Patents by Inventor William P. McDaniel

William P. McDaniel 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).

  • Method and system for representing group policy object topology and relationships
    Patent number: 7614015
    Abstract: A user interface is disclosed for representing group policy object topology and relationships, while allowing interaction to facilitate group policy management. Forests, sites and domains are hierarchically displayed in a treeview that reflects the network topology. The treeview also represents group policy objects, links, filters and other nodes. Administrators perform operations across forests, domains and sites, and perform operations on other nodes in the treeview. Administrators control which forests, sites and domains are viewable in the treeview, and the treeview state is persisted. Logic automatically reduces the topology's complexity by limiting the presentation of forests and/or domains to only those with which the administrator's forest and domain have a proper trust relationship. Also provided is a tabbed view in a result pane area that provides a rich display of complex data, and intelligent refresh logic to update changes in one user interface area to other user interface areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Whalen, Carey Tanner, Matthew Wetmore, William P. McDaniel
  • Method and system for representing group policy object topology and relationships
    Publication number: 20040215649
    Abstract: A system and method including a user interface for representing group policy object topology and relationships, while allowing interaction to facilitate group policy management. Forests, sites and domains are hierarchically displayed in a treeview that reflects the network topology. The treeview also represents group policy objects, links, filters and other nodes. Administrators perform operations across forests, domains and sites, and perform operations on other nodes in the treeview. Administrators control which forests, sites and domains are viewable in the treeview, and the treeview state is persisted. Logic automatically reduces the topology's complexity by limiting the presentation of forests and/or domains to only those with which the administrator's forest and domain have a proper trust relationship. Also provided is a tabbed view in a result pane area that provides a rich display of complex data, and intelligent refresh logic to update changes in one user interface area to other user interface areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: William J. Whalen, Carey Tanner, Matthew Wetmore, William P. McDaniel