Patents by Inventor Jaclyn C. Knapp

Jaclyn C. Knapp 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).

  • Application launcher sizing
    Patent number: 9916059
    Abstract: Application launcher sizing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likely usage context is determined, by a computing device, of a user in interacting with the computing device. An application launcher is dynamically sized within a display area of the user interface by the computing device based on the determined likely usage context of the user. The application launcher is configured for output responsive to an input received from a user and includes a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable to navigate to a user interface corresponding with a respective said application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Megan L. Tedesco, Anshul Rawat, Henri-Charles Machalani, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Jaclyn C. Knapp, Matthew N. Akers, Poorva Singal, Jeff G. Arnold, Brian E. Uphoff, Richard Jennings Duncan, Miron Vranjes, Christopher Doan
  • Direct Access Application Representations
    Publication number: 20160048294
    Abstract: Direct access application representation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a user interface is exposed by an operating system of a computing device. The user interface includes a concurrent display of a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable by a user to launch respective applications, at least one of the plurality of representations includes a concurrent display of a plurality of user-selectable targets for a respective application, and each of the plurality of user-selectable targets is selectable by a user to obtain direct access to a respective one of a plurality of application functionality of the respective application. Responsive to an input indicative of user selection of one of the plurality of user-selectable targets of the at least one representation of the respective application, the direct access is provided to the respective one of the plurality of application functionality of the respective application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nora I. Micheva, Matthew G. Hidinger, Megan L. Tedesco, James David Peter Drage, Sean L. Flynn, Mustafa M. Almaasrawi, John P. Aronson, Jeff G. Arnold, Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo, Jaclyn C. Knapp, Andrea Michelle Simons
  • Application Launcher Sizing
    Publication number: 20160034154
    Abstract: Application launcher sizing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likely usage context is determined, by a computing device, of a user in interacting with the computing device. An application launcher is dynamically sized within a display area of the user interface by the computing device based on the determined likely usage context of the user. The application launcher is configured for output responsive to an input received from a user and includes a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable to navigate to a user interface corresponding with a respective said application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Megan L. Tedesco, Anshul Rawat, Henri-Charles Machalani, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Jaclyn C. Knapp, Matthew N. Akers, Poorva Singal, Jeff G. Arnold, Brian E. Uphoff, Richard Jennings Duncan, Miron Vranjes, Christopher Doan