Patents by Inventor Michael A. Angiulo

Michael A. Angiulo 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).

  • Patent number: 7454711
    Abstract: A tool that enables a user to easily and automatically create a photo gallery of thumbnail images on a Web page. A user selects a group of original images, and the tool automatically produces a corresponding group of thumbnail images on the Web page, with hyperlinks to the corresponding original images. Four predefined templates are included, each defining a different format for the thumbnail images including a vertically oriented gallery, a horizontally oriented gallery, a slide show gallery, and a montage gallery. Captions and descriptive text can also be entered and displayed for the thumbnail images in most of the style galleries. An edit function enables a user to add or delete images to existing galleries and to automatically modify the appearance of a photo gallery by selecting and applying a different template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Angiulo, Benjamin A. Canning, Zhenguang (Robert) Chen, Charles W. Parker, Lou Nell Gerard
  • Patent number: 7168034
    Abstract: Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively displayed in response to a user selecting a text hyperlink anchor or a picture icon hyperlink anchor. Furthermore, the contextual information can include a variety of information about the linked document, including whether it has been modified within a predefined time period, such as the last 24 hours, a comment by the author concerning recent changes, and the size of the document. Preferably, the contextual information is automatically generated by a data promotion engine based on meta-data that is associated with the document and stored on a web site for the document. One of the types of contextual information stored in the meta-data is a manually defined category for a hyperlink in the display page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael A. Angiulo, Michael D. Smith
  • Patent number: 6964025
    Abstract: A tool that enables a user to easily and automatically create a photo gallery of thumbnail images on a Web page. A user selects a group of original images, and the tool automatically produces a corresponding group of thumbnail images on the Web page, with hyperlinks to the corresponding original images. Four predefined templates are included, each defining a different format for the thumbnail images including a vertically oriented gallery, a horizontally oriented gallery, a slide show gallery, and a montage gallery. Captions and descriptive text can also be entered and displayed for the thumbnail images in most of the style galleries. An edit function enables a user to add or delete images to existing galleries and to automatically modify the appearance of a photo gallery by selecting and applying a different template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Angiulo, Benjamin E. Canning, Zhenguang Chen, Charles W. Parker, Lou Nell Gerard
  • Publication number: 20040215664
    Abstract: Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively displayed in response to a user selecting a text hyperlink anchor or a picture icon hyperlink anchor. Furthermore, the contextual information can include a variety of information about the linked document, including whether it has been modified within a predefined time period, such as the last 24 hours, a comment by the author concerning recent changes, and the size of the document. Preferably, the contextual information is automatically generated by a data promotion engine based on meta-data that is associated with the document and stored on a web site for the document. The contextual information may be either added to the document that corresponds to a display page at the time the document page is saved, or it may be dynamically uploaded to a browser when the display page is rendered by a browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael A. Angiulo, Michael D. Smith
  • Patent number: 6763496
    Abstract: Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively displayed in response to a user selecting a text hyperlink anchor or a picture icon hyperlink anchor. Furthermore, the contextual information can include a variety of information about the linked document, including whether it has been modified within a predefined time period, such as the last 24 hours, a comment by the author concerning recent changes, and the size of the document. Preferably, the contextual information is automatically generated by a data promotion engine based on meta-data that is associated with the document and stored on a web site for the document. The contextual information may be either added to the document that corresponds to a display page at the time the document page is saved, or it may be dynamically uploaded to a browser when the display page is rendered by a browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Hennings, Michael A. Angiulo, Michael D. Smith
  • Publication number: 20020135621
    Abstract: A tool that enables a user to easily and automatically create a photo gallery of thumbnail images on a Web page. A user selects a group of original images, and the tool automatically produces a corresponding group of thumbnail images on the Web page, with hyperlinks to the corresponding original images. Four predefined templates are included, each defining a different format for the thumbnail images including a vertically oriented gallery, a horizontally oriented gallery, a slide show gallery, and a montage gallery. Captions and descriptive text can also be entered and displayed for the thumbnail images in most of the style galleries. An edit function enables a user to add or delete images to existing galleries and to automatically modify the appearance of a photo gallery by selecting and applying a different template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Michael A. Angiulo, Benjamin E. Canning, Zhenguang Robert Chen, Charles W. Parker, Lou Nell Gerard
  • Patent number: 6456304
    Abstract: A user interface toolbar and associated method for enabling a user to make a series of selections in a procedural order that can be used to assign properties to a component object in an application program document. The toolbar contains a plurality of selection controls, each containing a control value and a dropdown menu. The menu options that drop down in successive selection controls change in context with the menu choices made in a previous selection control. A user typically fills selection controls from left to right (or top to bottom) in a procedural fashion. As the user makes selections to fill in the controls, the menus corresponding to the selection controls that are downstream (to the right of or below) the last filled selection control are updated based on the content of the previous selections. The toolbar allows a user to select and change any selection previously made, as desired, with the resultant changes effecting the selections and menus to the right of or below the changed selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Angiulo, Nadim Abdo
  • Patent number: 6347323
    Abstract: A method and system for preserving attributes of objects within a file that was created in a different environment from that in which the file is opened, enabling the attributes to be maintained after the file is saved. For example, an HTML document created with a text editor includes elements such as plain text and HTML tags, with which attributes such as whitespace, line breaks, and indent level are associated. When such a document is opened in an HTML editor implementing the present invention, the attributes of these elements are preserved. Even when changes to these elements occur, to the extent possible, the method provides for determining attributes of related elements that were in the document as originally opened in the HTML editor, so that these attributes can be applied to corresponding objects that are added to the document or in regard to changes that are made by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Garber, Theodore J. Stefanik, Terrence R. Crowley, Michael A. Angiulo