Patents by Inventor Mark H Enomoto

Mark H Enomoto 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).

  • Managing position and size for a desktop component
    Patent number: 7290217
    Abstract: In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the desktop component to enable a user to resize the desktop component, and/or a caption bar is displayed along an edge of the component to enable a user to move the desktop component on the desktop. The caption bar may additionally be provided with menu and close buttons, to enable the user to bring up a menu of properties and/or actions for the desktop component, and close the desktop component, respectively. When the pointer is outside any region relevant to a desktop component, no borders or caption bars are displayed, thereby resulting in a visually less cluttered appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R Jones, Christopher R Brown, Michael A Schmidt, Sankar Ramasubramanian, Sean L Flynn, Edward J Anderson, Mark H Enomoto, Gayna Williams, Bryan T Starbuck
  • Managing position and size for a desktop component
    Patent number: 7284209
    Abstract: In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the desktop component to enable a user to resize the desktop component, and/or a caption bar is displayed along an edge of the component to enable a user to move the desktop component on the desktop. The caption bar may additionally be provided with menu and close buttons, to enable the user to bring up a menu of properties and/or actions for the desktop component, and close the desktop component, respectively. When the pointer is outside any region relevant to a desktop component, no borders or caption bars are displayed, thereby resulting in a visually less cluttered appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R Jones, Christopher R Brown, Michael A Schmidt, Sankar Ramasubramanian, Sean L Flynn, Edward J Anderson, Mark H Enomoto, Gayna Williams, Bryan T Starbuck
  • Managing position and size for a desktop component
    Patent number: 6819345
    Abstract: In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the desktop component to enable a user to resize the desktop component, and/or a caption bar is displayed along an edge of the component to enable a user to move the desktop component on the desktop. The caption bar may additionally be provided with menu and close buttons, to enable the user to bring up a menu of properties and/or actions for the desktop component, and close the desktop component, respectively. When the pointer is outside any region relevant to a desktop component, no borders or caption bars are displayed, thereby resulting in a visually less cluttered appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R. Jones, Christopher R. Brown, Michael A. Schmidt, Sankar Ramasubramanian, Sean L. Flynn, Edward Jason Anderson, Mark H. Enomoto, Gayna Williams, Bryan T. Starbuck
  • User interface for palm-sized computing devices and method and apparatus for displaying the same
    Patent number: 6727917
    Abstract: The hand-held computing device user interface (UI) of the present invention displays information for an active application program in a middle portion of the screen, and displays a shell program controlled navigation bar at a top portion of the screen. The navigation bar includes a navigation icon which when tapped by the stylus aids the user in navigating to other application programs. The navigation bar also includes a title for the active application program, thus saving vertical real estate on the screen. The UI of the present invention also displays an application menu bar at a bottom portion of the screen so that the user of the hand-held device can manipulate data from the active application by tapping menu items with a stylus without blocking view of the middle portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chee H. Chew, Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Jeffrey R. Blum, Christen E. Coomer, Mark H. Enomoto, Greg A. Keyser, Kathryn L. Parker, William H. Vong, Sarah E. Zuberec
  • Smart column for contact information on palm-sized computing devices and method and apparatus for displaying the same
    Patent number: 6593949
    Abstract: The UI of the present invention increases the number of contacts initially shown to the user of a hand-held device to aid the user in finding information in a Contacts database. While displaying a list of Contacts database entries, the UI displays a column which contains single letters indicating the type of information displayed for the names represented in the list of entries. A tap on a letter in that column causes a sub-list of other most commonly needed information to be deployed for the corresponding entry, potentially eliminating the need for the user to open the entire record for that entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chee H. Chew, Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Ido Ben-Shachar, Jeffrey R. Blum, Mark H. Enomoto, Greg A. Keyser, Kathryn L. Parker, Kevin T. Shields, Sarah E. Zuberec