  • Patent number: 9612847
    Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
  • Patent number: 8572703
    Abstract: A system and method for authenticating a user of an image processing system. User credentials are received at an authentication device corresponding to an image processing device, and transmitted to a first server remote from the authentication device. The validity of the user credentials are judged by comparing the received user credentials to authentication information stored at the first server, and a result of the judging is transmitted to the image processing device. The image processing device then requests access to a second server remote from the image processing device, and the second server transmits a request for the user credentials to the first server. After receiving the user credentials from the first server, the second server performs user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Americas Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong, Helen Wang, Weiyun Tang, Andrew Jennings, Revathi Vellanki
  • Patent number: 8098395
    Abstract: An image processing device and method for modifying images on an image processing device including a scanner configured to produce an image of at least one document having multiple pages, a communications interface configured to connect the image processing device to a server via a network, a display unit configured to display a preview image or a thumbnail image of at least one of the pages of the scanned document and a user interface configured to display a selectable graphical indicia corresponding to at least one operation for modifying the preview image or the at least one image of the scanned document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd, Ricoh Americas Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitada, Helen Wang, Weiyun Tang, Andrew Jennings, Shen Xu
  • Patent number: 7655644
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), wherein both p's are one or two, R1 is generally heteroaryl or cycloalkyl, R2 is C3-6cycloalkyl or phenyl and R3 is heteroaryl, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as GlyT1 inhibitors for treating schizophrenia, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited
    Inventors: Wesley Peter Blackaby, Stephen Robert Fletcher, Andrew Jennings, Richard Thomas Lewis, Elizabeth Mary Naylor, Leslie Joseph Street, Joanne Thomson
  • Publication number: 20090199133
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for generating a destination list from usage data captured at a data store and for rending destinations within a submenu area upon detecting a request from a user. Generating the destination list may involve selecting items from a listing of frequently used items, a listing of recently used items, or any other listing of items compiled internal to an operating system or provided by a target application. Typically, the items are selected according to configuration settings of the destination list. Rendering destinations within the submenu area may involve accessing the destination list by selecting a split button proximate to a presentation of an application launcher. Typically, the destination list references items managed by an application invoked by the application launcher. Destinations retrieved from the destination list are populated into the submenu area based on size characteristics thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: REBECCA J. DEUTSCH, RANDALL K. WINJUM, PATRICE L. MINER, Benjamin Betz, ANDREW JENNINGS
  • Publication number: 20090199122
    Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
  • Publication number: 20080244712
    Abstract: A system and method for authenticating a user of an image processing system. User credentials are received at an authentication device corresponding to an image processing device, and transmitted to a first server remote from the authentication device. The validity of the user credentials are judged by comparing the received user credentials to authentication information stored at the first server, and a result of the judging is transmitted to the image processing device. The image processing device then requests access to a second server remote from the image processing device, and the second server transmits a request for the user credentials to the first server. After receiving the user credentials from the first server, the second server performs user authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi KITADA, Lana Wong, Helen Wang, Weiyun Tang, Andrew Jennings, Revathi Vellanki
  • Publication number: 20080239329
    Abstract: An image processing device and method for modifying images on an image processing device including a scanner configured to produce an image of at least one document having multiple pages, a communications interface configured to connect the image processing device to a server via a network, a display unit configured to display a preview image or a thumbnail image of at least one of the pages of the scanned document and a user interface configured to display a selectable graphical indicia corresponding to at least one operation for modifying the preview image or the at least one image of the scanned document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitada, Helen Wang, Weiyun Tang, Andrew Jennings, Shen Xu
  • Publication number: 20080090796
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), wherein both p's are one or two, R1 is generally heteroaryl or cycloalkyl, R2 is C3-6cycloalkyl or phenyl and R3 is heteroaryl, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as GlyT1 inhibitors for treating schizophrenia, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and methods for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Wesley Blackaby, Stephen Fletcher, Andrew Jennings, Richard Lewis, Elizabeth Naylor, Leslie Joseph, Joanne Thomson
  • Publication number: 20070254880
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyridyl, pyridazinyl, pyrimidinyl and pyrazinyl piperidine compounds that inhibit the glycine transporter GlyT1 and which are useful in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glycinergic or glutamatergic neurotransmission dysfunction and diseases in which the glycine transporter GlyT1 is involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Wesley Blackaby, Mark Duggan, David Hallett, George Hartman, Andrew Jennings, William Leister, Richard Lewis, Craig Lindsley, Elizabeth Naylor, Leslie Street, Yi Wang, David Wisnoski, Scott Wolkenberg, Zhijian Zhao
  • Publication number: 20070179858
    Abstract: The apparatus and methods disclosed herein implement a convenient and efficient web-browser based search-and-retrieve mechanism that incorporates a more responsive search engine coupled with an integrated collection display. The browser-based search-and-retrieve mechanism allows a user to quickly and easily retrieve a list of search items from a large database, select certain desired items, while continually having access to a visual interface displaying the collection of previously selected items. While viewing the collection of previously selected items, the search engine interface allows for the retrieval and selection of additional items from the database. In the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, the browser-based search-and-retrieve mechanism takes the form of a shopping cart with enhanced search capabilities for optimized online shopping websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Andrew Jennings
  • Publication number: 20070173527
    Abstract: Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods are provided for use with histone deacetylases (HDACs) that comprise a compound selected from the group consisting of: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Jerome Bressi, Jason Brown, Anthony Gangloff, Andrew Jennings, Stephen Kaldor, Robert Skene, Jeffrey Stafford, Phong Vu
  • Publication number: 20060235021
    Abstract: A class of 4-phenylpyridazine derivatives of Formula (I), being selective ligands for GABAA receptors, in particular having high affinity for the ?2 and/or ?3 and or ?5 subunit thereof, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of adverse conditions of the central nervous system, including anxiety, convulsions and cognitive disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Wesley Blackaby, Peter Blurton, Frank Burkamp, Stephen Fletcher, Andrew Jennings, Richard Lewis, Angus Macleod, Leslie Street, Steve Thomas, Monique Van Niel, Kevin Wilson
  • Publication number: 20060205941
    Abstract: Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods are provided for use with histone deacetylases (HDACs) that comprise a compound of the formulae: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Jerome Bressi, Jason Brown, Robert Skene, Jeffrey Stafford, Phong Vu, Anthony Gangloff, Andrew Jennings, Stephen Kaldor
  • Patent number: 6969716
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I, or an N-oxide thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein X1 represents hydrogen, halogen, C1-6 alkyl, trifluoromethyl or C1-6 alkoxy; X2 represents hydrogen or halogen; Z represents hydrogen, halogen, cyano, cyanomethyl, trifluoromethyl, nitro, hydroxy, hydroxy(C1-6)alkyl, C1-6 alkoxy, C1-6 alkoxy(C1-6)alkyl, trifluoromethoxy, trifluoromethylthio, trifluoromethanesulfinyl, formyl, C2-6 alkoxycarbonyl, oxopyrrolidinyl, or an optionally substituted aryl, heteroaryl or heteroaryl(C1-6)alkoxy group; and R1 represents aryl or heteroaryl, either of which groups may be optionally substituted; pharmaceutical compositions comprising it, its use in therapy and methods of treatment of anxiety and/or depression using it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd.
    Inventors: Wesley Peter Blackaby, Simon Charles Goodacre, David James Hallett, Andrew Jennings, Richard Thomas Lewis, Leslie Joseph Street, Kevin Wilson
  • Publication number: 20050250829
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds comprising the below formula that may be used to inhibit kinases as well as compositions of matter, kits and methods comprising these compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Jerome Bressi, Anthony Gangloff, David Hosfield, Andrew Jennings, Bheema Paraselli, Jeffrey Stafford
  • Patent number: 6936608
    Abstract: A class of 7-phenylimidazo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazine derivatives, substituted at the meta position of the phenyl ring by an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group which is directly attached or bridged by an oxygen atom or a —NH— linkage, being selective ligands for GABAA receptors, in particular having good affinity for the ?2 and/or ?3 and/or ?5 subunit thereof, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of adverse conditions of the central nervous system, including anxiety, convulsions and cognitive disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd.
    Inventors: Michela Bettati, Peter Blurton, William Robert Carling, Mark Stuart Chambers, David James Hallett, Andrew Jennings, Richard Thomas Lewis, Michael Geoffrey Neil Russell, Leslie Joseph Street, Helen Jane Szekeres, Monique Bodil Van Neil