Patents by Inventor Mark J. T. Durley

Mark J. T. Durley 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).

  • Impact analysis in an object model
    Patent number: 7536406
    Abstract: Impact analysis provides the ability to determine the objects that a particular object depends on or uses, as well as determine the objects that are dependent on or use a particular object. The term object may refer to tasks and/or object types, for example. Impact analysis is desirable for improving user productivity in large, complex documents because it facilitates determining how and where an object is used by other objects in the system, thereby potentially saving a great deal of manual work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: J. Kirk Haselden, Mark J. T. Durley, Matthew E. David, Sergei Ivanov