Dale E Rogerson

US Patent:

7624111, Nov 24, 2009

Filed:

Jun 27, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/167448

Inventors:

Andrew Douglas Reddish - Seattle WA, US
Dale Elton Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
Justin Shane McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Praful Pratap Chavda - Redmond WA, US
Sridhar Chandrashekar - Redmond WA, US
Wenlong Dong - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 700/2006

US Classification:

707 9, 714 25, 726 25

Abstract:

An active content trust model provides security in a help system. The security is provided in response to a call from a calling application to access active content. When the call is received, a determination is made, based on predetermined criteria, which execution mode to use to access the active content. The active content is then accessed in the determined execution mode, thus providing the security.

US Patent:

7627557, Dec 1, 2009

Filed:

Jun 27, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/167840

Inventors:

J. Shane McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Amit Rai - Seattle WA, US
Christopher McConnell - Redmond WA, US
Dale Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
Kipper York - Seattle WA, US
Scott Whalley - Seattle WA, US
Tom Laird-McConnell - Bellevue WA, US
Wenlong Dong - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

707 3, 715713, 715714

Abstract:

Computer assistance content related to a plurality of software entities is combined into a single assistance content corpus. The corpus may be organized hierarchically. The hierarchical organization can be done using content sets that relate assistance content with associated metadata. Content sets can be related to each other in parent-child relationships. The relationship definitions can be separate from the content set definitions. Scope and bias information can be used to constrain assistance content searching over the corpus and to bias search results based on one or more state variables of the user's computer. A remote assistance server can be used to provide updated or newer assistance content to the user. When the remote assistance server is used, an assistance request from the user is supplemented with scope information.

US Patent:

7644354, Jan 5, 2010

Filed:

Apr 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/118025

Inventors:

Dale Elton Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
Justin Shane McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Andrew Douglas Reddish - Seattle WA, US
Sridhar Chandrashekar - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06N 3/00

US Classification:

715234

Abstract:

Flexible information appearance and behavior can be achieved with an extensible multi-phase transform engine. The transform engine can apply a series of transforms to markup language content. In a help service embodiment, application creators can specify a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) for help content, and a collection of transforms and/or executable code for formatting and presenting the help content. The transforms may be custom transforms registered with the help service, or may be selected from a set of stock pre-registered transforms. The transforms can be applied by the engine to the help content. Custom transforms and transform selection may be used to control content appearance and engine output format. Transform operation may also trigger custom executable code to accomplish desired help behaviors.

US Patent:

7822992, Oct 26, 2010

Filed:

Apr 7, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/819607

Inventors:

Dale E. Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
Sridhar Chandrashekar - Redmond WA, US
J. Shane McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Wenlong Dong - Redmond WA, US
Andrew D. Reddish - Seattle WA, US
Praful Chavda - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00
G06F 12/14
G06F 12/16
G06F 7/04
G06F 17/30
G06F 11/30
G08B 23/00
H04N 7/16
B41K 3/38

US Classification:

713187, 726 22, 726 26, 380 59

Abstract:

Content including links to behaviors (code which can be executed and return supplemental content for insertion, or can modify existing content) is stored, and at run-time, the links to behaviors are followed and the supplemental content or the modifications to existing comment are used to create a final version of content which will be presented to the user. Security enhancements including a security check ensure that only behaviors which are secure will be run. Default content may be provided, which may be inserted if the security check is not passed, or if the content returned from the behavior is unusable for some reason.

US Patent:

7890744, Feb 15, 2011

Filed:

Apr 7, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/819606

Inventors:

Sridhar Chandrashekar - Redmond WA, US
Dale E. Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
J. Shane McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Wenlong Dong - Redmond WA, US
Andrew D. Reddish - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/04
G06F 17/30
G06F 9/00
G06F 9/24
G06F 15/177
G06F 1/24
G06F 17/00
G06F 17/20
G06F 17/21
G06F 17/22
G06F 17/24
G06F 17/25
G06F 17/26
G06F 17/27
G06F 17/28
G06F 3/00
H04N 7/16
B41K 3/38

US Classification:

713100, 726 2, 726 26, 713 1, 380 59, 715234, 715273, 715744

Abstract:

A content author provides content to be displayed, including some content elements for which display is conditional on the state of the machine in which the content will be viewed. The conditional statements controlling the display of these content elements, in one embodiment refer to states provided by a state monitor. The state may refer to the state of any aspect of the viewing environment, including hardware, software, firmware, user preferences, software operating modes, and any other detectable state. The resulting content is optionally combined with other similar content via a structural transform. This content is transformed with a presentation transform. One of the transforms checks the states and resolves the conditional statements included by the content author. The result of the transforms is presentation data. A display of this presentation data includes the content which, according to the conditional statements and the state of the viewing environment is appropriate for display.

US Patent:

8276070, Sep 25, 2012

Filed:

Apr 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/119177

Inventors:

Dale Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
Andrew Reddish - Seattle WA, US
Sridhar Chandrashekar - Redmond WA, US
Justin McRoberts - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715705, 715708, 715714, 715249

Abstract:

A system for presentation of help files on a computer with an operating system and a display is provided. Presentation-independent information associated with an application is stored on the computer. A help application is adapted to access the presentation-independent information based on user interactions and automatically to select between available rendering applications at runtime for displaying the presentation-independent information on the display.

US Patent:

20040044635, Mar 4, 2004

Filed:

Aug 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/645290

Inventors:

Jonathan Gordon - Redmond WA, US
Timothy Sullivan - Seattle WA, US
Justin McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Scott Swanson - Redmond WA, US
Alex Kipman - Duvall WA, US
Madhavi Lakamsani - Bellevue WA, US
Paul McKee - Redmond WA, US
Saurabh Jain - Bellevue WA, US
Dale Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
Octavia Petrovici - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation

International Classification:

G09G005/00
G06F017/00
G06N005/02

US Classification:

706/050000, 345/705000, 345/708000

Abstract:

The aforementioned need is satisfied by the present invention in which a help architecture supports an application and a help engine operating on a computer, where the help engine is for locating help topics relevant to the application. In the help architecture, at least one help library stores a plurality of help topics therein, where the help topics are accessible to a user from the help library by way of the computer, and a central store stores topic metadata corresponding to help topics available from each help library. The central store in response to a search request from the help engine locates topic metadata relevant to the search request and returns information from the located topic metadata.

US Patent:

20050229099, Oct 13, 2005

Filed:

Apr 7, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/819661

Inventors:

Dale Rogerson - Seattle WA, US
J. McRoberts - Seattle WA, US
Andrew Reddish - Seattle WA, US
Kipper York - Seattle WA, US
Ginger Gloystein - Lincoln NE, US
Sridhar Chandrashekar - Redmond WA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/00

US Classification:

715523000

Abstract:

A content author marks content semantically, rather than providing presentational indications in the content. The markings conform to a semantic schema, which define different semantic elements which may occur in the content. The resulting semantically-marked content is optionally combined with other semantically-marked content to form combined semantically-marked content. The final presentationally-marked content is transformed with a presentation transform indicating how semantic content should be displayed. The result is presentation data. The presentation data contains the content with presentational indications, including presentational markings or code references or fragments. These presentational indications indicate how content should be displayed. In this way, uniformity in presenting data authored by different content authors or at different times can be achieved.