Patents by Inventor Geraldine G. Wade
Geraldine G. Wade 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).
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Patent number: 8090719Abstract: Computer-storage media, computerized methods and systems for formatting a page layout according to form factors of a display area are provided. Initially, search results are received and dynamically converted into respective block-level elements, where each of the block-level elements is associated with a portion of content from one of the received search results. Form factors are retrieved from a graphical user interface. Typically the form factors are associated with properties of a display area initiated to present the search results. At least one adaptive template is selected according to the retrieved form factors. The portion of content of each of the block-level elements is formatted based on at least one adaptive template. Also, the adaptive template is utilized to establish content panes within the page layout, as directed by the form factors. These content panes are populated with one or more of the block-level elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Geraldine G. Wade, Charles E. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20110010661Abstract: Computer-storage media, computerized methods and systems for formatting a page layout according to form factors of a display area are provided. Initially, search results are received and dynamically converted into respective block-level elements, where each of the block-level elements is associated with a portion of content from one of the received search results. Form factors are retrieved from a graphical user interface. Typically the form factors are associated with properties of a display area initiated to present the search results. At least one adaptive template is selected according to the retrieved form factors. The portion of content of each of the block-level elements is formatted based on at least one adaptive template. Also, the adaptive template is utilized to establish content panes within the page layout, as directed by the form factors. These content panes are populated with one or more of the block-level elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: GERALDINE G. WADE, CHARLES E. JACOBS
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Patent number: 7831579Abstract: Computer-storage media, computerized methods and systems for formatting a page layout according to form factors of a display area are provided. Initially, search results are received and dynamically converted into respective block-level elements, where each of the block-level elements is associated with a portion of content from one of the received search results. Form factors are retrieved from a graphical user interface. Typically the form factors are associated with properties of a display area initiated to present the search results. At least one adaptive template is selected according to the retrieved form factors. The portion of content of each of the block-level elements is formatted based on at least one adaptive template. Also, the adaptive template is utilized to establish content panes within the page layout, as directed by the form factors. These content panes are populated with one or more of the block-level elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Geraldine G. Wade, Charles E. Jacobs
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Patent number: 7697003Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and output resolution when the character outline is scan converted. A character is retrieved to be output. A determination is made that the character belongs to a semantic character classifications, and hinting instructions that are associated with the semantic character classification are accessed. The hinting instructions preserve semantic meaning for the character while altering either stroke presence, stroke location, or both for at least one stroke of at least one feature of the character based on a reference character size and output resolution. If the actual character size and output resolution for the character is within a reference character size and output resolution for the hinting instructions, the hinting instructions are executed.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael J. Duggan, William Hill, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm, Geraldine G. Wade
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Publication number: 20090171920Abstract: Computer-storage media, computerized methods and systems for formatting a page layout according to form factors of a display area are provided. Initially, search results are received and dynamically converted into respective block-level elements, where each of the block-level elements is associated with a portion of content from one of the received search results. Form factors are retrieved from a graphical user interface. Typically the form factors are associated with properties of a display area initiated to present the search results. At least one adaptive template is selected according to the retrieved form factors. The portion of content of each of the block-level elements is formatted based on at least one adaptive template. Also, the adaptive template is utilized to establish content panes within the page layout, as directed by the form factors. These content panes are populated with one or more of the block-level elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: GERALDINE G. WADE, CHARLES E. JACOBS
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Patent number: 7289123Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and output resolution when the character outline is scan converted. A character is retrieved to be output. A determination is made that the character belongs to a semantic character classifications, and hinting instructions that are associated with the semantic character classification are accessed. The hinting instructions preserve semantic meaning for the character while altering either stroke presence, stroke location, or both for at least one stroke of at least one feature of the character based on a reference character size and output resolution. If the actual character size and output resolution for the character is within a reference character size and output resolution for the hinting instructions, the hinting instructions are executed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael J. Duggan, William Hill, Gregory C. Hitchcock, Beat Stamm, Geraldine G. Wade
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Patent number: 7286121Abstract: Mechanisms for rendering an object on a portion of a display that includes pixel sub-components for each pixel. The pixel sub-components are striped along a certain direction (e.g., vertically or horizontally). The computing system determines that the object has spatial frequency dominance a direction which happens to be parallel to the striping direction. The computing system then performs sub-component based sampling assuming that the striping direction is perpendicular to the actual striping direction. Then the object is rendered on the display. This may be performed for each object to be displayed. Counterintuitively, this improves the resolution of the character being displayed as compared to performing pixel sub-component based sampling assuming that the striping direction is the same as the actual striping direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2003Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael J. Duggan, Beat Stamm, Geraldine G. Wade, Greg C. Hitchcock
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Patent number: 6986103Abstract: At least a portion of a plurality of formatting variables associated with an electronic document are modified based in part upon optimized formatting values. A user may specify values for one or more user-modifiable formatting variables. Based on the user data thus specified, at least a portion of the plurality of formatting variables are modified according to corresponding optimized formatting values. The electronic document is then formatted in accordance with the modified formatting variables and provided for display. The user-modifiable variables may comprise a font reference variable and/or a display form factor variable. In this manner, the present invention optimizes readability of electronic documents while still accommodating user preferences for displaying such documents.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John L. Beezer, Michael J. Duggan, Jerry J. Dunietz, William Hill, David M. Silver, Geraldine G. Wade
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Patent number: D523064Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Geraldine G. Wade