Patents by Inventor Gerald P. Shea

Gerald P. Shea 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).

  • Hooking of replacement and augmented API functions
    Patent number: 7401339
    Abstract: Hooking replacement and augmented API functions is disclosed. In one embodiment, an alternative implementation of one or more API functions is hooked into the operating system through utilization of a replacement API table. The functions that have been replaced, augmented, or otherwise modified have entries in the table pointing to their new implementation. The entries for functions that have not been change continue to point to their existing implementation. A bit array is also disclosed to track desired messages, as compared to undesired messages, where each bit of the array corresponds to a type of message. The table can be variably sized, and can support nested and re-entrant calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gerardo Bermudez, Gerald P. Shea, Jeffrey E. Stall
  • System and method for navigating content in an item
    Patent number: 7159188
    Abstract: A system and a method for a user interface which generates a preview display to aid in the navigation of items of content on a computer. A screen displays an item to a user. Upon receipt of a user input representing a proposed navigational action to be performed with respect to the item, a preview display is generated and rendered on the screen display. The preview display includes at least a portion of the display which would result from a selection to perform the navigational action with respect to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Charles W. Stabb, Gerald P. Shea, Joshua Alexander Dersch, Alan L. Marks
  • Hooking of replacement and augmented API functions
    Patent number: 6874149
    Abstract: Hooking replacement and augmented API functions is disclosed. In one embodiment, an alternative implementation of one or more API functions is hooked into the operating system through utilization of a replacement API table. The functions that have been replaced, augmented, or otherwise modified have entries in the table pointing to their new implementation. The entries for functions that have not been change continue to point to their existing implementation. A bit array is also disclosed to track desired messages, as compared to undesired messages, where each bit of the array corresponds to a type of message. The table can be variably sized, and can support nested and re-entrant calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gerardo Bermudez, Gerald P. Shea, Jeffrey E. Stall