Patents by Inventor Stefan Wick

Stefan Wick 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).

  • TOUCH INPUT FOR HOSTED APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20110122070
    Abstract: A multi-touch plug-in system is described herein that exposes multi-touch data for web application developers to consume in a platform independent way. The multi-touch plug-in system receives platform-specific touch data from an operating system or touch hardware, interprets the platform-specific touch data to convert the platform-specific touch data to generic touch data, and provides the generic touch data to a hosted application running within a plug-in sandbox. Often, sandboxed environments only allow identified, trusted plug-ins to execute. By managing multi-touch data within a trusted plug-in, the plug-in can ensure that hosted applications are properly restricted to well-defined behavior, while still allowing rich features such as multi-touch interaction. Thus, the multi-touch plug-in system brings rich multi-touch interaction to a web browsing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Joseph Smith, Sam J. George, Stefan Wick, Todd A. Torset, Jesse Bishop
  • Rendering highlighting strokes
    Patent number: 7924284
    Abstract: A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node. Additionally, visuals containing highlighter strokes of the same color are grouped into collections of visuals (one collection per each highlighter color), and change the opacity of the collection (parent) visual to semi-transparent (or any other transparency value defined for the highlighter effect).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Ewanchuk, Koji Kato, Stefan Wick, Vladimir V. Smirnov, Sam J. George, Shawn Van Ness
  • Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment
    Patent number: 7499058
    Abstract: A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shawn Van Ness, Sam George, Stefan Wick, Brian Ewanchuk, Todd Torset, Wayne Zeng, Xiao Tu, Koji Kato, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov, Timothy Kannapel, Manoj Biswas, Kevin Welton, Richmond Lough, Chandramouli Kompella, Hongan Wang, Steven P. Dodge, Todd M. Landstad, Shiraz Somji, Vladimir V. Smirnov, Stephen A. Fisher, Rudolph Balaz, Michael Russell
  • Mechanism for allowing applications to filter out or opt into table input
    Publication number: 20060282574
    Abstract: A system for enabling a tablet input object is described. A tablet input object can take various inputs from touch, a mouse, and a pen and send their information to an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Zotov, Reed Townsend, Steven Dodge, Todd Landstad, Olumuyiwa Durojaiye, Stefan Wick, Vijayakumar Rangasamy
  • Programmatical Access to Handwritten Electronic Ink in a Tree-Based Rendering Environment
    Publication number: 20060274057
    Abstract: A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shawn Van Ness, Sam George, Stefan Wick, Brian Ewanchuk, Todd Torset, Wayne Zeng, Xiao Tu, Koji Kato, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov, Timothy Kannapel, Manoj Biswas, Kevin Welton, Richmond Lough, Chandramouli Kompella, Hongan Wang, Steven Dodge, Todd Landstad, Shiraz Somji, Vladimir Smirnov, Stephen Fisher, Rudolph Balaz, Michael Russell
  • Rendering highlighting strokes
    Publication number: 20060242349
    Abstract: A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ewanchuk, Koji Kato, Stefan Wick, Vladimir Smirnov, Sam George, Shawn Van Ness