Patents by Inventor Timothy Benton

Timothy Benton 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: 20070067726
    Abstract: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. A user interface can obtain content including data and associated tasks from a set of software applications. Consequently, users can access content from multiple applications without navigating away from the user interface. The system architecture is extensible, providing for the addition of applications and user interfaces without requiring modification of the existing applications or user interfaces. Applications can register data suppliers capable of retrieving data from the underlying data store for the application and task executors capable of acting on the data. A user interface can generate a query requesting a class of data and specifying a context used to filter possible results. The system can determine the appropriate data suppliers, distribute queries and return the assembled results to the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Flynt, Bryan Agnetta, Sally Barton, Peter Chin, Vinoo Cherian, Timothy Benton, Eduardo Escardo-Raffo, Ardan Arac, Shashank Gupta, Keith Bentley