Patents by Inventor Andrew C. Glass
Andrew C. Glass has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8380130Abstract: Various embodiments relate to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew C. Glass, Christopher M. Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan, Craig S. Ranta
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Publication number: 20110319019Abstract: Various embodiments relate to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew C. Glass, Christopher M. Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan, Craig S. Ranta
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Patent number: 8036595Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices. Although configurations and/or other communications can be conducted through a medium such as the human body, the present invention can employ an initial touch to identify respective devices whereby other electronic configuration sequences commence without further device contact. Other aspects include chain touching between users and/or devices to facilitate contact between the devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew C. Glass, Christopher M. Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan, Craig S. Ranta
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Patent number: 7716585Abstract: A device discovery and presentation system. The architecture facilitates automatically sensing devices, ports, or other wirelessly identifiable entities by detecting such entities, and displaying a 2-D or 3-D representation of the relative location of such entities to a user via a display. The architecture may be controlled to detect such entities in a confined envelope of space for a specified distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Andrew C. Glass
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Patent number: 7684754Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices. Although configurations and/or other communications can be conducted through a medium such as the human body, the present invention can employ an initial touch to identify respective devices whereby other electronic configuration sequences commence without further device contact. Other aspects include chain touching between users and/or devices to facilitate contact between the devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew C. Glass, Christopher M. Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan, Craig S. Ranta
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Patent number: 7436300Abstract: Disclosed are a unique system and method that facilitate establishing and maintaining a secure connection between at least one wireless input component and a host (e.g., PC). The system and method involve the wireless input component broadcasting a message that can be “heard” by any potential host located within a given distance from the wireless input component. The message can indicate that the input component is available for use or pairing with a PC. PCs in the area can respond to the message by notifying the user that a wireless input component is available and by generating a random PIN. The PIN can be displayed to the user on the respective PC. The user can be prompted to enter the PIN using the wireless device. When a match between the user's response and the corresponding PC is determined, the two can be securely linked. In addition the invention provides support of wireless input devices at boot or start up.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew C Glass, Bernard J Thompson, Bradley L Fosdick, Chih Jen Wen, Christopher M Dreher, Doron J Holan, Firdosh K Bhesania, Gary M Rensberger, Peter E. H. Hauser, Randall E Aull
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Publication number: 20040248513Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices. Although configurations and/or other communications can be conducted through a medium such as the human body, the present invention can employ an initial touch to identify respective devices whereby other electronic configuration sequences commence without further device contact. Other aspects include chain touching between users and/or devices to facilitate contact between the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2003Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Andrew C. Glass, Christopher M. Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan, Craig S. Ranta
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Patent number: 6324546Abstract: Computer systems typically include many application programs which enable uses to perform a wide range of tasks. The application programs are generally stored on high-capacity memory devices, such as hard drives. Many of these high-capacity memory devices are slow relative to other components of computer system and thus noticeably reduce the overall performance, particularly during start of application programs. One way of improving performance is to organize application programs in memory devices so that often-used application programs are stored in areas that are faster to access or otherwise have less effect on computer performance. Unfortunately, there is no convenient way of keeping track of how often each application program is used. Accordingly, the inventors devised an operating system that logs, or records, certain information every time an application program is started. The log ultimately provides a convenient measure of how frequently application programs are used.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1998Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chong I. Ka, Andrew C. Glass