Mark J Peters

US Patent:

7801804, Sep 21, 2010

Filed:

Oct 10, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/974169

Inventors:

Mark E. Peters - San Francisco CA, US
Yinyu Ye - Menlo Park CA, US

Assignee:

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/10

US Classification:

705 37, 705 35, 705 36 R

Abstract:

A convex parimutuel call auction implemented at a central market organizer computer includes receiving orders from market participants, calculating a quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders, and communicating to the participants the calculated quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders. Each order includes a specification by a participant of contingent claims on outcomes of a future event, a limit bid price, and a limit bid quantity. The calculation involves maximizing an objective function given by an approximate profit to the market organizer plus a weighted logarithmic penalty function. Because the formulation is convex, the solution may be computed in polynomial time using standard techniques, such as a path-following algorithm.

US Patent:

7895531, Feb 22, 2011

Filed:

Jun 13, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/151686

Inventors:

Roland Radtke - Seattle WA, US
Jesse Clay Satterfield - Seattle WA, US
Jensen M. Harris - Kirkland WA, US
Mark A. Peters - Seattle WA, US
Deepak Menon - Redmond WA, US
Mark A. Ligameri - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715810, 715842

Abstract:

A floating command object is provided for offering a set of commonly or frequently used commands in close proximity to a selected text, data or other object in a document. When a given object is selected for editing, the floating object automatically displays near the object to allow easy selection of relevant commands such as formatting property commands. The object remains displayed to allow multiple command selections until it is closed by user action. If a mouse or touchpad pointer is moved away from the displayed object, the displayed object becomes increasingly translucent to visually deemphasize the relevance of the object to the new position of the pointer.

US Patent:

20110138273, Jun 9, 2011

Filed:

Feb 15, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/027289

Inventors:

Roland Radtke - Seattle WA, US
Jesse Clay Satterfield - Seattle WA, US
Jensen M. Harris - Kirkland WA, US
Mark A. Peters - Seattle WA, US
Deepak Menon - Redmond WA, US
Mark R. Ligameri - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/24

US Classification:

715256

Abstract:

A floating command object is provided for offering a set of commonly or frequently used commands in close proximity to a selected text, data or other object in a document. When a given object is selected for editing, the floating object automatically displays near the object to allow easy selection of relevant commands such as formatting property commands. The object remains displayed to allow multiple command selections until it is closed by user action. If a mouse or touchpad pointer is moved away from the displayed object, the displayed object becomes increasingly translucent to visually deemphasize the relevance of the object to the new position of the pointer.