Patents by Inventor Lisa Osse

Lisa Osse 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).

  • Operating system shut down
    Patent number: 7788474
    Abstract: A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system. Aspects include the operating system receiving a command to initiate shut down, and automatically terminating graphical user interface (GUI) applications that delay shut down which do not have top level windows. Also, aspects provide a user, through a graphical user interface, the ability to automatically terminate all running applications in response to determining that a running GUI application has a top level window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Switzer, Huat Chye Lim, Lisa A. Osse, William Mak, HyunSuk Kim
  • Operating system shut down
    Publication number: 20070050769
    Abstract: A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system. Aspects include the operating system receiving a command to initiate shut down, and automatically terminating graphical user interface (GUI) applications that delay shut down which do not have top level windows. Also, aspects provide a user, through a graphical user interface, the ability to automatically terminate all running applications in response to determining that a running GUI application has a top level window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Switzer, Huat Lim, Lisa Osse, William Mak, HyunSuk Kim
  • Graphical user interface for a display screen
    Patent number: D543986
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Dustin Hubbard, David Brumley, Victor Blanco
  • Graphical user interface for a display screen
    Patent number: D543987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Dustin Hubbard, David Brumley, Victor Blanco
  • Animated graphical user interface for a display screen
    Patent number: D544492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Dustin Hubbard, David Brumley, Victor Blanco
  • Graphical user interface for a display screen
    Patent number: D548239
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Dustin Hubbard, David Brumley, Victor Blanco
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    Patent number: D561779
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Kieran Phelan
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    Patent number: D561780
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Kieran Phelan
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    Patent number: D565593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Colando, Sears Young, Lisa Osse, Kieran Phelan