Patents by Inventor Gordon George Free

Gordon George Free 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: 10749701
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described here that identify meeting content. A meeting content determiner in a shared computing device identifies a group including two or more participants in a meeting, where at least one participant of the group is logged into an account associated with a meeting content determiner. Further, the meeting content determiner identifies content associated with the two or more participants, and accessible by the at least one participant logged into the account and displays indications of the identified content to one or more participants of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul C. Barr, Isaiah Ng, Alyssa A. Dunn, Kiran Kumar, Michael C. Hilsdale, Gordon George Free
  • Publication number: 20130054945
    Abstract: Automatically performing configuration or activation activities on a device. A method includes collecting at least one of operational or environmental information about a device. The at least one of operational or environmental information about a device is used to determining an anticipated usage of the device. Based on the determined anticipated usage, at least one configuration or activation action is performed putting the device into a normal use state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gordon George Free, Andrew William Lovitt