Patents by Inventor Jason Anthony Grieves
Jason Anthony Grieves 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: 11398164Abstract: Described herein is a screen reader system for providing contextually relevant information for ambiguous link(s). Input is received from a user requesting information about a particular link of a web page. In response to the received user input, a request for contextually relevant information regarding the particular link (e.g., page identifier) is provided to a search engine. The request can include a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the particular link. Contextually relevant information regarding the particular link is received from the search engine. The received contextually relevant information is provided (e.g., displayed and/or read) to the user in response to the received request for information.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mariah Sigourney Moon, Carolina Hernandez, Sichen Lu, Lukasz Zygmunt Makar, Ravi Gupta, Jason Anthony Grieves, Elbio Renato Torres Abib
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Patent number: 10938952Abstract: Described herein is a screen reader providing a summary with popular link(s). The screen reader can provide a request for popular link information regarding a particular web resource to a search engine. The request can include a URL associated with the particular web resource. The request can be provided in response to a user request for a summary and/or the request can be provided based upon a user configurable setting (e.g., a quantity of popular links to be displayed). The screen reader can receive popular link information regarding the particular web resource from the search engine. The screen reader can then provide a summary comprising at least some of the received popular link information to the user. In response to selection of a particular popular link, the screen reader can redirect the browser to display a web resource associated with the particular popular link.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mariah Sigourney Moon, Sichen Lu, Vanguri Madhuri, Lukasz Zygmunt Makar, Ravi Gupta, Jason Anthony Grieves, Carolina Hernandez, Elbio Renato Torres Abib, Jane Jayoung Yoon
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Publication number: 20200396314Abstract: Described herein is a screen reader providing a summary with popular link(s). The screen reader can provide a request for popular link information regarding a particular web resource to a search engine. The request can include a URL associated with the particular web resource. The request can be provided in response to a user request for a summary and/or the request can be provided based upon a user configurable setting (e.g., a quantity of popular links to be displayed). The screen reader can receive popular link information regarding the particular web resource from the search engine. The screen reader can then provide a summary comprising at least some of the received popular link information to the user. In response to selection of a particular popular link, the screen reader can redirect the browser to display a web resource associated with the particular popular link.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mariah Sigourney MOON, Sichen LU, Vanguri MADHURI, Lukasz Zygmunt MAKAR, Ravi GUPTA, Jason Anthony GRIEVES, Carolina HERNANDEZ, Elbio Renato Torres ABIB, Jane Jayoung YOON
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Publication number: 20200372830Abstract: Described herein is a screen reader system for providing contextually relevant information for ambiguous link(s). Input is received from a user requesting information about a particular link of a web page. In response to the received user input, a request for contextually relevant information regarding the particular link (e.g., page identifier) is provided to a search engine. The request can include a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the particular link. Contextually relevant information regarding the particular link is received from the search engine. The received contextually relevant information is provided (e.g., displayed and/or read) to the user in response to the received request for information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mariah Sigourney MOON, Carolina HERNANDEZ, Sichen LU, Lukasz Zygmunt MAKAR, Ravi GUPTA, Jason Anthony GRIEVES, Elbio Renato Torres ABIB
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Publication number: 20200167057Abstract: Described herein is a system for automatically generating a cursor bitmap file for a particular cursor in order to assist computer user(s) with low vision to navigate computer display(s). User input to modify a particular cursor (e.g., color, and/or size) to be displayed on a computer display can be received. A base scalable vector graphic (SVG) file representation associated with the particular cursor can be modified in accordance with the user input. The modified base SVG file representation can be converted to a bitmap file representation of the modified base SVG file representation. The bitmap file representation of the modified base SVG file representation can be stored for use in displaying the particular cursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jason Anthony GRIEVES, Zhengyang CONG, David Alan FERGUSON, Arthur LATACHE PIMENTEL GESTEIRA COSTA
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Patent number: 10339833Abstract: A screen reader for a computing device with a touch sensitive user interface. The screen reader operates in an investigatory mode in which touch inputs detected through the user interface are interpreted as inputs designating content on the display to verbally render. Each selection may be interpreted as designating a unit of content at the designated location. The size of the unit may be determined based on a direction of motion of pointing device arriving at the location on the display where the unit of content is designated. In this way, a user may, through simple and intuitively learned commands, designate content in units of different sizes such as characters, words, lines or paragraphs, when the content is text, and/or individual user interface elements when the displayed content being selected includes graphical elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Douglas R. Kirschner, Nicholas H. Wrem, Jason Anthony Grieves, Amish Patel
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Publication number: 20180107943Abstract: A wearable device includes one or more biometric sensors configured to determine biometric data of a wearer of the wearable device and a stress assessment tool. The stress assessment tool is configured to determine a periodic stress score, via a machine-learning model, based at least on the biometric data, visually present, via a display associated with the wearable device, a graphical user interface (GUI) including the periodic stress score, receive wearer feedback evaluating the accuracy of the periodic stress score, adjust the machine-learning model based on the wearer feedback, determine a reassessed periodic stress score, via the machine-learning model, and visually present, via the display, the reassessed periodic stress score in the GUI.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ryen William White, Gerrit Hofmeester, William Voss, Jason Anthony Grieves, Girish Sthanu Nathan
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Publication number: 20170323585Abstract: A screen reader for a computing device with a touch sensitive user interface. The screen reader operates in an investigatory mode in which touch inputs detected through the user interface are interpreted as inputs designating content on the display to verbally render. Each selection may be interpreted as designating a unit of content at the designated location. The size of the unit may be determined based on a direction of motion of pointing device arriving at the location on the display where the unit of content is designated. In this way, a user may, through simple and intuitively learned commands, designate content in units of different sizes such as characters, words, lines or paragraphs, when the content is text, and/or individual user interface elements when the displayed content being selected includes graphical elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Douglas R. KIRSCHNER, Nicholas H. WREM, Jason Anthony GRIEVES, Amish PATEL
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Publication number: 20160371240Abstract: A display system comprises a display and a controller operatively coupled to the display. The controller is configured to receive text, parse the text to isolate a segment of the text, compute a time interval for display of the segment, present the segment on the display during the computed time interval, remove the segment from the display following the computed time interval, and repeat the parsing computing, presenting, and removing, for subsequent segments of the text.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Robert Matthew McKaughan, Jason Anthony Grieves, Kevin Larson, Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Martin Bennett
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Patent number: 8917275Abstract: A developer tool is used to programmatically calculate the contrast between the text and background in a user interface. A luminosity ratio is automatically calculated by the tool by capturing an image of a user interface, archiving user interface elements that do not contain text, performing optical character recognition on the remaining user interface elements to find pixels on the text part of the user interface element and pixels on the background part of the user interface element, and finally calculating the luminosity ratio. Results including errors, warnings and luminosity ratio for one or more hotspots in the image can be returned. Results can be used to identify user interface elements that comply or fail to comply with visibility guidelines for contrast between user interface text and background.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Matthew Karr, Katherine Ann Corner
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Patent number: 8725743Abstract: A commanding interface can provide an efficient computer interface for users of assistive technology by focusing on the tasks that an application can perform, rather than on the interface the application exposes. The commanding interface can provide a search mechanism that searches for and presents functions or functionality in response and dynamically updates results as the search query is entered. Additionally, the commanding interface can prioritize search results based on contextual data, including prior search terms, prior actions, and the context of the user's interaction with the application program. The commanding interface can enable the user to filter the functions and functionality presented through the commanding interface according to types of user-performed activities for which such functions would be utilized, patterns, or heuristically determined associations.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Nicholas Wrem, Paul James Reid
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Patent number: 8694967Abstract: User interface elements are identified and cataloged into a user interface inventory database keyed on a global user interface element identifier. Information is collected for user interface elements activated in an executing application or applications. Scenario information is collected and is used to update the user interface inventory database. Scenario information includes information concerning user interface element usage, state changes, etc. in time. The described information can be collected over a period of time and from a number of different computer systems. The information can be analyzed to determine and quantify usage and testing of user interface elements. The analyzed information can be used to determine how thoroughly a user interface element has been tested, how often the user interface element works as expected, most commonly used user interface elements and other information. The collected information can be used to track, quantify and identify ownership of user interface elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Brett D. Humphrey, Donald Gary Funk, Vidhya Sriram, Glenn Edgar Murphy, III, Paul J. Reid, Dmitri Klementiev
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Publication number: 20130063494Abstract: A screen reader for a computing device with a touch sensitive user interface. The screen reader operates in an investigatory mode in which touch inputs detected through the user interface are interpreted as inputs designating content on the display to verbally render. Each selection may be interpreted as designating a unit of content at the designated location. The size of the unit may be determined based on a direction of motion of pointing device arriving at the location on the display where the unit of content is designated. In this way, a user may, through simple and intuitively learned commands, designate content in units of different sizes such as characters, words, lines or paragraphs, when the content is text, and/or individual user interface elements when the displayed content being selected includes graphical elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas R. Kirschner, Nicholas H. Wrem, Jason Anthony Grieves, Amish Patel
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Publication number: 20120259868Abstract: A commanding interface can provide an efficient computer interface for users of assistive technology by focusing on the tasks that an application can perform, rather than on the interface the application exposes. The commanding interface can provide a search mechanism that searches for and presents functions or functionality in response and dynamically updates results as the search query is entered. Additionally, the commanding interface can prioritize search results based on contextual data, including prior search terms, prior actions, and the context of the user's interaction with the application program. The commanding interface can enable the user to filter the functions and functionality presented through the commanding interface according to types of user-performed activities for which such functions would be utilized, patterns, or heuristically determined associations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Nicholas Wrem, Paul James Reid
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Publication number: 20110304641Abstract: A developer tool is used to programmatically calculate the contrast between the text and background in a user interface. A luminosity ratio is automatically calculated by the tool by capturing an image of a user interface, archiving user interface elements that do not contain text, performing optical character recognition on the remaining user interface elements to find pixels on the text part of the user interface element and pixels on the background part of the user interface element, and finally calculating the luminosity ratio. Results including errors, warnings and luminosity ratio for one or more hotspots in the image can be returned. Results can be used to identify user interface elements that comply or fail to comply with visibility guidelines for contrast between user interface text and background.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Matthew Karr, Katherine Ann Corner
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Publication number: 20110307865Abstract: User interface elements are identified and cataloged into a user interface inventory database keyed on a global user interface element identifier. Information is collected for user interface elements activated in an executing application or applications. Scenario information is collected and is used to update the user interface inventory database. Scenario information includes information concerning user interface element usage, state changes, etc. in time. The described information can be collected over a period of time and from a number of different computer systems. The information can be analyzed to determine and quantify usage and testing of user interface elements. The analyzed information can be used to determine how thoroughly a user interface element has been tested, how often the user interface element works as expected, most commonly used user interface elements and other information. The collected information can be used to track, quantify and identify ownership of user interface elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Anthony Grieves, Brett D. Humphrey, Donald Gary Funk, Vidhya Sriram, Glenn Edgar Murphy, III, Paul J. Reid, Dmitri Klementiev