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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:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2014
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen M. Danton, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Roberts, Bothell, WA (US);
Laurent Mollicone, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jordan Sehn, Redmond, WA (US);
Tad D. Price, Auburn, WA (US);
David K. Peck, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuri Rychikhin, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 17/30241 (2013.01); G06T 11/206 (2013.01);
Abstract
Visual landmarks are used to organize diagrams. Elements of a diagram can be arranged in accordance with configurable defined properties of visual landmarks to provide some degree of layout structure within the diagram. Users can customize visual landmarks to cause the visual landmarks to exhibit desired behavior.