Patents by Inventor Lori Beth Kratzer

Lori Beth Kratzer 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).

  • SURFACING APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY FOR AN OBJECT
    Publication number: 20190384460
    Abstract: The disclosed technology surfaces application functionality for an object in a user interface of a computing device. A context associated with the object is determined. A contextual tool window of the user interface presents the user interfaces for one or more functions of one or more applications, based on the context, without launching any of the one or more applications in an application window. Selection by a user of one of the presented one or more functions is detected through the contextual tool window in the user interface. The selected function is executed on the object without launching any of the one or more applications in an application window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Edward HARNISCH, Bojana OSTOJIC, Liang CHEN, Jose Alberto RODRIGUEZ, Steven Douglas DEMAR, Lori Beth KRATZER
  • Display screen with icon
    Patent number: D687460
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cara Lyn Tyler, Theodore Aaron Haberman, Jeremy Monroe Bowen, Lori Beth Kratzer, Chad Michael Roberts
  • Display screen with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D705244
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery G. Arnold, Priyanka Singhal, Ryan T. Bickel, Chad Michael Roberts, Lori Beth Kratzer, Jae Park