Patents by Inventor Neil Kronlage

Neil Kronlage 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).

  • Automatic zooming for text selection/cursor placement
    Patent number: 9317196
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tools and techniques for using a single-finger single touch to zoom content. In one embodiment disclosed herein, a single-finger single touch on a touch screen displaying at least a page of content is detected. At least in response to the detecting the single-finger single touch, a page zoom is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Cheng-Yao Fong, Jeffery G. Arnold, Liang Chen, Neil Kronlage
  • AUTOMATIC ZOOMING FOR TEXT SELECTION/CURSOR PLACEMENT
    Publication number: 20130042199
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tools and techniques for using a single-finger single touch to zoom content. In one embodiment disclosed herein, a single-finger single touch on a touch screen displaying at least a page of content is detected. At least in response to the detecting the single-finger single touch, a page zoom is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Cheng-Yao Fong, Jeffery G. Arnold, Liang Chen, Neil Kronlage
  • CUSTOM TRANSITION FRAMEWORK FOR APPLICATION STATE TRANSITIONS
    Publication number: 20090128581
    Abstract: An application may feature a number of application states among which a process shifts during execution of the application. A user or software developer may wish to define one or more transitions to be rendered between a first application state and a second application state, but the application development environment and operating system may provide only a limited number of general-purpose transitions. Instead, a pluggable architecture may be devised to permit a user or software developer to provide a custom transition, and to specify the rendering of the custom transition between application states. The pluggable architecture may therefore enable the user or software developer to define new transitions that are more relevant and complementary of the application states in transit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Regis Brid, Kathy K. Carper, Brett Samblanet, Neil Kronlage