Patents by Inventor Eric Hennings

Eric Hennings 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).

  • Publication number: 20070005413
    Abstract: The present application describes an integrated work management and tracking framework that implements a dynamic prioritization process that identifies one or more user tasks that should be given priority by the user. The dynamic prioritization process suggests a small set of tasks or items to the user that the user should focus on and it allows the user to choose the tasks/items that the user determines to be of priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael Pinckney
  • Publication number: 20070006085
    Abstract: The present application describes a work management/tracking framework that allows users to organize work around goals that may utilize several applications. Goals may encompass smaller individual tasks that span more than one application. An action object is used to represent a goal and can have one or more task items associated with it. The task items associated with an action object represent tasks that are included in the events and processes necessary to accomplish the goal. As a user works, the tasks that the user works on are tracked. If the user has requested to maintain the tasks in an action object, the tasks are associated with an action object. The user is assisted in pulling in possible task items that the user may wish to associate with an action object by being provided with a list of selectable task items that may be related to the action object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael Pinckney
  • Publication number: 20060090262
    Abstract: The present invention is a bed loft comprising a pair of end assemblies and at least one support beam for receiving a support beam prong. Each end assembly comprises a first post and a second post. The first post comprises at least one support beam prong for insertion into the support beam, at least one end assembly prong for insertion into an end assembly support beam, and a receiver for holding a foot of a bedpost. The second post comprises at least one end assembly support beam for receiving an end assembly prong and a receiver for holding a foot of a bedpost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Donald Hennings
  • Publication number: 20050273929
    Abstract: A collection of adjustable, easy to assemble and reconfigurable bedstead elements which when used in conjunction with one another may be used to construct a single or multiple bedstead arrangement that can conform to a wide variety of spatial delineations, functional necessities, mattress specifications and individual design preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Donald Hennings
  • Patent number: 6925665
    Abstract: A multiple configuration bed frame system for allowing a single or multiple bed frames to be configured in many different ways to accommodate available space and the creativity of the user includes at least one main frame member, an optional rail member, raised bed leg members, and short leg members that also serve as frame connectors for joining two or more main frame members. A plurality of receivers are coupled to the main frame member and positioned to permit joining of the components of the invention to form the various configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Inventor: Eric Hennings
  • Publication number: 20040215664
    Abstract: Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively displayed in response to a user selecting a text hyperlink anchor or a picture icon hyperlink anchor. Furthermore, the contextual information can include a variety of information about the linked document, including whether it has been modified within a predefined time period, such as the last 24 hours, a comment by the author concerning recent changes, and the size of the document. Preferably, the contextual information is automatically generated by a data promotion engine based on meta-data that is associated with the document and stored on a web site for the document. The contextual information may be either added to the document that corresponds to a display page at the time the document page is saved, or it may be dynamically uploaded to a browser when the display page is rendered by a browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael A. Angiulo, Michael D. Smith
  • Patent number: 6763496
    Abstract: Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively displayed in response to a user selecting a text hyperlink anchor or a picture icon hyperlink anchor. Furthermore, the contextual information can include a variety of information about the linked document, including whether it has been modified within a predefined time period, such as the last 24 hours, a comment by the author concerning recent changes, and the size of the document. Preferably, the contextual information is automatically generated by a data promotion engine based on meta-data that is associated with the document and stored on a web site for the document. The contextual information may be either added to the document that corresponds to a display page at the time the document page is saved, or it may be dynamically uploaded to a browser when the display page is rendered by a browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael A. Angiulo, Michael D. Smith
  • Publication number: 20040024848
    Abstract: The integrity of uniform resource locator (URL) references within web sites are maintained when changes occur in the locations where resources referenced by URLs are stored. A Referential Preservation Engine (RPE) maintains a database in which the location of web site documents and reference information are stored and updates various URL hyperlink references contained in the web pages on the site so that users can locate documents that have been moved to new storage locations. The RPE can also update links to external web sites by communicating with an RPE running on each external site. The RPE on the external site keeps track of the movement of linked documents on the sites and passes information pertaining to the new location of the linked documents to the local site, whereupon the links on the local web site pages are updated to reflect the new storage locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Smith, Eric Hennings, Christine Walpole McKee
  • Patent number: 6578078
    Abstract: The integrity of uniform resource locator (URL) references within web sites are maintained when changes occur in the locations where resources referenced by URLs are stored. A Referential Preservation Engine (RPE) maintains a database in which the location of web site documents and reference information are stored and updates various URL hyperlink references contained in the web pages on the site so that users can locate documents that have been moved to new storage locations. The RPE can also update links to external web sites by communicating with an RPE running on each external site. The RPE on the external site keeps track of the movement of linked documents on the sites and passes information pertaining to the new location of the linked documents to the local site, whereupon the links on the local web site pages are updated to reflect the new storage locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Smith, Eric Hennings, Christine Walpole McKee