Patents by Inventor Lois E. Bauer

Lois E. Bauer 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).

  • System and method for creating a new data structure in memory populated with data from an existing data structure
    Patent number: 5999938
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a new destination data structure in memory populated with data from fields of an existing source data structure. A representation of the source is selected, dragged over, and dropped onto an icon representing a program module. The source and the program module are each associated with a type of data structure. If these types of data structures are different, then the destination is created in memory of the type associated with the program module. Once the destination is created, the data within the source is transformed to populate predetermined fields of the destination. One way of populating the destination is by determining which field in the destination corresponds to a given field in the source. Data from a given field of the source is loaded into the corresponding field of the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Bliss, Jerry R. Hughson, Jr., Lois E. Bauer, Suryanarayanan Raman, Michael L. Roberts, Eric Horvitz, Erich S. Finkelstein