Patents by Inventor Brian King

Brian King 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).

  • Patent number: 8126912
    Abstract: A method for tagging content. The method includes receiving an initial metadata tag and associating the initial metadata tag with an object of an online repository. Based on the initial metadata tag, a metadata tag knowledgebase is accessed to derive at least one suggested metadata tag. A confirmation regarding the at least one suggested metadata tag is received and the suggested metadata tag is associated with the object. The object is then uploaded to the repository, and the metadata tag knowledgebase is updated to reflect tags associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian King, Anoop Gupta, Craig Bartholomew
  • Publication number: 20110314497
    Abstract: A hospitality media system includes a media system controller and a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms and coupled to the media system controller. Each room has one or more in-room media devices located therein for performing a media function. A connection port allows a user of a room to establish data communications between the media system controller and a guest device. The media system controller is coupled to the connection port and configured to catalogue guest content available on the guest device to thereby form a guest content list, associate the guest content with one or more associated rooms at least including the user's room, and perform the media function utilizing content selected from the guest content list only on the in-room media devices located within the one or more associated rooms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Peter Warrick, Brendan Cassidy, Brian King, Lea Lorenzo, Blake Read, Ian McBeth, Andrew MacMillan
  • Publication number: 20110314492
    Abstract: A hospitality media system includes a plurality of set-top boxes (STBs) coupled to a radio frequency (RF) coax network. Each STB has an identifier for identifying the STB. A content source broadcasts media content to the STBs utilizing the RF coax network and an update server distributes software data to the STBs. The software data causes a particular STB to perform a media function customized for the particular STB according to the identifier of the particular STB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Brendan CASSIDY, Gary Court, Lindsey Carriere, Brian King, Darren Ziebart, Michael McCarthy
  • Patent number: 8078760
    Abstract: A method for providing a digital asset to a remote recipient via a network. An unmodified digital asset is received in a native format, transformed into a derived digital asset having a non-native format, and offered to a remote recipient via the network. The method further includes sending the derived digital asset to the remote recipient in response to a request of the remote recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian King, Robert S. Dietz, Kathleen P. Mulcahy
  • Publication number: 20110302607
    Abstract: A hospitality media system includes a media system controller and a plurality of controllable devices operable by the media system controller, each of a plurality of rooms having one or more in-room controllable devices. A communication module performs data communications with a mobile device. An authentication module receives identification information from the mobile device, determines a registered room currently associated with the identification information, and includes in an authorized subset of the controllable devices for which the mobile device is authorized to operate at least the in-room controllable devices of the registered room. The media system controller operates the authorized subset of the controllable devices in dependence upon commands received from the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Peter Warrick, Brendan Cassidy, Brian King, Lea Lorenzo, Blake Read, Ian McBeth
  • Patent number: 8073705
    Abstract: Notification systems and methods are provided for identifying utility theft for an entity associated with a premise under a Continuous Service Agreement with at least one utility service provider, where utility service is never turned off such that the entity may legally use utility services while a premise is vacant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Blu Trend, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Anderson, Anthony Anderson, Rob Keith Johnson, Brian King
  • Patent number: 8063118
    Abstract: The invention relates to absorptive, crosslinked polymeric compositions that are based on partly neutralized, monoethylenically unsaturated monomer carrying acid groups wherein the absorptive, crosslinked polymeric composition further includes an antioxidant and is color stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Evonik Stockhausen, LLC
    Inventors: Iqbal Ahmed, Mirko Walden, Brian King, Scott J. Smith, Harald Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7957980
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying utility theft include a property management system operable to receive tenant data associated with a property. A service provider in communication with the property management system receives the tenant data from the property management system via a network such as the Internet, where the tenant data identifies a tenant responsible for payment of a utility service associated with a utility service account. The service provider, which may be a utility, compares the tenant data to utility data to determine if the tenant corresponds to a utility service account. A notification module provides one or more alerts identifying when the tenant fails to correspond to the utility service account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Blue Trend, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Anderson, Anthony Anderson, Rob Keith Johnson, Brian King
  • Publication number: 20110082570
    Abstract: Control systems and methods for controlling certain systems, devices, and apparatus are described. A control system may include a memory and at least one processor. The memory may be operable to store both a Foundation Fieldbus protocol that facilitates communication with one or more Foundation Fieldbus devices and a second protocol that facilitates communication with one or more control devices. The at least one processor may be operable to access both the Foundation Fieldbus protocol and the second protocol, and to control the one or more Foundation Fieldbus devices and the one or more control devices. A network may facilitate communications between the at least one processor and both the one or more Foundation Fieldbus devices using the Foundation Fieldbus protocol and the one or more control devices using the second protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul Oliver Caffrey, John Alexander Petzen, III, Dennis Brian King, Frank L. Kerr, III
  • Publication number: 20110076487
    Abstract: An optical compensation film composition is disclosed herein having a polymer film and a substrate, wherein the polymer film has a positive birefringence greater than 0.005 throughout the wavelength range of 400 nm<?<800 nm, the film having been cast from a polymer solution comprising a solvent and a polymer having a moiety of wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, substituted alkyl groups, or halogens, wherein at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is a fluorine atom, and wherein R is hydrogen or a substituent on the styrenic ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Zheng, Dong Zhang, Jiaokai Jing, Frank Harris, Brian King, Ted Germroth, Thauming Kuo
  • Publication number: 20110072170
    Abstract: A bi-endian multiprocessor system having multiple processing elements, each of which includes a processor core, a local memory and a memory flow controller. The memory flow controller transfers data between the local memory and data sources external to the processing element. If the processing element and the data source implement data representations having the same endian-ness, each multi-word line of data is stored in the local memory in the same word order as in the data source. If the processing element and the data source implement data representations having different endian-ness, the words of each multi-word line of data are transposed when data is transferred between local memory and the data source. The processing element may incorporate circuitry to add doublewords, wherein the circuitry can alternately carry bits from a first word to a second word or vice versa, depending upon whether the words in lines of data are transposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Brian King Flachs, Brad William Michael, Nicolas Maeding, Shigeaki Iwasa, Seiji Maeda, Hiroo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110009841
    Abstract: The invention relates to absorptive, crosslinked polymeric compositions that are based on partly neutralized, monoethylenically unsaturated monomer carrying acid groups wherein the absorptive, crosslinked polymeric composition further includes an antioxidant and is color stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Iqbal Ahmed, Mirko Walden, Brian King, Scott J. Smith, Harald Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7836222
    Abstract: An apparatus which uses channel counters in combination with channel count read instructions as a means of providing information that data in a given channel is valid or has not been previously read. The counter may also, in the situation of the channel being defined as blocking, be used to prevent the unintentional overwriting of data in a register used by the channel or, alternatively, prevent further communications with the device assigned to that channel when a given count occurs. Intelligent external devices may also use channel count read instructions sent to the counting mechanism for reading from and writing to the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Norman Day, Brian King Flachs, Harm Peter Hofstee, Charles Ray Johns, John Samuel Liberty
  • Patent number: 7816426
    Abstract: The invention relates to absorptive, crosslinked polymeric compositions that are based on partly neutralized, monoethylenically unsaturated monomer carrying acid groups wherein the absorptive, crosslinked polymeric composition further includes an antioxidant and is color stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Evonik Stockhausen, LLC
    Inventors: Iqbal Ahmed, Mirko Walden, Brian King, Scott J. Smith, Harald Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20100146687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved toilet dispensing devices for use in conjunction with a sanitary appliance, particularly a toilet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian King, Richard Koontz, Robert Zhong Lu, Tri Nguyen, Dana Moseson, Steven Wu
  • Patent number: 7680034
    Abstract: A redundant control system for controlling an electromechanical system is provided. The control system includes a first processor, a second processor, an input-output node, a first communication channel, a second communication channel, and a signal selector. The first and second processors have a control algorithm and state variables resident thereon. The first and second processors each generate an output signal based on the control algorithm, the state variables, and an input signal from the electromechanical system. The first communication channel communicates the input signal and the output signal between the first processor and the input-output node, while the second communication channel communicates the input signal and the output signal between the second processor and the input-output node. The signal selector communicates either the output signal from the first processor or the output signal from the second processor to the electromechanical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dennis Brian King, John N. Cunningham, Fred Henry Boettner, Mark E. Shepard
  • Patent number: 7668046
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for determining the position of a user interface mouse using time of arrival measurements. A transmitter transmits a signal to an array of receivers that are spatially separated from one another. The time difference of arrival for is found for each receiver relative to a predetermined reference receiver. Using the time difference of arrival (TDOA) of each receiver, the location in 3-dimensional space of each receiver, and the speed of sound the position of the transmitter in 3-dimensional space relative to the reference receiver may be found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Inventors: Christian Banker, Michael Cretella, Jeff Dimaria, Jamie Mitchell, Jeff Tucker, Brian King
  • Publication number: 20090327336
    Abstract: A method for tagging content. The method includes receiving an initial metadata tag and associating the initial metadata tag with an object of an online repository. Based on the initial metadata tag, a metadata tag knowledgebase is accessed to derive at least one suggested metadata tag. A confirmation regarding the at least one suggested metadata tag is received and the suggested metadata tag is associated with the object. The object is then uploaded to the repository, and the metadata tag knowledgebase is updated to reflect tags associated with the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian KING, Anoop GUPTA, Craig BARTHOLOMEW
  • Publication number: 20090300114
    Abstract: A computerized collaboration system includes a core corpus of community-communication modules. Each of the community-communication modules may be propagated to a syndicate of portals that subscribe to that community-communication module. Further, upon receiving an update to a community-communication module from a portal of a syndicate subscribing to the community-communication module, the community-communication module may be modified according to the update and an updated version of the community-communication module may be propagated to all portals of the syndicate of portals subscribing to that community-communication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian King
  • Publication number: 20090292625
    Abstract: A system and method for an interactive real-time online class is disclosed. In one embodiment a request to create a real-time online class may be received from an instructor. The instructor then provides class materials and the class can be indexed in a browsable or a searchable catalog of classes according to content. After the class is scheduled, the instructor can be sent a link to launch the real-time online class. In this way a student may use an online interface to browse or search the catalog of classes, request to attend the real-time online class, and then be provided a link to attend the real-time online class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian King, Thomas Reed Perham, Erik Torgerson, Craig Bartholomew