Patents by Inventor Annette Kay Leedy

Annette Kay Leedy 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: 7512892
    Abstract: A document viewer control that is hosted by another computer program to provide that program with document viewing functionality, including enabling user interaction with the content. An interface provides the program with plug-in access to document viewing functionality, including scrolling, zooming, finding, layout, copying and the like. Properties may be retrieved and set via the interface, and commands may be issued. The result is that any program can provide document viewing functionality in a consistent manner. Moreover, via styles or the like, a program developer can deactivate and/or override default functionality, to customize and/or extend the document viewer as desired for a given program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Sellers, Heather L. Grantham, Joshua A. Dersch, Jeremy W. J. Newton-Smith, Nicholas Gregg Brown, Annette Kay Leedy