David R Buerer, 49Woodinville, WA

7650345, Jan 19, 2010

Feb 28, 2005

11/068292

David R Buerer - Bellevue WA, US
Duncan M Lawler - Bothell WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

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

707100

In an electronic document such as a map, an entity lookup system associates primitive data with entity data though parallel or corresponding grids of a primitive quad-tree and an entity quad-tree. A key is assigned to grids in the primitive quad-tree in association to particular grids in the entity quad-tree.

2005020, Sep 15, 2005

Mar 15, 2004

10/800543

Yinghua Yao - Bellevue WA, US
Mohammad Alam - Redmond WA, US
Vivek Bhanu - Bellevue WA, US
Warren Barkley - Mill Creek WA, US
David Buerer - Bellevue WA, US
Denise Chen - Bellevue WA, US
Florin Teodorescu - Redmond WA, US
Mark Huyler - Kirkland WA, US
John Krumm - Redmond WA, US
Christopher Lang - Seattle WA, US
Tim McGrath - Redmond WA, US
Timothy Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Madhurima Pawar - Bellevue WA, US
Geoffrey Pease - Bothell WA, US
Steven Shafer - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F015/16

709217000, 455414200

A method, schema and computer system for a location service provides data structures that are extensible by allowing different types of location awareness applications to retrieve and deposit location data. The method includes providing an abstract location object arranged in a schema to enable servicing a received request for a logical location of an electronic endpoint; and arranging one or more location elements within the context of the abstract location object. The location elements are configured to act as peers relative to the logical location and each location element is configured to act as a proxy relative to any other location element within the abstract location object.

2007023, Oct 11, 2007

Mar 28, 2006

11/391045

Duncan Lawler - Bothell WA, US
David Buerer - Woodinville WA, US
Nikolai Faaland - Sammamish WA, US
Bryan Beatty - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G 5/00

345619000, 345629000

A system(s) and method(s) that facilitate managing regions of a gridded map. The regions maintain independent status and functionality while interfacing with one or more other installed regions. Grids duplicated between one or more regions do not consume system resources and/or are not removed if needed by at least one installed system. Grids are not duplicated between two or more regions and regions can be independently installed and uninstalled. The installed independent regions are maintained as a single file allowing seamless viewing between regions, which is facilitated at various levels of details.

2022024, Jul 28, 2022

Apr 14, 2022

17/721143

- Redmond WA, US
David Ross BUERER - Woodinville WA, US
Derek Richard WESTCOTT - Kirkland WA, US
Andrew Alan BELL - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC - Redmond WA

H04W 4/029
H04W 4/33
G06T 11/60
G06T 13/80
H04W 12/06

A computerized mapping system is provided, including a map server configured to, in a map serving phase, receive a request from a client device to view a portion of a map at least partially including a building for which an indoor map is available, at a requested level of detail that is outside a range for displaying the indoor map, and transmit a target tile with a prerendered bitmap image for the building, and a client-side renderable geometric element with a perimeter and a client-side renderable visual feature of the internal map feature of the indoor map selected according to a selection criterion set by an authorized user of the indoor map, to the client device for display.

2021040, Dec 30, 2021

Jun 30, 2020

16/917098

- Redmond WA, US
David Ross BUERER - Woodinville WA, US
Derek Richard WESTCOTT - Kirkland WA, US
Andrew Alan BELL - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC - Redmond WA

H04W 4/029
H04W 12/06
G06T 13/80
G06T 11/60
H04W 4/33

A computerized mapping system is provided, including a map server configured to, in a map serving phase, receive a request from a client device to view a portion of a map at least partially including a building for which an indoor map is available, at a requested level of detail that is outside a range for displaying the indoor map, and transmit a target tile with a prerendered bitmap image for the building, and a client-side renderable geometric element with a perimeter and a client-side renderable visual feature of the internal map feature of the indoor map selected according to a selection criterion set by an authorized user of the indoor map, to the client device for display.

2021013, May 6, 2021

Nov 1, 2019

16/672391

- Redmond WA, US
David Ross BUERER - Woodinville WA, US
Peiwei CAO - Bellevue WA, US
Florin SABAU - Bellevue WA, US
Jiangbo ZHANG - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC - Redmond WA

G06F 17/50
G06T 17/10
G06Q 10/06
G06T 19/00

A server system is provided that includes a platform server system configured to store platform map data that is geospatially referenced and includes building outline data for one or more buildings, and provide the platform map data to client computer devices. The server system further includes a tenant bounded server system including one or more processors configured to store building floorplan data for a tenant entity, and provide building floorplan data to client computer devices that are authenticated for the tenant entity. The one or more processors of the tenant bounded server system are further configured to receive a set of building floorplan data for a target building included in the platform map data, determine geospatial reference data for the set of building floorplan data by aligning the set of building floorplan data with building outline data of the target building.

2019026, Aug 29, 2019

May 14, 2019

16/412253

- Redmond WA, US
Brenton Gunning - Seattle WA, US
Daniel Dole - Seattle WA, US
Juan Pablo Candelas Gonzalez - Woodinville WA, US
Donald A. Barnett - Monroe WA, US
Romualdo Impas - Seattle WA, US
David Buerer - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 17/00
G06T 7/285
G06K 9/00
G06T 7/70
G06T 19/20
G06T 15/20

Architecture that enables the preservation of label readability in a scene (e.g., map, map tiles, graphical background, etc.) by way of label orientation relative to a fixed heading on a plane or curved surface. After identifying an initial fixed heading, movement of the camera (e.g., zoom-in, zoom-out, position change, etc.) in the scene along that heading without changing the camera heading as measured relative to a fixed point does not alter label orientation. In a mapping implementation, after identifying an initial fixed camera heading over terrain of the Earth, movement of the camera (e.g., zoom-in, zoom-out, position change, etc.) in the scene without changing the camera heading as measured relative to some fixed point does not change label orientation. The orientation of labels may be changed if the heading of the camera is altered, but this change is delayed until camera movement quiesces.

2019000, Jan 3, 2019

Sep 10, 2018

16/126948

- Redmond WA, US
David Buerer - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 7/50
G06T 17/05
G06T 15/00
G01C 21/36
G06T 19/00
G06K 9/00

Architecture that enables the drawing of markup in a scene that neither obscures the scene nor is undesirably obscured by the scene. When drawing markup such as text, lines, and other graphics, into the scene, a determination is made as to the utility to the viewer of drawing the markup with greater prominence than an occluding scene object. The utility of the markup is based on the distance of the scene object and markup from the camera. Thus, if an object that appears small in the scene and is in front of the markup, the markup will be drawn more clearly, whereas if the same object appears large in the scene and is in front of the markup, the markup is rendered faint, if drawn at all.