Patents by Inventor David A. Kern

David A. Kern 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: 10769183
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enabling users to provide feedback on resources displayed in user interfaces. A feedback tool is executed to allow a user to specify a resource displayed in a user interface. Context metadata about the user interface is captured and stored by the feedback tool. The context metadata corresponds to runtime activity such as loading executable modules, rendering the user interface, handling windowing/input events, etc. The tool is used to specify a resource displayed in the user interface. This triggers capture of the specified resource and the runtime context metadata. The resource and context metadata are searched for in a database of known resources and their respective properties and identifiers. If a match is found, then the source-level identity of the resource is known. The feedback is associated with the resource and used to directly supplement or modify the resource in a source code resource file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Kern, Elliot N. Munger, Jared M. Green, Sven Merget, Bill L. Smith
  • Publication number: 20180322129
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enabling users to provide feedback on resources displayed in user interfaces. A feedback tool is executed to allow a user to specify a resource displayed in a user interface. Context metadata about the user interface is captured and stored by the feedback tool. The context metadata corresponds to runtime activity such as loading executable modules, rendering the user interface, handling windowing/input events, etc. The tool is used to specify a resource displayed in the user interface. This triggers capture of the specified resource and the runtime context metadata. The resource and context metadata are searched for in a database of known resources and their respective properties and identifiers. If a match is found, then the source-level identity of the resource is known. The feedback is associated with the resource and used to directly supplement or modify the resource in a source code resource file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: David A. Kern, Elliot N. Munger, Jared M. Green, Sven Merget, Bill L. Smith
  • Patent number: 6264125
    Abstract: There is hereinafter provided a reciprocating/oscillating structure for use in a fishing reel, wherein the guide carries a guide slot within it that is asymmetric in shape, and that creates two separate spool movement velocity regimes as the spool is moved forward and backward during recall of fishing line into the reel. The guide slot of the instant invention is asymmetrically constructed to produce, in a two-cycle-type spool movement arrangement, one spool velocity profile in the forward direction and a different spool velocity function in the rearward direction. In the preferred embodiment, the two velocity profiles (asymmetries of the guide) will be chosen to be complementary in the sense that imperfections in the velocity function in one direction can be compensated for to some extent during movement in the second cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Rayford A. Cockerham, David A. Kern
  • Patent number: 5452875
    Abstract: A bracket assembly for securance to a wall structure. The bracket assembly has a first support element and a second bracket element releasably secured to the support element. The support and bracket elements have interdigitated sets of teeth for clamping the support and bracket elements in a selected one of plural clamped positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Discovery Plastics, Inc.
    Inventor: David A. Kern