Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Micosoft Corporation

Edward W Connell

Robert L Chambers

Ralph A Lipe

Philipp Heinz Schmid

Abhijit Sarkar

Jonathan Edgar Fay

John Bradstreet

Daniel Gwozdz

Steven Andrew Cover

John Bronskill

Ajai Sehgal

Tanuja Joshi

Alvy Ray Smith

Nicholas John Clay

The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects.

Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attributes

The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under one aspect of the invention, optional search attributes are used to order a list of references to found programming objects. Under a second aspect of the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects. Under a third aspect of the invention, different sets of object data are allowed to reference the same programming object class, and different objects of a single programming object class may be initialized in different ways so that they exhibit different attributes.

The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under one aspect of the invention, optional search attributes are used to order a list of references to found programming objects. Under a second aspect of the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects.

The present invention provides an application-independent and engine-independent middleware layer () between applications () and engines (). The middleware provides speech-related services to both applications () and engines (), thereby making it far easier for application vendors and engine vendors to bring their technology to consumers.

Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines

The present invention provides an application-independent and engine-independent middleware layer between applications and engines. The middleware provides speech-related services to both applications and engines, thereby making it far easier for application vendors and engine vendors to bring their technology to consumers.

An image processing application employs the concept of integral pre-multiplied alpha channel, and combines the techniques of multi-resolution representation, graph-structured representation, and automatic and intelligent data type conversion in order to permit a computer user to mix and manipulate both raster and vector based images in a single user interface while remaining unaware of the different data types underlying the images.

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Edward W Connell