Patents by Inventor Robert F. Keohane

Robert F. Keohane 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: 7712049
    Abstract: An improved user interface is provided for allowing the application of two properties or pieces of metadata to an object with a single user action. A two-dimensional radial menu (user interface) is provided. The radial menu is a generally pie-shaped user interface that is divided into two or more slices associated with two or more corresponding types of a first property that may be applied to a selected object. The menu is further divided to two or more circular sections so that each slice of the pie-shaped radial menu is further divided into two or more sections. Each circular section is associated with a type of a second property that may be applied to the object. By selection of a given section in a given slice of the radial menu, one type of the first property associated with the given slice and a one type of the second property associated with the given circular section of the slice are applied to the selected object with a single user action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cheryl L. Williams, Stephen D. Jensen, Robert F. Keohane, Richard H. Leukart
  • Patent number: D554143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Keohane
  • Patent number: D556766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Keohane
  • Patent number: D562337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Keohane
  • Patent number: D562338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Keohane
  • Patent number: D562339
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Keohane
  • Patent number: D562839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Keohane
  • Patent number: D798887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Sadler, Xiaogang Yang, Nerea Armendariz, Maria M. Cameron, Jesse Clay Satterfield, Robert F. Keohane, Sangram Salunkhe, Sander M. Viegers