Patents by Inventor David B. Robins

David B. Robins 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).

  • Fast merge support for legacy documents
    Patent number: 8346768
    Abstract: A method is presented for merging document metadata at a client computer. A document obtained from a server computer is opened by a user at the client computer. If the document does not include paragraph identifiers, a paragraph identifier is assigned to each paragraph in the document. When the document is opened by a second user at a second client computer, metadata for the document is received from the server computer. A determination is made whether to merge the metadata received from the server computer with current metadata for the document. When it is determined that the current metadata and the metadata received from the server computer should be merged, paragraph identifiers are adjusted in the document based on the metadata received from the server computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Bailor, David B. Robins
  • Fast Merge Support for Legacy Documents
    Publication number: 20100281074
    Abstract: A method is presented for merging document metadata at a client computer. A document obtained from a server computer is opened by a user at the client computer. If the document does not include paragraph identifiers, a paragraph identifier is assigned to each paragraph in the document. When the document is opened by a second user at a second client computer, metadata for the document is received from the server computer. A determination is made whether to merge the metadata received from the server computer with current metadata for the document. When it is determined that the current metadata and the metadata received from the server computer should be merged, paragraph identifiers are adjusted in the document based on the metadata received from the server computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Bailor, David B. Robins