Patents by Inventor Derek Westcott

Derek Westcott 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).

  • Defining the visual appearance of user-interface controls
    Publication number: 20060010374
    Abstract: Systems and methods for defining at least one visual-display characteristic of at least one user-interface control are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the invention, a dialog template specifies at least one style selector for the at least one user-interface control. A transformation module extracts the at least one style selector from the dialog template. A style sheet defines at least one visual-display-characteristic value that is applicable to the at least one user-interface control and that is associated with the at least one style selector. A style sheet-parsing engine uses the at least one style selector to retrieve the at least one visual-display-characteristic value from the style sheet. And a user-interface-control-drawing module draws the at least one user-interface control in accordance with the at least one visual-display-characteristic value retrieved by the style sheet-parsing engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Corrington, Song Zou, Kathryn Rasmussen, Thomas Layson, Gamage Viriththamulla, Derek Westcott, Diane Shambaugh, Jalayne Boni, Seung Yang, Paul Cutsinger, Robert Rugge, Douglas Koenig, Nathan Bower, Mun Leong