Shawn James Cokus

6349316, Feb 19, 2002

Apr 8, 1999

09/289085

Ronald A. Fein - Seattle WA
William B. Dolan - Redmond WA
John Messerly - Seattle WA
Edward J. Fries - Kirkland WA
Christopher A. Thorpe - Orangeville UT
Shawn J. Cokus - Seattle WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1500

707531, 707500

An author-oriented document summarizer for a word processor is described. The document summarizer performs a statistical analysis to generate a list of ranked sentences for consideration in the summary. The summarizer counts how frequently content words appear in a document and produces a table correlating the content words with their corresponding frequency counts. Phrase compression techniques are used to produce more accurate counts of repeatedly used phrases. A sentence score for each sentence is derived by summing the frequency counts of the content words in a sentence and dividing that tally by the number of the content words in the sentence. The sentences are then ranked in order of their sentence scores. Concurrent with the statistical analysis, during the same pass through the document the summarizer performs a cue-phrase analysis to weed out sentences with words or phrases that have been pre-identified as potential problem phrases. The cue-phrase analysis compares sentence phrases with a pre-compiled list of words and phrases and sets conditions on whether the sentences containing them can be used in the summary.

6489951, Dec 3, 2002

Jan 7, 1998

09/003643

Peter Kam-Ho Wong - Mercer Island WA
Jeffrey B. Reifman - Seattle WA
Gregory C. Lowney - Redmond WA
Shawn J. Cokus - Syracuse NY

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G 500

345173

A method and system for enabling a visually impaired user to use a touch-sensitive device. The present invention provides an interface for the visually impaired (IVI) system which enables a visually impaired user to use a touch-sensitive screen. The IVI system provides an explore mode in which a visually impaired user may determine which objects are on the touch-sensitive screen by dragging a finger over the touch-sensitive screen. In particular, the IVI system announces objects as a user touches them. For example, the IVI system announces text as it is touched and announces controls, such as buttons, as they are touched. In addition, the IVI system enables a user to execute controls. A user may execute a control, such as a button, by dragging a finger onto the control, and then, without dragging the finger off of the control, lifting the finger off of the touch-sensitive screen. The IVI system further enables a user to scroll through lists on a touch-sensitive screen. In particular, the IVI system enables a user to use a scroll thumb to scroll through a list.

6496182, Dec 17, 2002

Jun 7, 1995

08/481226

Peter Kam-Ho Wong - Mercer Island WA
Jeffrey B. Reifman - Seattle WA
Gregory C. Lowney - Redmond WA
Shawn J. Cokus - Syracuse NY

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G 500

345173

A method and system for enabling a visually impaired user to use a touch-sensitive device. The present invention provides an interface for the visually impaired (IVI) system which enables a visually impaired user to use a touch-sensitive screen. The IVI system provides an explore mode in which a visually impaired user may determine which objects are on the touch-sensitive screen by dragging a finger over the touch-sensitive screen. In particular, the IVI system announces objects as a user touches them. For example, the IVI system announces text as it is touched and announces controls, such as buttons, as they are touched. In addition, the IVI system enables a user to execute controls. A user may execute a control, such as a button, by dragging a finger onto the control, and then, without dragging the finger off of the control, lifting the finger off of the touch-sensitive screen. The IVI system further enables a user to scroll through lists on a touch-sensitive screen. In particular, the IVI system enables a user to use a scroll thumb to scroll through a list.

7051024, May 23, 2006

Feb 11, 2002

10/074951

Ronald A. Fein - Seattle WA, US
William B. Dolan - Redmond WA, US
John Messerly - Seattle WA, US
Edward J. Fries - Kirkland WA, US
Christopher A. Thorpe - Orangeville UT, US
Shawn J. Cokus - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00
G06F 17/30

707 6, 715500, 715531

An author-oriented document summarizer for a word processor is described. The document summarizer performs a statistical analysis to generate a list of ranked sentences for consideration in the summary. The summarizer counts how frequently content words appear in a document and produces a table correlating the content words with their corresponding frequency counts. Phrase compression techniques are used to produce more accurate counts of repeatedly used phrases. A sentence score for each sentence is derived by summing the frequency counts of the content words in a sentence and dividing that tally by the number of the content words in the sentence. The sentences are then ranked in order of their sentence scores. Concurrent with the statistical analysis, during the same pass through the document the summarizer performs a cue-phrase analysis to weed out sentences with words or phrases that have been pre-identified as potential problem phrases. The cue-phrase analysis compares sentence phrases with a pre-compiled list of words and phrases and sets conditions on whether the sentences containing them can be used in the summary.

20060200765, Sep 7, 2006

May 22, 2006

11/419670

Ronald Fein - Seattle WA, US
William Dolan - Redmond WA, US
John Messerly - Seattle WA, US
Edward Fries - Kirkland WA, US
Christopher Thorpe - Orangeville UT, US
Shawn Cokus - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

715530000

A document summarizer for word processors is described. In one aspect, a document is accessed for summarization. Using a phase summarizing process, a sentence-based summary of writings of the document is constructed from the writings. A file associated with the document is located. The sentence-based summary is inserted into the file such that the sentence-based summary is before an opening paragraph of the document. The file is saved to non-volatile memory.

59241080, Jul 13, 1999

Mar 29, 1996

8/622864

Ronald A. Fein - Seattle WA
William B. Dolan - Redmond WA
John Messerly - Seattle WA
Edward J. Fries - Kirkland WA
Christopher A. Thorpe - Orangeville UT
Shawn J. Cokus - Seattle WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1724

707531

An author-oriented document summarizer for a word processor is described. The document summarizer performs a statistical analysis to generate a list of ranked sentences for consideration in the summary. The summarizer counts how frequently content words appear in a document and produces a table correlating the content words with their corresponding frequency counts. Phrase compression techniques are used to produce more accurate counts of repeatedly used phrases. A sentence score for each sentence is derived by summing the frequency counts of the content words in a sentence and dividing that tally by the number of the content words in the sentence. The sentences are then ranked in order of their sentence scores. Concurrent with the statistical analysis, during the same pass through the document the summarizer performs a cue-phrase analysis to weed out sentences with words or phrases that have been pre-identified as potential problem phrases. The cue-phrase analysis compares sentence phrases with a pre-compiled list of words and phrases and sets conditions on whether the sentences containing them can be used in the summary.