Patents by Inventor Leo Tian YUE
Leo Tian YUE 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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Publication number: 20240004524Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling window arrangements for tabbed user interface elements. An example method includes displaying a plurality of application windows including at least one application window for a web browser application having multiple open tabs, the multiple open tabs including at least one active tab and multiple inactive tabs, receiving an input to invoke a snap assist mode; in response to the input, display a snap assist user interface to reconfigure the display of one or more the plurality of the application windows, the snap assist user interface including tab representations and an application-window representation. In response to receiving a selection of a tab representation, a web browser application window is displayed with the corresponding tab as the active tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leo Tian Yue, Kenneth Martin Tubbs, JR., Stacy Diane Carson, Peter Josef Kreiseder, Bret Paul Anderson, Sailesh Dahal, Neil Agarwal, Gregory Thomas Mattox, JR.
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Patent number: 11755200Abstract: Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Lee Dicks Clark, Richard Fang, Alisha Dilip Gala, Merryjane M. Fosdick, Aaron R. Teetor, Michael Neil Loholt, Leo Tian Yue, Albert Peter Yih, Joseph Spencer King, Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz, Hanna Mclaughlin
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Publication number: 20230153133Abstract: A method and system for providing access to virtual desktops may include receiving an input indicating hovering of a pointer over an icon in a toolbar, identifying one or more existing virtual desktops, determining a state for each of the one or more existing virtual desktops by identifying one or more instances of any applications that are currently running in each of the one or more existing virtual desktops and determining a running state for each of the one or more instances, and displaying a preview of each of the one or more existing virtual desktops in response to the hovering of the pointer over the icon. The preview may include displaying the running state for one of the one or more instances for each existing virtual desktop.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leo Tian YUE, Clinton Edward RUTKAS, Lee Dicks CLARK, Peter Josef KREISEDER, Robert Joseph DISANO
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Patent number: 11561808Abstract: A method and system for providing access to virtual desktops may include receiving an input indicating hovering of a pointer over an icon in a toolbar, identifying one or more existing virtual desktops, determining a state for each of the one or more existing virtual desktops by identifying one or more instances of any applications that are currently running in each of the one or more existing virtual desktops and determining a running state for each of the one or more instances, and displaying a preview of each of the one or more existing virtual desktops in response to the hovering of the pointer over the icon. The preview may include displaying the running state for one of the one or more instances for each existing virtual desktop.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leo Tian Yue, Clinton Edward Rutkas, Lee Dicks Clark, Peter Josef Kreiseder, Robert Joseph Disano
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Publication number: 20220398010Abstract: Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Lee Dicks CLARK, Richard FANG, Alisha Dilip GALA, MerryJane M. FOSDICK, Aaron R. TEETOR, Michael Neil LOHOLT, Leo Tian YUE, Albert Peter YIH, Joseph Spencer KING, Elizabeth Picchietti SALOWITZ, Hanna MCLAUGHLIN
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Patent number: 11372541Abstract: Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Lee Dicks Clark, Richard Fang, Alisha Dilip Gala, MerryJane M. Fosdick, Aaron R. Teetor, Michael Neil Loholt, Leo Tian Yue, Albert Peter Yih, Joseph Spencer King, Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz, Hanna McLaughlin
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Publication number: 20220188132Abstract: A method and system for providing access to virtual desktops may include receiving an input indicating hovering of a pointer over an icon in a toolbar, identifying one or more existing virtual desktops, determining a state for each of the one or more existing virtual desktops by identifying one or more instances of any applications that are currently running in each of the one or more existing virtual desktops and determining a running state for each of the one or more instances, and displaying a preview of each of the one or more existing virtual desktops in response to the hovering of the pointer over the icon. The preview may include displaying the running state for one of the one or more instances for each existing virtual desktop.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Leo Tian YUE, Clinton Edward RUTKAS, Lee Dicks CLARK, Peter Josef KREISEDER, Robert Joseph DISANO
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Publication number: 20220075519Abstract: Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Lee Dicks CLARK, Richard FANG, Alisha Dilip GALA, MerryJane M. FOSDICK, Aaron R. TEETOR, Michael Neil LOHOLT, Leo Tian YUE, Albert Peter YIH, Joseph Spencer KING, Elizabeth Picchietti SALOWITZ, Hanna MCLAUGHLIN