Patents by Inventor Robin Marie Miller

Robin Marie Miller 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).

  • Extensible content focus mode
    Patent number: 9268875
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for providing a focus-on-content (FOC) mode for a content page. The content page may be received. The content page may include a content portion and various other portions. The content page may be configured in a first state. Code configured to transform the content page from the first state to a second state may be received. The second state may place a greater focus on the content portion and produce a reduced focus on the other portions than the first state. The code may be inserted into the content page. A user instruction to enable the FOC mode may be received. Response to receiving the user instruction to enable the FOC mode, the content page may be transformed from the first state to the second state in accordance with the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Thomas Campbell, Robin Marie Miller, Dhivya Padmanabhan
  • Extensible Content Focus Mode
    Publication number: 20140019849
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for providing a focus-on-content (FOC) mode for a content page. The content page may be received. The content page may include a content portion and various other portions. The content page may be configured in a first state. Code configured to transform the content page from the first state to a second state may be received. The second state may place a greater focus on the content portion and produce a reduced focus on the other portions than the first state. The code may be inserted into the content page. A user instruction to enable the FOC mode may be received. Response to receiving the user instruction to enable the FOC mode, the content page may be transformed from the first state to the second state in accordance with the code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Thomas Campbell, Robin Marie Miller, Dhivya Padmanabhan