Patents by Inventor Cornelis K. Van Dok
Cornelis K. Van Dok 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: 10754489Abstract: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for pinning a tab in a tabbed browser. Briefly stated, browsing software is configured to recognize a “pin” event, such as a hot key, a menu selection, and the like. Upon recognizing the pin event, the browsing software splits a display screen into a pinned window and a tabbed window. The tabbed window displays one or more open tabs and the content of the currently in focus tab. The pinned window may display content that was previously displayed within one of the tabs in the tabbed window or may display new content. The browsing software may configure the navigation of the pinned window differently than the navigation for the tabs in the tabbed window.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Tony E. Schreiner, Charles Cummins, Cornelis K. Van Dok
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Patent number: 10489044Abstract: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number “7” may appear next to the cursor.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Charles Cummins, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Stephan Hoefnagels, Timothy P. McKee, Tyler K. Beam
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Patent number: 10423319Abstract: System(s) and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that present indicia for implicitly and explicitly user-associated web pages of a network browser application. The tools can present these indicia in a single graphic user interface, in response to a user's selection of a single unified access point, or in response to a search of the browser's user-associated web pages.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jeremiah Seth Epling, Li-Hsin Huang, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Jeffrey M. Davis
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Patent number: 9838380Abstract: Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a remote device. The certificate includes security information about a site maintained at the remote device. The security information is displayed to a user of the browsing software in a meaningful fashion to allow the user to make a trust determination about the site. Displaying the security information may include presenting a certificate summary that includes the most relevant information about the certificate, such as the name of the owner of the site and the name of the certificating authority of the certificate.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: ZHIGU HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Marc A. Silbey
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Patent number: 9785303Abstract: In a graphical user interface environment, a situational-specific browser may be used to provide contextually appropriate levels of information for files whose information is to be displayed. As different views of files are to be displayed, the browser may dynamically adjust its configuration to display different types of information, features and/or command options. Different views may be predefined, or new views may be dynamically created in response to user navigation.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Paul Cutsinger, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Eli Y. Tamanaha, Kenneth M. Tubbs, Lyon K. F. Wong, Paul Gusmorino, Sasanka Chalivendra
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Patent number: 9626079Abstract: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing multiple content windows. The content windows may host a web browser, a shell view, a word processing application, and the like. A set of content windows are grouped into a frame in a manner such that a taskbar shows one item for the set of content windows. Each content window is associated with a tab for the frame. A content-specific menu may be associated with each tab. The content-specific menu includes a set of commands based on the heterogeneous content hosted in the content window. The set of commands provide functionality to the heterogeneous content.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Charles Cummins, Tony E. Schreiner
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Publication number: 20170026363Abstract: Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a remote device. The certificate includes security information about a site maintained at the remote device. The security information is displayed to a user of the browsing software in a meaningful fashion to allow the user to make a trust determination about the site. Displaying the security information may include presenting a certificate summary that includes the most relevant information about the certificate, such as the name of the owner of the site and the name of the certificating authority of the certificate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Marc A. Silbey
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Publication number: 20160357383Abstract: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number “7” may appear next to the cursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: CHARLES CUMMINS, CORNELIS K. VAN DOK, DAVID G. DE VORCHIK, STEPHAN HOEFNAGELS, TIMOTHY P. MCKEE, TYLER K. BEAM
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Patent number: 9444630Abstract: Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a remote device. The certificate includes security information about a site maintained at the remote device. The security information is displayed to a user of the browsing software in a meaningful fashion to allow the user to make a trust determination about the site. Displaying the security information may include presenting a certificate summary that includes the most relevant information about the certificate, such as the name of the owner of the site and the name of the certificating authority of the certificate.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Inventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Marc A. Silbey
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Patent number: 9354800Abstract: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number “7” may appear next to the cursor.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Charles Cummins, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Stephan Hoefnagels, Timothy P. McKee, Tyler K. Beam
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Patent number: 9317192Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are directed to the stacking of visual items, and their subsequent expansion, or unstacking Upon selection of a stack, that stack expands into the individual visual items making up that stack. Further aspects of the present invention are directed to expanding a stack in different ways depending upon the circumstances. Further aspects of the present invention are directed to providing a hot area associated with, and potentially disposed around, a stack. Selection by the user of the hot area results in selection of the associated stack. The stack may itself be considered a single item that is itself selectable. After the stack is expanded, then the individual visual items making up the original stack are each individually selectable. However, when stacked, the individual items may not be selectable except as a complete stack.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Cornelis K Van Dok, Fabrice A Debry, Lyon King-Fook Wong, Timothy P McKee, Andrew S Crane
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Publication number: 20160011760Abstract: System(s) and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that present indicia for implicitly and explicitly user-associated web pages of a network browser application. The tools can present these indicia in a single graphic user interface, in response to a user's selection of a single unified access point, or in response to a search of the browser's user-associated web pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jeremiah Seth Epling, Li-Hsin Huang, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Jeffrey M. Davis
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Patent number: 9141716Abstract: System(s) and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that present indicia for implicitly and explicitly user-associated web pages of a network browser application. The tools can present these indicia in a single graphic user interface, in response to a user's selection of a single unified access point, or in response to a search of the browser's user-associated web pages.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jeremiah Seth Epling, Li-Hsin Huang, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Jeffrey M. Davis
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Patent number: 8972342Abstract: A metadata management architecture. The architecture includes a property component that lists one or more properties related to a file, and a viewing component that present files having one or more of the related properties. A synchronization component provides immediate synchronization between property editing fields of the property component and a view in the property-based browser component, providing both instantaneous feedback on property changes and an ability to manipulate properties graphically. Thus, a change in the property pane is immediately reflected in the view component, and a change in the view component is immediately reflected in the property pane.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrzej Turski, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Lili Cheng, Lyon K. F. Wong, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Patrice L. Miner
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Patent number: 8843749Abstract: Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a remote device. The certificate includes security information about a site maintained at the remote device. The security information is displayed to a user of the browsing software in a meaningful fashion to allow the user to make a trust determination about the site. Displaying the security information may include presenting a certificate summary that includes the most relevant information about the certificate, such as the name of the owner of the site and the name of the certificating authority of the certificate.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Marc A. Silbey
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Publication number: 20140223356Abstract: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing multiple content windows. The content windows may host a web browser, a shell view, a word processing application, and the like. A set of content windows are grouped into a frame in a manner such that a taskbar shows one item for the set of content windows. Each content window is associated with a tab for the frame. A content-specific menu may be associated with each tab. The content-specific menu includes a set of commands based on the heterogeneous content hosted in the content window. The set of commands provide functionality to the heterogeneous content.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Charles Cummins, Tony E. Schreiner
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Patent number: 8782073Abstract: A system and related techniques accept user-inputted search terms, for example to perform a search for files or other data or objects. Corresponding matches to those terms may be presented to the user in a “word-wheel”-type breakout list generated on the fly for groupings of hits by attributes or other criteria, as the system searches through the file system at the current level or point in the file system hierarchy. Search results may be continuously or dynamically updated as the user, for example, enters more characters or other data.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Colin R. Anthony, Richard M. Banks, Marieke I. Watson, Cornelis K. Van Dok
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Patent number: 8713444Abstract: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing multiple content windows. The content windows may host a web browser, a shell view, a word processing application, and the like. A set of content windows are grouped into a frame in a manner such that a taskbar shows one item for the set of content windows. Each content window is associated with a tab for the frame. A content-specific menu may be associated with each tab. The content-specific menu includes a set of commands based on the heterogeneous content hosted in the content window. The set of commands provide functionality to the heterogeneous content.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Charles Cummins, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Tony E. Schreiner
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Patent number: 8707209Abstract: In a graphical user interface environment, a request to save a file may result in a display of a location or view in which the file is to be saved, and may include a preview indicia representing the to-be-saved file. The user may interact with the preview indicia to edit the new file's metadata by repositioning the indicia in a different view, and/or the system may automatically update the preview indicia's location in response to the user editing displayed metadata properties for the new file. The preview indicia may have a distinct appearance, and may persist to show the user how the new file can be located after the save process is performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lyon K. F. Wong, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. DeVorchik, Matthew MacLaurin, Patrice L. Miner, Walter R. Smith, Philip P. Fortier
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Publication number: 20140075325Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts dynamically determined to be recent contacts is retrieved from the data store, based on properties such as a most recent communication time, a communication count, and the like. Real-time communication data corresponding to contacts identified as pinned contacts for which display of real-time communication data is preferred, also may be retrieved. A user interface is generated for displaying the one or more recent and/or pinned contacts, which may vary in size based on the number of contacts identified as pinned contacts, from which a contact may be selected for real-time conversation or e-mail.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Sean O. Blagsvedt, Ahsan S. Kabir, Roman L. Deeds, Peyman Oreizy, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Kevin M. Otnes, Mark Schofield, Colin R. Anthony, Christopher J. Araman