Patents by Inventor Patricia Mary Wagoner

Patricia Mary Wagoner 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).

  • Method and system for presenting user interface (UI) information
    Patent number: 8127252
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for providing a custom view of a set of user-interface elements (UI elements) to a requesting component. The method includes representing the UI elements as a raw tree structure composed of a set of nodes, which correspond to the UI elements; identifying a subset of the nodes that satisfy the condition(s); and communicating to the requesting component a representation of all or some of the identified nodes. The apparatus includes a request-transmission component for submitting to an interface component instructions and a transmission-reception component for receiving from the interface component the information associated with one or more UI elements that satisfy the one or more conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan McKeon, Michael Edward Dulac Winser, Patricia Mary Wagoner