Patents by Inventor Mark D. Harper

Mark D. Harper 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).

  • Ink editing architecture
    Patent number: 8072433
    Abstract: A system and process for capturing and rendering ink is described. An ink canvas object may contain none, one, or more objects or elements and may specify the z-order of the objects or elements. The ink canvas object may host a variety of objects or elements and, therefore, provide ink functionality to the objects or elements, even though the objects or elements themselves may not have ink functionality. The ink canvas object is attached to an ink editor that has an associated modifiable ink editor behavior, whereby ink specific behaviors are collected in the ink edit behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Silverman, Sam George, Shiraz Somji, Koji Kato, Brigette Krantz, Alex Mogilevsky, Mark D. Harper, Quan B. To, Vladimir Smirnov, Benjamin M. Westbrook