Patents by Inventor Gary Lee CALDWELL

Gary Lee CALDWELL 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).

  • Selecting content in ink documents using a hierarchical data structure
    Patent number: 11972097
    Abstract: Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of elements in the ink document that correspond to the current set of identified nodes. According to another illustrative aspect, the technology produces the data structure by modifying an original data structure provided by a text analysis engine. The technology performs this task with the objective of accommodating structured interaction by the user with the ink document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oz Solomon, Erich Søren Finkelstein, Gary Lee Caldwell, Nathan James Fish, Sergey Aleksandrovich Doroshenko
  • Selecting Content in Ink Documents using a Hierarchical Data Structure
    Publication number: 20220404957
    Abstract: Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of elements in the ink document that correspond to the current set of identified nodes. According to another illustrative aspect, the technology produces the data structure by modifying an original data structure provided by a text analysis engine. The technology performs this task with the objective of accommodating structured interaction by the user with the ink document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oz SOLOMON, Erich Søren FINKELSTEIN, Gary Lee CALDWELL, Nathan James FISH, Sergey Aleksandrovich DOROSHENKO
  • Selecting content in ink documents using a hierarchical data structure
    Patent number: 11531454
    Abstract: Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of elements in the ink document that correspond to the current set of identified nodes. According to another illustrative aspect, the technology produces the data structure by modifying an original data structure provided by a text analysis engine. The technology performs this task with the objective of accommodating structured interaction by the user with the ink document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oz Solomon, Erich Søren Finkelstein, Gary Lee Caldwell, Nathan James Fish, Sergey Aleksandrovich Doroshenko
  • Selecting Content in Ink Documents using a Hierarchical Data Structure
    Publication number: 20220187981
    Abstract: Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of elements in the ink document that correspond to the current set of identified nodes. According to another illustrative aspect, the technology produces the data structure by modifying an original data structure provided by a text analysis engine. The technology performs this task with the objective of accommodating structured interaction by the user with the ink document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Oz SOLOMON, Erich Søren FINKELSTEIN, Gary Lee CALDWELL, Nathan James FISH, Sergey Aleksandrovich DOROSHENKO