Patents by Inventor Gregory Hullender
Gregory Hullender 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: 7802266Abstract: A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 29, optical disk 31, ROM 24, or RAM 25, including an operating system 35, one or more application programs 36, other program modules 37, and program data 38. The hard disk, magnetic disk, optical disk, ROM, RAM, and the like can be termed computer readable-storage media. A user may enter commands and information into the personal computer 20 through input devices such as a keyboard 40 and pointing device 42. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, touch sensitive pad, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 21 through a serial port interface 46 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port, or a universal serial bus (USB). In addition, input to the system may be provided by a microphone to receive audio input.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2004Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sharad Mathur, Gregory Hullender, Mark Miller, Bruce Johnson, Michael Ginsberg
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Patent number: 7715630Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Mircosoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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Patent number: 7546294Abstract: A system and method for optimizing the performance of a document ranker in a search engine. Weights are assigned to the document features considered by the document ranker. The weights are optimized to produce the highest possible relative ranking for a group of test documents in response to an associated group of search queries.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Timo Burkard
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Patent number: 7536656Abstract: A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is provided. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. According to certain aspects, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-based computing platform and have the edits and affects the text or ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2004Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Alexander Gounares
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Patent number: 7472067Abstract: A set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for a resource-limited environment are disclosed. The APIs provide a mechanism for a computer application to interface with various components and modules of an operating system for a resource-limited environment. The APIs further provide a mechanism to interface with input/output devices commonly found in embedded systems running in a resource-limited environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sharad Mathur, Gregory Hullender, Mark Miller, Bruce Johnson, Michael Ginsberg
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Patent number: 7305630Abstract: A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described embodiments, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-based computing platform and have the edits affect the text or ink.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Alexander Gounares
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Patent number: 7167585Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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Patent number: 7158675Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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Publication number: 20060224577Abstract: A system and method for optimizing the performance of a document ranker in a search engine. Weights are assigned to the document features considered by the document ranker. The weights are optimized to produce the highest possible relative ranking for a group of test documents in response to an associated group of search queries.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2005Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Timo Burkard
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Publication number: 20060093218Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj Biswas, Robert Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen Fisher, Arin Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette Krantz, Todd Torset, Jerome Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz Somji
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Publication number: 20060093219Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj Biswas, Robert Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen Fisher, Arin Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette Krantz, Todd Torset, Jerome Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz Somji
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Publication number: 20060072825Abstract: An improved method and mechanism for recognizing chirographs (handwritten characters) input into a computer system. A primary recognizer is provided for converting chirographs to code points, and secondary recognizers such as binary CART trees are developed and trained to differentiate chirographs which produce certain code points at the primary recognizer. Each such secondary recognizer is associated with each selected code point. When a chirograph is received, the chirograph is provided to the primary recognizer whereby a code point corresponding thereto is received. If the code point corresponds to one of the secondary recognizers, the chirograph is passed to the secondary recognizer, and a code point is returned from the secondary recognizer. If not, the code point provided by the primary recognizer is returned.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, John Bennett, Patrick Haluptzok
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Patent number: 7010165Abstract: An electronic ink object is preprocessed for improving handwriting recognition results. An electronic ink object, possibly having multiple lines of non-horizontal ink, is preprocessed by segmenting or separating the electronic ink object into one or more lines, computing a writing angle of each line, and rotating each line so that it is horizontal.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2002Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Ahmad Abdulkader
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Publication number: 20060034516Abstract: An electronic ink object is preprocessed for improving handwriting recognition results. An electronic ink object, possibly having multiple lines of non-horizontal ink, is preprocessed by segmenting or separating the electronic ink object into one or more lines, computing a writing angle of each line, and rotating each line so that it is horizontal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Ahmad Abdulkader
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Publication number: 20060004717Abstract: Systems and methods for dispersing search engine results by category. A search engine application queries a searchable index of document data associated with a plurality of electronic documents in response to a search request to identify one or more electronic documents having document data matching data included in the search request. The search engine application disperses identified electronic documents according to category data included in the document data for display to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2004Publication date: January 5, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bama Ramarathnam, Gregory Hullender, Darren Shakib, Nicole Hamilton
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Publication number: 20050229117Abstract: A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described embodiments, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-based computing platform and have the edits affect the text or ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Alexander Gounares
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Patent number: 6938222Abstract: A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described embodiments, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-based computing platform and have the edits affect the text or ink.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Alexander Gounares
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Publication number: 20050129313Abstract: In computerized recognition having multiple experts, a method and system is described that obtains an optimum value for an expert tuning parameter in a single pass over sample tuning data. Each tuning sample is applied to two experts, resulting in scores from which ranges of parameters that correct incorrect recognition errors without changing correct results for that sample are determined. To determine the range data for a given sample, the experts return scores for each prototype in a database, the scores separated into matching and non-matching scores. The matching and non-matching scores from each expert are compared, providing upper and lower bounds defining ranges. Maxima and minima histograms track upper and lower bound range data, respectively. An analysis of the histograms based on the full set of tuning samples provides the optimum value. For tuning multiple parameters, each parameter may be optimized by this method in isolation, and then iterated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2005Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Gregory Hullender
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Publication number: 20050111736Abstract: A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is provided. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. According to certain aspects, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-based computing platform and have the edits and affects the text or ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2004Publication date: May 26, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Hullender, Alexander Gounares
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Publication number: 20050105945Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Gregory Hullender