Patents by Inventor Edward W. Yip

Edward W. Yip 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).

  • Workgroup application with contextual clues
    Patent number: 8099458
    Abstract: A workgroup application with contextual clues. The workgroup application allows any one of multiple participants to provide input, such as commands to edit a document or speech. The effects of the input are presented to other participants in a workgroup session in conjunction with a participant indicator. As one example, each participant may control a cursor that is displayed on the display screens of workstations in a network hosting a workgroup application. Each cursor may be displayed in conjunction with a participant icon that follows the cursor on the display screens. Contextual clues may also be provided by modulating visual properties of the participant icons in response to activity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: E. Russell Burtner, IV, Thomas Vaughan Gruver, Edward W. Yip