Patents by Inventor Matthew Gregory Hidinger

Matthew Gregory Hidinger 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).

  • Content chase-ability for apps
    Patent number: 10133446
    Abstract: Providing context from a dynamic icon to an underlying application. A method includes displaying dynamically, at a dynamic icon, a plurality of context elements. Each of the context elements corresponds to an item available in an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes receiving user input at the dynamic icon indicating a desire to open an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes, providing to the application underlying the dynamic icon an indication of a context element that was being displayed at the dynamic icon when the user input was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nora I. Micheva, Matthew Gregory Hidinger, Andrew Tyler Bares
  • Content Chase-Ability for Apps
    Publication number: 20170277391
    Abstract: Providing context from a dynamic icon to an underlying application. A method includes displaying dynamically, at a dynamic icon, a plurality of context elements. Each of the context elements corresponds to an item available in an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes receiving user input at the dynamic icon indicating a desire to open an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes, providing to the application underlying the dynamic icon an indication of a context element that was being displayed at the dynamic icon when the user input was received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Nora I. Micheva, Matthew Gregory Hidinger, Andrew Tyler Bares