Patents by Inventor Raymond A. Manning

Raymond A. Manning 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).

  • Operating system for handheld computing device having program icon auto hide
    Patent number: 6304261
    Abstract: A portable handheld computing device has a processor and a touch-sensitive display. The display includes a touch-sensitive area superimposed on a viewing area, whereby the touch-sensitive area extends beyond the viewing area to form a border outside of the viewing area but within the touch-sensitive area. The handheld computing device has an operating system that executes on the processor to provide a graphical user interface environment capable of presenting a program taskbar within the viewing area. The operating system is configured to present a taskbar within the viewing area in response to contact from a stylus in the border beneath the viewing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Timothy Shields, Raymond A. Manning, Anthony Kitowitz
  • Transferring outline fonts to devices requiring raster fonts
    Patent number: 6043826
    Abstract: A computer system in accordance with the invention includes a primary desktop computer and an auxiliary portable computer. The two computers are configured to work together--documents such as word processing documents are at times downloaded from the desktop computer for viewing and editing on the portable computer. However, the desktop computer uses TrueType outline fonts, while the portable computer uses raster fonts. The desktop computer includes a conversion program that is automatically invoked when the user copies an outline font file to the portable computer. The conversion program makes calls to the graphics device interface of the desktop computer to render outline character glyphs to a bitmap. The resulting bitmap is used as the basis of a rasterized character glyph. A set of glyphs is converted in this manner and compiled into a raster font file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond A. Manning
  • Operating system for handheld computing device having taskbar auto hide
    Patent number: 5910802
    Abstract: A portable handheld computing device has a processor and a touch-sensitive display. The display includes a touch-sensitive area superimposed on a viewing area, whereby the touch-sensitive area extends beyond the viewing area to form a border outside of the viewing area but within the touch-sensitive area. The handheld computing device has an operating system that executes on the processor to provide a graphical user interface environment capable of presenting a program taskbar within the viewing area. The operating system is configured to present a taskbar within the viewing area in response to contact from a stylus in the border beneath the viewing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Timothy Shields, Raymond A. Manning, Anthony Kitowitz