Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Hoke

Thomas J. Hoke 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).

  • Publication number: 20110276868
    Abstract: A computing system performs a column adjustment process. The column adjustment process uses multiple threads to determine overall maximum column widths for each column in a set of target columns in a spreadsheet table. For each of the target columns, the overall maximum column width for the target column is based on the width of the widest textual representation of a value in any cell in the column. The set of target columns includes at least one column. The computing system then reflows the spreadsheet table such that each column in the set of target columns has a width based on the overall maximum column width for the column. A similar process is performed to adjust the height of rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Hoke, Chad B. Rothschiller, Su-Piao Wu