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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2004
Applicants:
Jordan L. K. Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Dart, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Linda I. Hong, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher A. Evans, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jingyang Xu, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jordan L. K. Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Dart, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Linda I. Hong, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher A. Evans, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jingyang Xu, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, system and medium suitable for rendering substantially instantaneously thumbnail data pre-cached in a volatile memory. The thumbnail data is rendered once an indicator or pointer is hovered over an icon that has associated thumbnail data stored in the volatile memory.