Patents by Inventor Andrew Jude Byrne
Andrew Jude Byrne 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).
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Patent number: 9436437Abstract: Organizing data where the data has spatial significance. A method includes, at a user interface, displaying to a user a representation of spatially structured data. User input is received at a computer implemented user interface through one or more hardware user interface devices. The user input is domain agnostic, but has a spatial connotation. Based on pre-existing structured data displayed at the user interface, a domain is determined for the user input. Based on the determined domain, the user input is interpreted into a domain specific response. The domain specific response is consistent with the spatial connotation across a plurality of domains.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jens K. Jacobsen, Sadi Khan, Gareth Alun Jones, Tyler Edward Gibson, Steven Douglas De Mar, Andrew Jude Byrne
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Patent number: 8997024Abstract: A method includes transmitting an interface to a display device, where the interface represents a view of at least a portion of a graph. The graph is based on a model of a system and includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of links, where at least one node of the graph includes another node. The method includes receiving a command to store a placemarker corresponding to the view and storing the placemarker. The placemarker is selectable to restore the view at the interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stuart John Harding Kent, Blair Stuart McGlashan, Jens Kåre Jacobsen, Tyler Edward Gibson, Andrew Jude Byrne, Sadi Sufi Khan
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Patent number: 8578326Abstract: Local areas of a visualized modeling language diagram are viewable at different levels of detail without losing information such as model elements and their connectivity. Multiple elements are associated with a group element, which has a visual portion derived from the appearance of a group member element. Connectors between group member elements and non-member elements are suppressed in favor of replacement connectors between the group element and the non-member element(s). The integrity of incoming and outgoing connections to the group is maintained relative to the rest of the model. Ungrouping elements restores the elements to their original state. Grouping can be applied locally to one or more parts of the visual model.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick S. Tseng, Durham Goode, John Joseph Jordan, Bernie Tschirren, Arun Abraham, Abhishek Shah, Andrew Jude Byrne, Suhail Dutta
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Patent number: 8363054Abstract: Embodiments are directed to determining an appropriate neighborhood region for updating a node layout of an interactive diagramming system. A computer system receives an input indicating at least one change to various selected nodes displayed in the interactive diagramming system, where the changes to the selected nodes affect the positions of the other nodes on the node layout. The computer system traverses adjacent node edges to determine s minimal node neighborhood to which the node changes are to be applied. The computer system accesses diagram parameters that identify diagram and node characteristics and determines the minimal neighborhood region based on both the determined number of adjacent nodes and the accessed parameters. The computer system also updates the position of the selected node and the updated positions of those nodes and corresponding edges that are determined to be within the neighborhood region.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Jude Byrne, Timothy Garry Dwyer, Durham Montgomery Goode, Yanlin Hou, Jens K. Jacobsen, Sadi Sufi Khan
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Publication number: 20120154283Abstract: Organizing data where the data has spatial significance. A method includes, at a user interface, displaying to a user a representation of spatially structured data. User input is received at a computer implemented user interface through one or more hardware user interface devices. The user input is domain agnostic, but has a spatial connotation. Based on pre-existing structured data displayed at the user interface, a domain is determined for the user input. Based on the determined domain, the user input is interpreted into a domain specific response. The domain specific response is consistent with the spatial connotation across a plurality of domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jens K. Jacobsen, Sadi Khan, Gareth Alun Jones, Tyler Edward Gibson, Steven Douglas De Mar, Andrew Jude Byrne
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Publication number: 20120151419Abstract: A method includes transmitting an interface to a display device, where the interface represents a view of at least a portion of a graph. The graph is based on a model of a system and includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of links, where at least one node of the graph includes another node. The method includes receiving a command to store a placemarker corresponding to the view and storing the placemarker. The placemarker is selectable to restore the view at the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Stuart John Harding Kent, Blair Stuart McGlashan, Jens Kåre Jacobsen, Tyler Edward Gibson, Andrew Jude Byrne, Sadi Sufi Khan
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Publication number: 20110310117Abstract: Embodiments are directed to determining an appropriate neighborhood region for updating a node layout of an interactive diagramming system. A computer system receives an input indicating at least one change to various selected nodes displayed in the interactive diagramming system, where the changes to the selected nodes affect the positions of the other nodes on the node layout. The computer system traverses adjacent node edges to determine s minimal node neighborhood to which the node changes are to be applied. The computer system accesses diagram parameters that identify diagram and node characteristics and determines the minimal neighborhood region based on both the determined number of adjacent nodes and the accessed parameters. The computer system also updates the position of the selected node and the updated positions of those nodes and corresponding edges that are determined to be within the neighborhood region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Jude Byrne, Timothy Garry Dwyer, Durham Montgomery Goode, Yanlin Hou, Jens K. Jacobsen, Sadi Sufi Khan
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Publication number: 20100262949Abstract: An automatic relationship selector can be used with complex visualized modeling languages, such as Unified Modeling Language, to help users obtain appropriate relationship types for connectors. The selector automatically selects a connector relationship type based on relationship selection criteria which may include element types, an implicit default, an explicit default, and/or a heuristic default. A user can manually override automatically selected connector relationship type assignments. A helper lets a user set aggregation and other connector relationship properties. Automatic relationship type selection is done in-place while a connector is being positioned, to maintain the user interface's focus on the design diagram and avoid interrupting the user's design drafting flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jens Jacobsen, Andrew Jude Byrne, Ian Michael Bavey, Jing "Frank" Fan
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Publication number: 20100251187Abstract: Local areas of a visualized modeling language diagram are viewable at different levels of detail without losing information such as model elements and their connectivity. Multiple elements are associated with a group element, which has a visual portion derived from the appearance of a group member element. Connectors between group member elements and non-member elements are suppressed in favor of replacement connectors between the group element and the non-member element(s). The integrity of incoming and outgoing connections to the group is maintained relative to the rest of the model. Ungrouping elements restores the elements to their original state. Grouping can be applied locally to one or more parts of the visual model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick S. Tseng, Durham Goode, John Joseph Jordan, Bernie Tschirren, Arun Abraham, Abhishek Shah, Andrew Jude Byrne, Suhail Dutta