Peter D Wong

6377354, Apr 23, 2002

Sep 21, 1998

09/157604

Amanda Nguyen - Bothell WA
Ganesh Pandey - Kirkland WA
Alvin Scholten - Redmond WA
Zhanbing Wu - Bellevue WA
Eigo Shimizu - Seattle WA
Peter Wong - Woodinville WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

B41B 100

358 111, 358 115

A system and method of printing documents having merged text and graphics is presented which overcomes the Z-order problem of merging text and graphics on a raster printer and which enhances printing performance. The system and method analyze a location of the text and graphics elements to be printed to determine if and where any potential merging problems exist. In these regions, the system and method selectively redraws the text as part of the merged bitmap graphic. The remainder of the text on the document is printed with device resident fonts, either directly or through downloading the device font, if possible. This greatly enhances printing performance. If the text information is not supported or supportable by a device font, the text elements are drawn as bitmaps to be printed by the printer.

6476925, Nov 5, 2002

Dec 4, 2001

10/002803

Amanda Nguyen - Bothell WA
Ganesh Pandey - Kirkland WA
Alvin Scholten - Redmond WA
Zhanbing Wu - Bellevue WA
Eigo Shimizu - Seattle WA
Peter Wong - Woodinville WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06K 1500

358 113, 358 11

A system and method of printing documents having merged text and graphics is presented which overcomes the Z-order problem of merging text and graphics on a raster printer and which enhances printing performance. The system and method analyze a location of the text and graphics elements to be printed to determine if and where any potential merging problems exist. In these regions, the system and method selectively redraws the text as part of the merged bitmap graphic. The remainder of the text on the document is printed with device resident fonts, either directly or through downloading the device font, if possible. This greatly enhances printing performance. If the text information is not supported or supportable by a device font, the text elements are drawn as bitmaps to be printed by the printer.

6490051, Dec 3, 2002

Sep 21, 1998

09/157917

Amanda Nguyen - Bothell WA
Ganesh Pandey - Kirkland WA
Alvin Scholten - Redmond WA
Zhanbing Wu - Bellevue WA
Eigo Shimizu - Seattle WA
Peter Wong - Woodinville WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 312

358 115, 358 111, 358 113

A computer system and method for outputting printer commands to a printer in response to a print request from an application program are presented. The printer includes a device font whose characters are addressed for printing via a single, double, or n-byte code. The text data to be printed, however, utilizes the Unicode Standard to identify its characters. The system, therefore, includes a graphics device interface, which is compatible to read the Unicode data, to invoke the printer driver functions for controlling the outputting of the text data to the printer. A printer OEM supplied minidriver contains a characterization of the printer, including information identifying the device font resident in the printer and the code used to identify the individual characters of the font. A printer driver uses this information to translate the text data to be printed from the Unicode Standard to a code capable of selecting a device font provided character. This system and method greatly enhance printer performance by utilizing, to the maximum extent possible, printer resident device fonts.

6825941, Nov 30, 2004

Sep 21, 1998

09/157895

Amanda Nguyen - Bothell WA
Ganesh Pandey - Kirkland WA
Alvin Scholten - Redmond WA
Zhanbing Wu - Bellevue WA
Eigo Shimizu - Seattle WA
Peter Wong - Woodinville WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 312

358 115, 358 113

A modular Universal Printer Driver is provided which dramatically improves the extensibility of the driver architecture and the support for printer features. This driver operates in conjunction with OEM developed minidrivers which utilize the text based Generic Printer Description (GPD) format of the instant invention. The universal driver allows the GPD text based minidrivers to add and define new features introduced by the printer OEM. The universal driver also allows the GPD minidriver to modify, add, or replace the standard user interface provided by the universal driver. The universal driver and the text based GPD minidrivers are included in a computer system for outputting data to an output device, such as a printer. This system includes an application program which invokes a plurality of graphics device interface functions to control the sending of data to the printer. Within the system, a graphics device interface invokes device driver functions for controlling the outputting of data.

6919966, Jul 19, 2005

Oct 2, 2002

10/262831

Amanda Nguyen - Bothell WA, US
Ganesh Pandey - Kirkland WA, US
Alvin Scholten - Redmond WA, US
Zhanbing Wu - Bellevue WA, US
Eigo Shimizu - Seattle WA, US
Peter Wong - Woodinville WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F003/12
G06F013/00

358 113, 358 19, 358 115

A computer system and method for outputting printer commands to a printer in response to a print request from an application program are presented. The printer includes a device font whose characters are addressed for printing via a single, double, or n-byte code. The text data, however, utilizes the Unicode Standard to identify its characters. The system, therefore, includes a graphics device interface, which is compatible to read the Unicode data, to invoke the printer driver functions for controlling the outputting of the text data to the printer. A printer OEM supplied minidriver contains a characterization of the printer, including information identifying the device font resident in the printer and the code used to identify the individual characters of the font. A printer driver uses this information to translate the text data to be printed from the Unicode Standard to a code capable of selecting a device font provided character.

6975820, Dec 13, 2005

Feb 13, 2004

10/779515

Peter W. Wong - Woodinville WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G03G015/00

399 82, 399 83

A method for controlling a device capable of performing an operation in response to a job ticket includes comparing the job ticket with options within the capabilities of the device for fulfilling the job. One such device is a printer coupled to a computer for printing text and the like in accordance with such a job ticket. The job configuration and the options defining the plurality of operations preferably are stored in data structures, most preferably XML files validated under an XML schema defining options for a universe of similar operations. Each comparison of the job configuration with a device capability option results in a score. These scores are compared to obtain an optimal or preferred option which best approximates the job ticket within the capabilities of the device.

7079264, Jul 18, 2006

May 27, 2005

11/139333

Amanda Nguyen - Bothell WA, US
Ganesh Pandey - Kirkland WA, US
Alvin Scholten - Redmond WA, US
Zhanbing Wu - Bellevue WA, US
Eigo Shimizu - Seattle WA, US
Peter Wong - Woodinville WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/00
G06F 3/12
G06K 1/00

358 11, 358 19

A computer system and method for outputting printer commands to a printer in response to a print request from an application program are presented. The printer includes a device font whose characters are addressed for printing via a single, double, or n-byte code. The text data, however, utilizes the Unicode Standard to identify its characters. The system, therefore, includes a graphics device interface, which is compatible to read the Unicode data, to invoke the printer driver functions for controlling the outputting of the text data to the printer. A printer OEM supplied minidriver contains a characterization of the printer, including information identifying the device font resident in the printer and the code used to identify the individual characters of the font. A printer driver uses this information to translate the text data to be printed from the Unicode Standard to a code capable of selecting a device font provided character.

7092950, Aug 15, 2006

Jun 29, 2001

09/896499

Peter W. Wong - Woodinville WA, US
Amanda Gian-Tien Nguyen - Bothell WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 15/117

707100, 707 1, 709220

A method is provided for use in a computer system to describe and obtain arbitrary data relating to a subject. The method provides a meta-language “Generic Object Oriented Description of Structured Data (GDL)” and a Parser. GDL allows a user to organize, define and describe subjects through the use of a schema known as a Template. Templates can be used to define the semantics for each subject element as well as, to define how each element fits into a larger data framework. Through the concept of Inheritance, Templates can be extended and defined to various levels of nesting, while still having a common core of properties. GDL allows the features and attributes of a subject to be quickly and readily extended or modified by altering a source file. A GDL parser provides a structured and hierarchical representation of the information, validation of text-entry semantics and a means to traverse through information obtained from the source file.