Dachuan Zhang, Age 503039 Baze Rd, San Mateo, CA 94403

7598954, Oct 6, 2009

Mar 1, 2006

11/366925

Sara Brown - Redmond WA, US
Ryan C. Hill - Redmond WA, US
Dachuan Zhang - Redmond WA, US
Andrew Hewatt - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G 5/00
G06T 11/00

345467, 345468, 345469, 345611, 345619

Methods, systems, and computer program products adapt and render a graphic effect associated with text rendered via an output device. A method involves receiving a character associated with a graphic effect and determining whether the graphic effect has not been fully rendered with a previously received character via the output device. Graphic effects that are fully rendered are rendered in full fidelity without degradation. In response to determining that the graphic effect has not been fully rendered with the previously received character, the method further involves degrading a display quality of the graphic effect and rendering the graphic effect with degradation and rendering the character to allow the character and the graphic effect to be displayed via the output device substantially in real time.

7712018, May 4, 2010

Dec 12, 2005

11/302001

Sara Melanie Brown - Palo Alto CA, US
Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Jonathan Patrick Schoeller - Mountain View CA, US
Michael John Arvold - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

715204, 715256

Selecting and formatting warped text is disclosed. Text effects such as an underline effect and/or a strikethrough effect may be transformed along with rectangular text to form a warped text element. In such a situation, the text effects are warped with the characters of the text. Also, warped text may be accurately selected or “hit. ” The coordinates of a selection of warped text are inversely transformed to map the selection to the rectangular text. The inverse transform provides an accurate manner to determine the scope and location of the selection. When the scope and location are determined, the graphical representation of the selection may be transformed to provide a user with an accurate representation of a warped selection.

7904418, Mar 8, 2011

Nov 14, 2006

11/599085

Siddharth Agrawal - Santa Clara CA, US
Robert C. Parker - Beijing, CN
Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

707610, 707690, 715203

An edit list including a collection of change descriptions and definitions for a primary data structure is used for on-demand, incremental updating of associated auxiliary data structures. Edits performed on the primary data structure are recorded in the edit list with a version stamp, along with definitions of the changes and any other pertinent data. Each auxiliary data structure maintains its own version stamp that identifies when the auxiliary data structure was last synchronized with the primary data structure. When an auxiliary data structure needs to be updated, the edit list is retrieved and change descriptions scanned to find one with the matching version stamp. All change descriptions logged since that one are incorporated into the auxiliary data structure. The specific contents of each change description enable the auxiliary data structure to be incrementally updated as each change description is processed individually.

7941749, May 10, 2011

May 15, 2007

11/803690

Siddharth Agrawal - Santa Clara CA, US
Robert Parker - Beijing, CN
Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00
G06F 15/16

715255, 715204, 715234, 707999102, 707E17022

Resolution and composition of electronic document layout are provided. An intermediate text data structure may be generated to hold a “resolved” rich text state for a given document. Properties contained in the “resolved” rich text state are a composite of all relevant properties including user defined and entered properties and including properties associated with the document according to a pre-built document context. This text body resolution process then may be utilized for generating a composite text layout for the text streams associated with a plurality of document components for generating a single rich text stream for presentation to and editing by a user.

8108777, Jan 31, 2012

Aug 11, 2008

12/189583

Nathan Penner - Mountain View CA, US
Shawn Villaron - San Jose CA, US
Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00

715730, 715731, 715732

In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation. In addition to the slides associated with each section, each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation. Because the values of the properties of the sections are user-definable, these properties may, in some implementations of these techniques, enable the author of the presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in presentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for navigation among slides in an authoring interface.

8286077, Oct 9, 2012

Dec 3, 2009

12/630133

Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Gilberto Aristides Apodaca Aragon - Hayward CA, US
Jeffrey Huang - Mountain View CA, US
Melissa Kristine Hunter - San Jose CA, US
Rebecca Meredith Loew - Mountain View CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

715255, 715229, 715234, 715239, 715249

Remote batch editing of formatted text may be provided. A request to edit a source document comprising text using a first markup language may be received. The source document may be converted to a second markup language and provided to the requestor. Changes to the converted document may be received and edit commands may be generated for those changes. The edit commands may then be applied to the source document.

8527609, Sep 3, 2013

Nov 4, 2010

12/939171

Jeffrey Huang - Mountain View CA, US
Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709219, 715229

A command stream is generated that includes serialized commands for editing a document. The command stream can be applied to a modified document to generate a single document that contains modifications to the document made using both a Web application and a client application. The command stream can also be utilized to recreate the edited state of a document following the disconnection from a Web application for editing the document, to load balance a server computer hosting the Web application even while editing sessions are in progress, to perform an upgrade of a server hosting the Web application while editing sessions are in progress, and for other purposes.

2007006, Mar 15, 2007

Jun 30, 2006

11/479983

Shawn Villaron - San Jose CA, US
Aleksandr Gil - Redmond WA, US
Dachuan Zhang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Jonathan Schoeller - Sunnyvale CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00

707101000

A transparent format can be used to store the content of shape objects so that documents authored by different types of applications can uniformly share information related to the shape objects. Shape objects comprise, for example, text runs that have properties such as font, style, color, size and the like. The shape objects can be hierarchically represented such that principles of object oriented programming can be applied to the text run properties. The transparent format allows enhanced control of information when the format is not, for example, in a proprietary binary format.