Patents by Inventor Bjorn C. Retting

Bjorn C. Retting 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).

  • Multilingual user interface for an operating system
    Patent number: 7464334
    Abstract: In an operating system, a resource handler accepts resource requests from application modules. A resource request identifies a module from which the requested resource is to be obtained. Rather than providing the resource from the identified module, however, the resource handler provides the requested resource from an associated resource module. An association between an executable module and resource modules of different languages is created by a defined file naming convention, optionally using different directories for resource modules of different languages. Some executable modules contain a shared resource reference which can be used to create an association between multiple executable modules and a single set of shared resource modules. A language fallback mechanism allows alternative languages to be used where resource modules of the appropriate language are not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edward S. Miller, Bjorn C. Retting, Gregory Wilson, Shan Xu, Arul A. Meneze, Michael J. Thomson, Sharad Mathur, Roberto Cazzaro, Michael Ginsberg
  • Multilingual user interface for an operating system
    Patent number: 6717588
    Abstract: In an operating system, a resource handler accepts resource requests from application modules. A resource request identifies a module from which the requested resource is to be obtained. Rather than providing the resource from the identified module, however, the resource handler provides the requested resource from an associated resource module. An association between an executable module and resource modules of different languages is created by a defined file naming convention, optionally using different directories for resource modules of different languages. Some executable modules contain a shared resource reference which can be used to create an association between multiple executable modules and a single set of shared resource modules. A language fallback mechanism allows alternative languages to be used where resource modules of the appropriate language are not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edward S. Miller, Bjorn C. Retting, Gregory Wilson, Shan Xu, Arul A. Meneze, Michael J. Thomson, Sharad Mathur, Roberto Cazzaro, Michael Ginsberg