Patents by Inventor Scott Ruble
Scott Ruble 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).
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Patent number: 9697627Abstract: Data point calculations on a chart are provided. A user control may be displayed adjacent to a chart by a computing device. A selection of data points on the chart may then be received the user control. A calculation may then be performed by the computing device on the data points selected by the user control. The results of the calculation may then be displayed by the computing device on the chart.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian Scott Ruble
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Publication number: 20170177559Abstract: Automatically identifying insights from a dataset and presenting the insights graphically and in natural language text ranked by importance is provided. Different data types and structures in the dataset are automatic recognized and matched with a corresponding specific analysis type. The data is analyzed according to the determined corresponding analysis types, and insights from the analysis are automatically identified. The insights within a given insight type and between insight types are ranked and presented in order of importance in automatically generate charts that visually describe each insight and in natural language text that describes each insight in such a way that it may be understandable to a general audience who may not have a familiarity with statistics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Yingnong Dang, Shusen Liu, Xiao Liang, Haidong Zhang, Jim Sun, Dongmei Zhang, Scott Ruble
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Publication number: 20170169592Abstract: Various methods, systems and storage devices are used for utilizing selective triggering events for optimizing chart visualizations. These selective triggering events can include determinations that chart elements are overlapping, that the chart elements are certain types of chart elements and/or that the chart elements are overlapping by a certain amount. The optimizations can include changing sizes, positions and/or transparencies of different chart elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: B. Scott Ruble, Catherine W. Neylan
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Patent number: 9558172Abstract: Tools and techniques are described for linking visual properties of charts to cells within tables. Methods provided by these tools enable users to select visual properties that are associated with graphical displays of chart data, and to link these visual properties to respective cells within the tables. User interfaces provided by these tools may provide representations of visual properties associated with the graphical displays of chart data, with these representations of the visual properties being responsive to user input to link the cells in the tables to the visual properties. These user interfaces may also include representations of the cells that are associated with the representations of the visual properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin Edward Rampson, Scott Ruble, Benjamin Sklar, Anupam Garg
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Publication number: 20160357425Abstract: A spin control graphical user interface is used to display a currently applied option and to receive options from a user. The spin control is a circular graphical user interface that is positioned near a displayed document to which it applies. For example, the spin control may be positioned on or near a corner of the displayed document. The spin control comprises options that are presented to a user upon rotation of the spin control. An option may be manually selected or automatically selected and applied to the displayed document upon rotating the spin control clockwise or counterclockwise. More than one spin control may be associated with the displayed document. The spin control may be automatically shown and removed from a display in response to whether the document to which the spin control is attached is currently being displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Samuel Chow Radakovitz, Brian Scott Ruble
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Publication number: 20160266766Abstract: Three dimensional, conditional formatting based data visualization is provided. Received underlying data may be analyzed and one or more portions of the underlying data that are of interest to a user determined. The portions may be selected actively by a user of automatically determined based on a variation of values in each portion, values of data points in each portion, a usage history of the user, and/or a credential of the user. A background image may be generated by converting the tabular data into a three dimensional image or selecting and image or a graphic associated with the underlying data. The visualization(s) may then be displayed over the background. Scenes may be selected for animated slide shows or movies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Igor Peev, Brian Scott Ruble
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Publication number: 20160196674Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer system executes a visualization component. Selection of an option to create a tour can be detected by the computer system. In response to detecting selection of the option, the computer system can create a tour. The computer system also can detect selection of an option to add a scene to the tour. The tour can be saved. Playback of the tour can be started in response to detecting selection of a play option. If the playback is paused, changes made to the tour and/or the scenes can be tracked by the computer system, and an updated version of the tour can be saved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: B. Scott Ruble, Ehab Sobhy, Igor Borisov Peev, Curtis G. Wong, John Alfred Payne, Jonathan Edgar Fay, Kevin Fan
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Patent number: 9367198Abstract: A spin control graphical user interface is used to display a currently applied option and to receive options from a user. The spin control is a circular graphical user interface that is positioned near a displayed document to which it applies. For example, the spin control may be positioned on or near a corner of the displayed document. The spin control comprises options that are presented to a user upon rotation of the spin control. An option may be manually selected or automatically selected and applied to the displayed document upon rotating the spin control clockwise or counterclockwise. More than one spin control may be associated with the displayed document. The spin control may be automatically shown and removed from a display in response to whether the document to which the spin control is attached is currently being displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Samuel Chow Radakovitz, Brian Scott Ruble
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Patent number: 9360992Abstract: Three dimensional, conditional formatting based data visualization is provided. Received underlying data may be analyzed and one or more portions of the underlying data that are of interest to a user determined. The portions may be selected actively by a user of automatically determined based on a variation of values in each portion, values of data points in each portion, a usage history of the user, and/or a credential of the user. A background image may be generated by converting the tabular data into a three dimensional image or selecting and image or a graphic associated with the underlying data. The visualization(s) may then be displayed over the background. Scenes may be selected for animated slide shows or movies.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Igor Peev, Brian Scott Ruble
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Patent number: 9317963Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer system executes a visualization component. Selection of an option to create a tour can be detected by the computer system. In response to detecting selection of the option, the computer system can create a tour. The computer system also can detect selection of an option to add a scene to the tour. The tour can be saved. Playback of the tour can be started in response to detecting selection of a play option. If the playback is paused, changes made to the tour and/or the scenes can be tracked by the computer system, and an updated version of the tour can be saved.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: B. Scott Ruble, Ehab Sobhy, Igor Borisov Peev, Curtis G. Wong, John Alfred Payne, Jonathan Edgar Fay, Kevin Fan
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Publication number: 20160071297Abstract: Data point calculations on a chart are provided. A user control may be displayed adjacent to a chart by a computing device. A selection of data points on the chart may then be received the user control. A calculation may then be performed by the computing device on the data points selected by the user control. The results of the calculation may then be displayed by the computing device on the chart.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Brian Scott Ruble
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Patent number: 9250926Abstract: A platform extensibility framework may be provided. A visualization platform may register feature extensions and receive requests to create objects. The objects may be created according to drawing instructions provided by the visualization platform, an application requesting the object's creation, and/or at least one of the feature extensions.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Barry Christopher Allyn, Brian Scott Ruble, Benjamin Edward Rampson
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Patent number: 9183650Abstract: Data point calculations on a chart are provided. A user control may be displayed adjacent to a chart by a computing device. A selection of data points on the chart may then be received the user control. A calculation may then be performed by the computing device on the data points selected by the user control. The results of the calculation may then be displayed by the computing device on the chart.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Brian Scott Ruble
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Patent number: 9117007Abstract: A system facilitates dynamic data visualizations. The system includes an analysis component that periodically processes one or more incoming data streams to determine a visualization form from a plurality of visualization forms. A visualization component dynamically generates the visualization form based in part on the processing of the incoming data streams.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: George G. Robertson, Christian Bernd Schormann, Brian Scott Ruble, Danyel A. Fisher, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Nathan Paul McCoy, William G. Morein, Michael Ehrenberg
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Publication number: 20150033131Abstract: Three dimensional, conditional formatting based data visualization is provided. Received underlying data may be analyzed and one or more portions of the underlying data that are of interest to a user determined. The portions may be selected actively by a user of automatically determined based on a variation of values in each portion, values of data points in each portion, a usage history of the user, and/or a credential of the user. A background image may be generated by converting the tabular data into a three dimensional image or selecting and image or a graphic associated with the underlying data. The visualization(s) may then be displayed over the background. Scenes may be selected for animated slide shows or movies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Igor Peev, Brian Scott Ruble
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Publication number: 20150029194Abstract: Data point calculations on a chart are provided. A user control may be displayed adjacent to a chart by a computing device. A selection of data points on the chart may then be received the user control. A calculation may then be performed by the computing device on the data points selected by the user control. The results of the calculation may then be displayed by the computing device on the chart.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Brian Scott Ruble
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Patent number: 8786628Abstract: Rendering electronic chart objects is provided. A set of chart elements having a common set of properties is identified. Formatting attributes of the chart elements and the data point locations for each chart element are also identified. Path information is generated for the chart elements that includes the formatting attributes and the data point locations. The path information is provided to a rendering engine that renders a chart element. Each chart element in the set is displayed on a display screen. Chart elements having a common set of properties are only rendered once. Alternatively, chart objects are rendered by generating and storing an image of chart objects having a common geometry and common properties and by copying the stored image to each data point location. Dynamic selection of rendering engines based on property and performance criteria may be utilized to enhance rendering performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Benjamin Edward Rampson, Randall L. Davis, B. Scott Ruble, Daniel Philip Cory, Andrew John Verprauskus, Barry Christopher Allyn, Marcus Eduardo Markiewicz, Matthew John Androski
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Publication number: 20140047328Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer system executes a visualization component. Selection of an option to create a tour can be detected by the computer system. In response to detecting selection of the option, the computer system can create a tour. The computer system also can detect selection of an option to add a scene to the tour. The tour can be saved. Playback of the tour can be started in response to detecting selection of a play option. If the playback is paused, changes made to the tour and/or the scenes can be tracked by the computer system, and an updated version of the tour can be saved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: B. Scott Ruble, Ehab Sobhy, Igor Borisov Peev, Curtis G. Wong, John Alfred Payne, Jonathan Edgar Fay, Kevin Fan
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Publication number: 20140043325Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for facetted browsing. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, data can be obtained at a computer system. The data can include data values and geographic information. The computer system can generate a geospatial visualization of the data based, at least partially, upon the data values and the geographic location information. The computer system can also generate an overlay visualization of the data based, at least partially, upon the data values. The computer system can also output the geospatial visualization and the overlay visualization.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: B. Scott Ruble, Danhua Zhu, Eric W. Patterson, Curtis G. Wong, Jai Srinivasan, Kevin Fan, Jonathan Edgar Fay, John Alfred Payne, Igor Borisov Peev
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Publication number: 20140047385Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing a 3D data environment disambiguation tool. In accordance with some concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 3D data environment disambiguation tool can be configured to resolve an ambiguity associated with one or more data points to be rendered in a 3D data environment. The 3D data environment disambiguation tool can present various user interfaces to receive inputs to resolve an ambiguity associated with a data point. The ambiguity can be resolved prior to, in conjunction with, or after the selected data is rendered in a 3D data environment, or various combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: B. Scott Ruble, Kevin Fan, Jai Srinivasan, Michael Kallay, Alexandre da Veiga, Ehab Sobhy