Patents by Inventor Gregory Allen Keyser

Gregory Allen Keyser 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).

  • Method and system for automatically determining differences in a user interface throughout a development cycle
    Patent number: 7379600
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically determining the differences in a mobile device user interface throughout a development cycle. A test automation is run to exercise a target device's user interface. While the user interface is exercised, an extension is activated that takes snapshots of the user interface output at selected intervals of an automation execution. The snapshots are stored and uploaded to a server where snapshots of different automation executions are then compared on a pixel-by-pixel basis. The differences between snapshots are output in a visual format where the pixels that are different between snapshots are highlighted. The visual format of the differences between snapshots provides the user with a method to readily determine if errors exist in the user interface of the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Derks, Andrew Seres, Jidesh Veeramachaneni, Gregory Allen Keyser