Patents by Inventor Jan H. Karachale

Jan H. Karachale 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).

  • FEATURE DISCOVERY LAYER
    Publication number: 20240295942
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operating system (OS) discovery mode that identifies and provides access to OS and/or third-party provided features within an applicable region of a desktop. In some configurations, once the discovery mode is activated, the content displayed by the applicable region is analyzed to identify content usable by OS and/or third-party provided features. Visual cues are rendered in the applicable region near the identified content, highlighting the availability of the OS and/or third-party provided features. Users may interact with the visual cues to manipulate the underlying content or to invoke the OS and/or third-party provided features. OS and/or third-party provided features may modify content displayed by an application, launch an inline micro-experience, crop or export images, etc. While in the discovery mode, visual cues are highlighted as a discovery mouse cursor moves around the desktop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Henry ALPHIN, III, Jan-Kristian MARKIEWICZ, Jan H. KARACHALE, Benjamin J. SCHOEPKE, Ryan Brennen CUPPERNULL, William Scott STAUBER, Aury Fuchsia DELMAR, Yashraj M. BORSE, Albert Peter YIH, Jeffrey Matthew SMITH, Michael Pe VON HIPPEL, Robert Armen MIKHAYELYAN, Eric Norman BADGER, Ryan Lee SOLORZANO, Nishitha BURMAN, Juan Sebastian SEPULVEDA VARON, Jerome HEALY
  • Task switching on mobile devices
    Patent number: 10631246
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a task switching technology on a computing device such as a Smartphone. An application is comprised of one or more tasks. When a user requests that another task be executed, information about the previously executing task (e.g., including a screenshot) is preserved to a stack. If the user invokes a task switcher program, the user is presented with a view of the stack, e.g., containing the screenshots (and representative text) of the tasks that previously executed. The user may navigate among those presented task representations to arbitrarily select any one, with the selected task resumed upon selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Jiang, Rhoniel Villano Manlapaz, Megan Galbraith Donahue, Amy Elizabeth Alberts, Jan H. Karachale, Ashwini Varma, Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu, Alan Michael Bush
  • Task Switching on Mobile Devices
    Publication number: 20120210266
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a task switching technology on a computing device such as a Smartphone. An application is comprised of one or more tasks. When a user requests that another task be executed, information about the previously executing task (e.g., including a screenshot) is preserved to a stack. If the user invokes a task switcher program, the user is presented with a view of the stack, e.g., containing the screenshots (and representative text) of the tasks that previously executed. The user may navigate among those presented task representations to arbitrarily select any one, with the selected task resumed upon selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rachel Jiang, Rhoniel Villano Manlapaz, Megan Galbraith Donahue, Amy Elizabeth Alberts, Jan H. Karachale, Ashwini Varma, Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu, Alan Michael Bush