Patents by Inventor Daniel O. Rathbone

Daniel O. Rathbone 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: 8375356
    Abstract: A tabular completion list displays customizable rows and columns including information such as but not limited to return types of methods, types of local variables and properties, parameters for methods, a namespace in which a type is defined, an assembly in which a type is defined, accessibility, or a type from which members are inherited. The context of the tabular completion list may be preserved by persisting the completion list display or by transferring the context of a selected row of field in a row of the tabular completion list to a different feature. User interaction options with the tabular completion list may include: selection of the columns that are displayed in the completion list, persisting the completion list display, transferring the context of the completion list window to other features and sorting of the rows of tabular information according to different columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel O. Rathbone, Kevin A. Pilch-Bisson, Karen K. Liu
  • Publication number: 20090313597
    Abstract: A tabular completion list displays customizable rows and columns including information such as but not limited to return types of methods, types of local variables and properties, parameters for methods, a namespace in which a type is defined, an assembly in which a type is defined, accessibility, or a type from which members are inherited. The context of the tabular completion list may be preserved by persisting the completion list display or by transferring the context of a selected row of field in a row of the tabular completion list to a different feature. User interaction options with the tabular completion list may include: selection of the columns that are displayed in the completion list, persisting the completion list display, transferring the context of the completion list window to other features and sorting of the rows of tabular information according to different columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel O. Rathbone, Kevin A. Pilch-Bisson, Karen K. Liu