Joseph Troy King

6734871, May 11, 2004

Aug 21, 2001

09/935136

Steven E. Weil - Bellevue WA
Michael B. Orr - Bainbridge Island WA
Joseph King - Seattle WA
Nathan W. Everett - Bellevue WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 1500

345619

A scheme data structure is used for applying a set of coordinated attributes to any number of components within a composition such as a document, Internet web page, computer screen etc. A scheme data structure allows a user to easily apply variations of professionally designed font, color, graphic, paragraph and other schemes to a composition. The data structure includes a scheme instance category indicating a type of scheme and a number of attributes corresponding to the scheme instance category. The structure has a number of scheme slots, and each scheme slot can be associated with zero or more components of the composition. Each of the scheme slots is arranged to hold a distinct value for each of the attributes. Thus, for each of the scheme slots, the scheme instance data structure may be used to apply values of attributes to the components of the composition associated with each scheme slot. Each scheme instance data structure may also have a number of levels.

6928610, Aug 9, 2005

Oct 28, 2002

10/281261

Keith S. Brintzenhofe - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Nathan W. Everett - Bellevue WA, US
Gay Linda Gardner - Lake Stevens WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Geoffrey von Limbach - Seattle WA, US
Marc B. McDonald - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael B. Orr - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Steven E. Weil - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F015/00
G06F017/00
G06F017/21

715517, 7155011, 715514, 715522, 715530

A three-way separation of information in a document includes content, design and media aspects. This division supports automatic rendering to multiple forms of media such as print, Intranet, Internet, and OLE embedding. In a particular embodiment, the document is separated into its content, design and media aspects. Content, design, a medium specification are identified and layout is performed as per the three aspects. In one embodiment, an information data structure is provided that includes three tree structures: a design tree, a content tree and a media tree. A media division data structure is associated with a parent component in a composition. The parent component has a parent region in a medium and has child components. Each child component is associated with a child region of the medium. The media division data structure provides rules, properties and values for performing layout in a particular region of the medium.

7062402, Jun 13, 2006

May 19, 2004

10/848001

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

G06F 19/00

702123, 347 19, 358406

A system and related techniques automatically exercise the output capabilities of a printer or other output device, and return a log or record of those capabilities to the print manager of a host operating system or other destination. According to embodiments, the host, client or other machine may decide to query a printer, facsimile machine, copy or multifunction machine or other device to determine its range of output capabilities such as available fonts, graphical or rending routines, firmware compatibility or other functions or capabilities. The host may transmit a composite electronic document, containing various components including intermediate language objects which may be interpreted to execute various output processing, such as exercising a set of fonts, scaling, rotating, or other rendering or output functions. The results may be captured in the printer or other output device, for instance by dumping an output buffer or returning execution codes, and returned to the host machine where the available capabilities may be displayed, including in embodiments a rendering of the physical output or simulated physical output on the user interface. The invention offers enhanced profiling and verification for printers and other output systems, compared to manual test pages and other test procedures.

7096143, Aug 22, 2006

Nov 18, 2005

11/281680

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 19/00

702123, 347 19, 358406

A system and related techniques automatically exercise the output capabilities of a printer or other output device, and return a log or record of those capabilities to the print manager of a host operating system or other destination. According to embodiments, the host, client or other machine may decide to query a printer, facsimile machine, copy or multifunction machine or other device to determine its range of output capabilities such as available fonts, graphical or rending routines, firmware compatibility or other functions or capabilities. The host may transmit a composite electronic document, containing various components including intermediate language objects which may be interpreted to execute various output processing, such as exercising a set of fonts, scaling, rotating, or other rendering or output functions. The results may be captured in the printer or other output device, for instance by dumping an output buffer or returning execution codes, and returned to the host machine where the available capabilities may be displayed, including in embodiments a rendering of the physical output or simulated physical output on the user interface. The invention offers enhanced profiling and verification for printers and other output systems, compared to manual test pages and other test procedures.

7213035, May 1, 2007

May 17, 2003

10/440501

David B. Ornstein - Seattle WA, US
Ilan S. Sender - Bellevue WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Young Gah Kim - Bothell WA, US
Jason M. Cahill - Carnation WA, US
Keith S. Brintzenhofe - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

7071041, 715523

Described is a mechanism for providing a single file that includes multiple representations of the same document content. Each of the representations may be optimized to provide a superior presentation for a particular device or application. The mechanism of the invention is preferably based on a compound file format that allows multiple renditions of the same content to be stored in a single document. Meta information is included within the single document that describes each of the multiple renditions together with any supporting files that may be used with those renditions. The inventors have determined that the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) compound file format is especially well suited to implementations of the invention.

7331014, Feb 12, 2008

May 16, 2003

10/439505

Robert A. Relyea - Bellevue WA, US
Roger Grambihler - Woodinville WA, US
Jeff Bogdan - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Chris Wilson - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/00

715513, 715524, 71550101

Described is a method and data structure that enables an object to be specified declaratively within a markup document. The markup document may be XML-based. In accordance with the invention, the object is written based on a mapping. The mapping includes a URL attribute for defining a location for a definition file having assemblies and namespaces where classes are specified. The class name is mapped to the markup document as a tag name. Properties and events of a class are mapped to attributes of the tag associated with the class. The method further includes a method to parse the markup language to create a hierarchy of objects. Attributes that do not map directly to a class are defined with a definition tag. The definition tag is also used to add programming code to a page.

7392533, Jun 24, 2008

May 19, 2004

10/848071

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/04
G06F 17/30
G06K 9/00
H04L 9/32

726 2, 371111

A system and related techniques detect and manage the set of rights associated with a componentized electronic document, including to separately protect and manage individual text, graphic, audio, video or other parts of a multimedia presentation. Unlike prior digital asset management platforms which could enforce encryption or other protection simply around the entire object, the invention permits individualized control over separate media components, to permit distribution for example of some parts, such as text passages, while preventing unauthorized access or copying of audio, photographic, video or other files or content. The electronic document may maintain a list of media components and the set of rights associated with each such component, and a content server or other source may apply key encryption or other safeguards to guide the delivery of the overall media object or its parts, for instance to view in a browser, print on a printer or otherwise access, manipulate or output the content.

7461332, Dec 2, 2008

May 31, 2005

11/139504

Keith S. Brintzenhofe - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Nathan W. Everett - Bellevue WA, US
Gay Linda Gardner - Lake Stevens WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Geoffrey Von Limbach - Seattle WA, US
Marc B. McDonald - Mercer Island WA, US
Michael B. Orr - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Steven E. Weil - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/00
G06F 17/00

715205, 715202, 715203, 715204, 715243, 715244, 715249

A three-way separation of information in a document includes content, design and media aspects. This division supports automatic rendering to multiple forms of media such as print, Intranet, Internet, and OLE embedding. In a particular embodiment, the document is separated into its content, design and media aspects. Content, design, a medium specification are identified and layout is performed as per the three aspects. In one embodiment, an information data structure is provided that includes three tree structures: a design tree, a content tree and a media tree. A media division data structure is associated with a parent component in a composition. The parent component has a parent region in a medium and has child components. Each child component is associated with a child region of the medium. The media division data structure provides rules, properties and values for performing layout in a particular region of the medium.