Patents by Inventor Catherine Wissink

Catherine Wissink 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: 9471301
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates that are configured for implementation on a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cameron B. Lerum, Catherine A. Wissink, Roxanne M. Seubert, Sushmita Subramanian, Vivek R. Rao, Yaron Hezroni
  • Publication number: 20150309787
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates that are configured for implementation on a remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Cameron B. Lerum, Catherine A. Wissink, Roxanne M. Seubert, Sushmita Subramanian, Vivek R. Rao, Yaron Hezroni
  • Patent number: 9092298
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates that are configured for implementation on a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cameron B. Lerum, Catherine A. Wissink, Roxanne M. Seubert, Sushmita Subramanian, Vivek R. Rao, Yaron Hezroni
  • Patent number: 8429626
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are directed at obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates configured to change the content that is displayed by default when a program executes. More specifically, the method includes obtaining input that describes one or more content updates. In this regard, the input received may include the user-defined content that will be displayed when the program executes and the identity of the content displayed by default. Then, the method assembles selected content updates into a package that is suitable for transmission over a network connection. When the package is assembled, processing is provided that allows the content updates in the package to be implemented on a remote computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cameron B. Lerum, Catherine A. Wissink, Roxanne M. Seubert, Sushmita Subramanian, Vivek R. Rao, Yaron Hezroni
  • Publication number: 20090030903
    Abstract: A collation creation process is provided to automatically establish collation support for sorted linguistic data. The sorted linguistic data is examined to determine if it matches an existing collation support. If not, a new collation support is created for the sorted linguistic data. The provider of the sorted linguistic data may participate in the collation creation process by answering queries concerning the sorted linguistic data. The provider's input is integrated into the sorted linguistic data before the collation creation process is applied to the sorted linguistic data. A user interface is provided that enables the interaction between the provider of the sorted linguistic data and the collation creation process. The user interface provides visual cues identifying distinctions among the strings in the sorted linguistic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Catherine A. Wissink, Michael S. Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20080201703
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are directed at obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates configured to change the content that is displayed by default when a program executes. More specifically, the method includes obtaining input that describes one or more content updates. In this regard, the input received may include the user-defined content that will be displayed when the program executes and the identity of the content displayed by default. Then, the method assembles selected content updates into a package that is suitable for transmission over a network connection. When the package is assembled, processing is provided that allows the content updates in the package to be implemented on a remote computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cameron B. Lerum, Catherine A. Wissink, Roxanne M. Seubert, Sushmita Subramanian, Vivek R. Rao, Yaron Hezroni
  • Publication number: 20070226201
    Abstract: As a user interacts with a program, an object may be presented that, when invoked, allows the user to provide feedback about content encountered when using a program. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that collects feedback from the user at a centralized computer system. The method includes allowing a user to generate an event in order to provide feedback while using a program. In response to the event being generated, the method collects a set of data that includes (1) contextual data from which the source of the content may be identified; (2) the identity of the content selected by the user; and (3) user generated feedback that describes an issue with the content. Then, the set of data is communicated from a computer associated with the user to a centralized computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cameron Lerum, Catherine Wissink, Emma Archer, Roxanne Seubert, Sushmita Subramanian, Vivek Rao, Yaron Hezroni
  • Publication number: 20060101015
    Abstract: A collation creation process is provided to automatically establish collation support for sorted linguistic data. The sorted linguistic data is examined to determine if it matches an existing collation support. If not, a new collation support is created for the sorted linguistic data. The provider of the sorted linguistic data may participate in the collation creation process by answering queries concerning the sorted linguistic data. The provider's input is integrated into the sorted linguistic data before the collation creation process is applied to the sorted linguistic data. A user interface is provided that enables the interaction between the provider of the sorted linguistic data and the collation creation process. The user interface provides visual cues identifying distinctions among the strings in the sorted linguistic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine Wissink, Michael Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20060100857
    Abstract: A user interface is provided to facilitate a collation creation process that automatically establishes collation support for sorted linguistic data. Through this user interface, the provider of the sorted linguistic data may participate in the collation creation process by answering queries concerning the sorted linguistic data. The provider's input is integrated into the sorted linguistic data before the collation creation process is applied to the sorted linguistic data. The user interface enables the interaction between the provider of the sorted linguistic data and the collation creation process. The user interface provides information concerning the sorted linguistic data, such as Unicode codepoints and character properties. The user interface provides visual cues identifying distinctions among the strings in the sorted linguistic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine Wissink, Michael Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20050091035
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for handling the collation of linguistic symbols of different languages that may have various types of compressions (e.g., from 2-to-1 to 8-to-1). A symbol table of the symbols identified as Unicode code points is generated, with each symbol tagged with a highest compression type of that symbol by sorting the compression tables of the various languages. During a sorting operation with respect to a given string, the tag of a symbol in the string is checked to identify the highest compression type of compressions beginning with that symbol, and the compression tables for the language with compression types equal or lower than the highest compression type of the symbol are searched using a binary search method to find a matching compression for the symbols in the string. A common search module is used to perform binary searches through compression tables of different compression types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kaplan, Catherine Wissink, Julie Bennett