Patents by Inventor James Lee Francis

James Lee Francis 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).

  • Methods and systems for objects supporting structured language persistent state
    Patent number: 7543226
    Abstract: A programming object can comprise an executable method for loading a state of the object and an executable method for saving the object's state. The programming object can be an instance of a programmer-defined class. The executable method of the object for loading the state of the object can load the object's state as markup language text, and the executable method of the object for saving the object's state can save the object's state as markup language text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Lee Francis, Frank Mantek, Andrew J. Layman, Robert A. Little, Darren A. Apfel
  • Methods and systems for objects supporting structured language persistent state
    Patent number: 6799301
    Abstract: A converter converts between structured language elements and objects embeddable in the native format of a document editor. A data structure representing the embeddable object is created without instantiating an instance of the object and includes the associated structured language element. Subsequently, the structured language element is used to instantiate an object and set its properties. Any portion of the structured language element not recognized during the conversion process is retained by the embeddable object. If conversion back to a structured language element is subsequently required, the conversion process is facilitated by the presence of the original structured language element within the embeddable object as well as the retained portion of the structured language element not recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Lee Francis, Frank Mantek, Andrew Layman, Robert A. Little, Darren Alexander Apfel
  • Method and system for converting between structured language elements and objects embeddable in a document
    Patent number: 6182092
    Abstract: A converter converts between structured language elements and objects embeddable in the native format of a document editor. A data structure representing the embeddable object is created without instantiating an instance of the object and includes the associated structured language element. Subsequently, the structured language element is used to instantiate an object and set its properties. Any portion of the structured language element not recognized during the conversion process is retained by the embeddable object. If conversion back to a structured language element is subsequently required, the conversion process is facilitated by the presence of the original structured language element within the embeddable object as well as the retained portion of the structured language element not recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Lee Francis, Frank Mantek, Andrew Layman, Robert A. Little, Darren Alexander Apfel