Patents by Inventor Erik Daniel Anderson

Erik Daniel Anderson 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).

  • Patent number: 8751924
    Abstract: Presentation of accessible content is in accordance with a grid established by rules independent of the content. Different rules establish different grids utilizable with the same content, thereby enabling proper formatting across a wide range of devices and displays. The rules provide for fixed size and auto sized column widths and row heights. Additionally, the rules provide for column widths and row heights size based on fractional weighting of the remaining space after the fixed size and auto sized grid members are accounted for. The grid establishes a coordinate system onto which content is “hung” by aligning an aspect of the content with a coordinate point. Content is hung by reference to its beginning, its end, its center point, or, alternatively, content can be specified to be stretched to fit the width of the column and the height of the row with which it is associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kathy Carper, Phil Cupp, Erik Daniel Anderson, Markus Mielke, Alex Mogilevsky, Rossen Atanassov, Eugene Veselov
  • Publication number: 20130044123
    Abstract: Techniques involving dynamic colorization of graphical user interfaces. One representative technique includes enabling a user to specify colors in which user interface elements will be colored in an application. An application colorization service is initiated in response to the user specification of the colors, which is used at least to obtain the colors specified by the user, and to create bitmap images of the application's user interface elements using the user-specified colors. A bitmap image output location is made accessible to the application to enable the application to retrieve the created bitmap images, and present the application using the application user interface elements having the user-specified colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harshit Shah, Erik Daniel Anderson, Veljko Miljanic, Fei Xiong, Paul Stephen Gildea, Kevin Welton, Markus Mielke, Sebastian Poulose
  • Publication number: 20120278696
    Abstract: Presentation of accessible content is in accordance with a grid established by rules independent of the content. Different rules establish different grids utilizable with the same content, thereby enabling proper formatting across a wide range of devices and displays. The rules provide for fixed size and auto sized column widths and row heights. Additionally, the rules provide for column widths and row heights size based on fractional weighting of the remaining space after the fixed size and auto sized grid members are accounted for. The grid establishes a coordinate system onto which content is “hung” by aligning an aspect of the content with a coordinate point. Content is hung by reference to its beginning, its end, its center point, or, alternatively, content can be specified to be stretched to fit the width of the column and the height of the row with which it is associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kathy Carper, Phil Cupp, Erik Daniel Anderson, Markus Mielke, Alex Mogilevsky, Rossen Atanassov, Eugene Veselov