Patents by Inventor Edward B. Cutrell
Edward B. Cutrell 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: 10162511Abstract: Systems and/or methods are provided that facilitates revealing assistance information associated with a user interface. An interface can obtain input information related to interactions between the interface and a user. In addition, the interface can output assistance information in situ with the user interface. Further, a decision component that determines the in situ assistance information output by the interface based at least in part on the obtained input information.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Edward B. Cutrell, Raman K. Sarin, Patrick M. Baudisch, Darryl Yust
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Publication number: 20180068578Abstract: An example system for presenting educational activities includes a computer processor and computer memory including instructions that cause the computer processor to receive a plurality of educational activities. The instructions also cause the processor to determine a learning level for a target user. The instructions further cause the processor to filter the plurality of educational activities for the target user based on the detected learning level for the target user. The instructions also further cause the processor to rank the filtered plurality of educational activities for the target user based on a social factor. The instructions also cause the processor to present the ranked educational activities to the target user in an extended social media feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Meredith Morris, Nathalie Henry Riche, Edward B. Cutrell, Andrew C. Cross, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Galen McQuillen, Kiley Sobel, Geza Kovacs
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Publication number: 20150212712Abstract: The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content—the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Daniel C. Robbins, Raman K. Sarin, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward B. Cutrell
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Patent number: 8907886Abstract: The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content—the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Daniel C. Robbins, Raman K. Sarin, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward B. Cutrell
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Publication number: 20140040928Abstract: A system for acquiring feedback from an audience, such as a group of participants in an educational class or a business meeting. The system includes a camera that is controlled to capture an image of the group of participants. Each participant may be provided with a set of encoded objects that both reflect responses that can be selected by the participant and the identity of the participant. These objects may be encoded with a pattern that facilitates computerized recognition in the image of the response selected by the participant and participant identifier. Based on information acquired from the image, the system can automatically, or with user input, analyze responses from the group of participants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: William Frederick Thies, Andrew C. Cross, Edward B. Cutrell
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Publication number: 20120240043Abstract: Systems and/or methods are provided that facilitates revealing assistance information associated with a user interface. An interface can obtain input information related to interactions between the interface and a user. In addition, the interface can output assistance information in situ with the user interface. Further, a decision component that determines the in situ assistance information output by the interface based at least in part on the obtained input information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Edward B. Cutrell, Raman K. Sarin, Patrick M. Baudisch, Darryl Yust
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Patent number: 8196042Abstract: Systems and/or methods are provided that facilitates revealing assistance information associated with a user interface. An interface can obtain input information related to interactions between the interface and a user. In addition, the interface can output assistance information in situ with the user interface. Further, a decision component that determines the in situ assistance information output by the interface based at least in part on the obtained input information.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Edward B. Cutrell, Raman K. Sarin, Patrick M. Baudisch, Darryl Yust
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Patent number: 7730430Abstract: A method for enhancing a mouse cursor is presented. During the mouse cursor update display cycle, a test on the current mouse speed is made. If the mouse cursor's speed exceeds a predetermined threshold, an enhanced mouse cursor is generated and displayed on the computer screen. According to one embodiment, an enhanced mouse cursor is generated by increasing the size of a standard mouse cursor in proportion to the speed of the mouse cursor. According to an alternative embodiment, an enhanced mouse cursor is generated by interpolating the mouse cursor's path and adding a motion-blur effect along the interpolated path. According to yet another embodiment, an enhanced mouse cursor is generated by interpolating the mouse cursor's path and a plurality of mouse cursor images are displayed along the interpolated path.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick M. Baudisch, George G. Robertson, Edward B. Cutrell
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Patent number: 7703040Abstract: A search engine user interface that reduces the need for explicit search rules; dynamically responds as user input is entered to give immediate feedback to a user; is not limited to searching data residing in a single store; and may be used with a plurality of search engines, is provided. The search engine user interface provides search functions for a plurality of types of file metadata and types of file content. The search engine user interface provides an active query box, query editing, word-wheeling, and query narrowing and broadening. The user interface provides accordion behavior for visual elements of the user interface, integrated custom tagging, multiple independent search parameters, and filtering and integrated custom tagging in a common file dialog box.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Edward B. Cutrell, Daniel C. Robbins, Raman K. Sarin, Susan T. Dumais
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Patent number: 7693842Abstract: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates in situ search for active note taking. The system and method includes receiving gestures from a stylus and a tablet associated with the system. Upon recognizing the gesture as belonging to a set of known and recognized gestures, the system creates an embeddable object, initiates a search with terms indicated by the gesture, associates the search results with the created object and inserts the object in close proximity with the terms that instigated the search.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Raman K. Sarin, Patrick M. Baudisch, Edward B. Cutrell, Michael Shilman, Desney S. Tan
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Patent number: 7692629Abstract: Techniques and technologies are provided which can allow for touch input with a touch screen device. In response to an attempt to select a target displayed on a screen, a callout can be rendered in a non-occluded area of the screen. The callout includes a representation of the area of the screen that is occluded by a selection entity when the attempt to select the target is made.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick Baudisch, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Raman Sarin, Edward B. Cutrell, Andrew D. Wilson, Daniel Vogel
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Publication number: 20090187824Abstract: Systems and/or methods are provided that facilitates revealing assistance information associated with a user interface. An interface can obtain input information related to interactions between the interface and a user. In addition, the interface can output assistance information in situ with the user interface. Further, a decision component that determines the in situ assistance information output by the interface based at least in part on the obtained input information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Edward B. Cutrell, Raman K. Sarin, Patrick M. Baudisch, Darryl Yust
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Patent number: 7557774Abstract: A virtual space for displaying the pointer in a visually correct manner on a multi-monitor computer system is presented. The virtual space is kept separate from the internal display surface of the multi-monitor computer system upon which information is written to be displayed on the monitors. The virtual space is established such that the virtual display areas of the virtual space reflect the visual arrangement of the monitors. The virtual space captures all pointer movements, such as by a mouse or other input device, and moves the pointer within the virtual space. On a pointer update frame, the pointer is mapped from the virtual space to the internal display space such that the pointer may be displayed on the monitors.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick M. Baudisch, Edward B. Cutrell, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Robert W. Gruen
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Publication number: 20090128483Abstract: The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content—the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel C. Robbins, Raman K. Sarin, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward B. Cutrell
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Publication number: 20080250012Abstract: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates in situ search for active note taking. The system and method includes receiving gestures from a stylus and a tablet associated with the system. Upon recognizing the gesture as belonging to a set of known and recognized gestures, the system creates an embeddable object, initiates a search with terms indicated by the gesture, associates the search results with the created object and inserts the object in close proximity with the terms that instigated the search.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Raman K. Sarin, Patrick M. Baudisch, Edward B. Cutrell, Michael Shilman, Desney S. Tan
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Publication number: 20080136785Abstract: Techniques and technologies are provided which can allow for touch input with a touch screen device. In response to an attempt to select a target displayed on a screen, a callout can be rendered in a non-occluded area of the screen. The callout includes a representation of the area of the screen that is occluded by a selection entity when the attempt to select the target is made.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick Baudisch, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Raman Sarin, Edward B. Cutrell, Andrew D. Wilson, Daniel Vogel
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Patent number: 7327349Abstract: The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content—the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Daniel C. Robbins, Raman K. Sarin, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward B. Cutrell
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Patent number: 7317449Abstract: The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices. Such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. The navigation can be key-based such that one or more keys of a keypad can be employed to browse through, zoom in, and/or zoom out of content. In one aspect, the content can be segmented into any number of sub-sectors or segments such that each segment can correspond to a particular number key, whereby particular portions of content can be viewed in greater or less detail by pressing or tapping on the corresponding number key. Furthermore, when viewing a first portion of content, nearby content can be glanced at by pressing and holding the respective key. When the key is released, the view returns to the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Daniel C. Robbins, Raman K. Sarin, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward B. Cutrell
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Patent number: 7225187Abstract: Most information retrieval systems start with a user's explicit query. Systems and methods are provided that perform implicit or background queries to one or more information sources based on the ongoing activities of users. The methods provide users with the results of such automated contextualized searches in an unobtrusive manner. In one aspect, implicit queries are run when users are reading, working on or composing an application. Queries can be automatically generated by analyzing an application, and results can be presented in a variety of peripheral display configurations, including a small pane adjacent to a current window to provide peripheral awareness of related information that is automatically determined from existing user context and/or related content from the application.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Susan T. Dumais, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward B. Cutrell, Raman K. Sarin
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Patent number: 7173637Abstract: A method and system for performing distance-based accelerated scrolling are described. The system accelerates scrolling based on the distance that a user has already scrolled, and continues to scroll in a quick manner. Using a conventional wheelmouse, consecutive quick flicks of the wheel may be used as an approximation of the distance that the user has scrolled, based on the effort the user expends flicking the wheel. The system inhibits acceleration when the user slows down or reverses direction in order to return fine scrolling capabilities to the user to locate an exact position in a data file.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2002Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth Paul Hinckley, Edward B. Cutrell