Patents by Inventor Ira L. Snyder
Ira L. Snyder 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: 9746912Abstract: Systems and methods that provide for a virtual reality entertainment system that supplies immersive entertainment and creates a sensation for a user similar to having guests in a remote location to be physically present as virtual guests. Such virtual reality entertainment system can supply a graphic and/or audio; wherein interconnected computers, video and audio processing devices, supply a live interaction between a user and a guest(s). Although guests are only present virtually (e.g., electronically present with other objects/user within the environment) such virtual invitation enables a user and guests to concurrently experience the entertainment together (e.g., a live sporting event, spectator game). In a related aspect, the subject innovation can implement holographic avatars, and a plurality of communication interfaces, to imitate (and/or transform) a relationship between the user and the virtual guests/surrounding environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Patent number: 9621687Abstract: The formation of a wireless device group for use in a computing environment involves establishing a wireless communication connection between a host wireless interface device and each of one or more dependent wireless interface devices, in which each dependent wireless interface device is configured to not directly communicate with a computing device. Another wireless communication connection is established between the host wireless interface device and the computing device when the host wireless interface device is within a host connection distance of the computing device. A further wireless communication connection can be established between the host wireless interface device and a second, different computing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael F. Koenig, Neil S. Fishman, Ira L. Snyder
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Patent number: 9253047Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). An interface component can receive a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification. A hydrate component can create a web application independent of a network service based at least in part upon the serialized data, the web application has state within the network service.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Debi Prasad Mishra, Amit Mital, Gary W. Flake, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Alexander G. Gounares, Ira L. Snyder, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
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Publication number: 20150373168Abstract: The formation of a wireless device group for use in a computing environment involves establishing a wireless communication connection between a host wireless interface device and each of one or more dependent wireless interface devices, in which each dependent wireless interface device is configured to not directly communicate with a computing device. Another wireless communication connection is established between the host wireless interface device and the computing device when the host wireless interface device is within a host connection distance of the computing device. A further wireless communication connection can be established between the host wireless interface device and a second, different computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Michael F. Koenig, Neil S. Fishman, Ira L. Snyder
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Patent number: 9129416Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards saving undo state information for a digital art program. Changed state data is computed (e.g., via GPU-side logic) based upon the state information of the current state of a canvas and the previous state information, e.g., via an XOR operation or parallel XOR operations. The changed state data is compressed into compressed state data, e.g., via run-length encoding, and the compressed state data is stored, e.g., in a circular buffer in GPU memory. For an undo command, the compressed data is decompressed into the changed state data, and the bitwise operation reversed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hans Thomas Landsberger, Subha Bhattacharyay, Gerard Zytnicki, Jeffrey Alan Herold, Christopher Shannon Lester, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., John Adam Szofran, Fan Zhang, Kaushik Barat
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Patent number: 9125027Abstract: The formation of a wireless device group for use in the shared resource computing environment involves establishing a wireless communication connection between a host wireless interface device and each of one or more dependent wireless interface devices, in which each dependent wireless interface devices is configured to not directly communicate with a computing device. Another wireless communication connection is established between the host wireless interface device and the computing device when the host wireless interface device is within a host connection distance of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael F. Koenig, Neil S. Fishman, Ira L. Snyder
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Publication number: 20140289663Abstract: A painting system is described herein for producing artwork. In one implementation, the painting system operates by receiving an input image of any type from any source. The painting system then imports the input image into a painting mechanism. Thereafter, the painting system allows a user to produce artwork by modifying the input image, as if the input image constituted paint that the user applied in manual fashion using the painting mechanism. This technology facilitates the production of artwork, as the user can leverage an already-existing image in producing the artwork.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Fan Zhang, John A. Szofran, Subha Bhattacharyay, Kaushik Barat, Ira L. Snyder, JR., Gerard Zytnicki, Christopher S. Lester, Nicholas R. Barling, Jeffrey A. Herold, Hans Thomas Landsberger
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Patent number: 8775677Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). An interface component can receive a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification. A hydrate component can create a web application independent of a network service based at least in part upon the serialized data, the web application has state within the network service.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Gary W. Flake, Alexander G. Gounares, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder
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Publication number: 20140132614Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards saving undo state information for a digital art program. Changed state data is computed (e.g., via GPU-side logic) based upon the state information of the current state of a canvas and the previous state information, e.g., via an XOR operation or parallel XOR operations. The changed state data is compressed into compressed state data, e.g., via run-length encoding, and the compressed state data is stored, e.g., in a circular buffer in GPU memory. For an undo command, the compressed data is decompressed into the changed state data, and the bitwise operation reversed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hans Thomas Landsberger, Subha Bhattacharyay, Gerard Zytnicki, Jeffrey Alan Herold, Christopher Shannon Lester, Ira L. Snyder, JR., John Adam Szofran, Fan Zhang, Kaushik Barat
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Publication number: 20140132619Abstract: A graphics system is described for simulating the interaction of two or more types of media on a simulated canvas. The graphics system performs this task by consulting a media adhesion matrix which determines a type of behavior that is produced when an attempt is made to add a new medium over the top of an existing medium. In one scenario, the new medium is a watercolor medium which does not apply over a hydrophobic media (such as an oil medium), but may tunnel under such hydrophobic medium in a flow layer during a simulation operation. Various provisions are also disclosed herein to improve the efficiency of the simulation operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hans Thomas Landsberger, Subha Bhattacharyay, Gerard Zytnicki, Jeffrey A. Herold, Christopher S. Lester, Ira L. Snyder, JR., John A. Szofran, Fan Zhang, Kaushik Barat
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Patent number: 8719143Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates preserving and maintaining data and/or services associated with a network service. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). An interface component can receive a termination notification related to the network service. An executor component can relocate at least a portion of one of data and a service associated with the terminated network service to a disparate replacement network service in order to preserve any services and/or data related therewith.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Gary W. Flake, Arnold N. Blinn, William J. Bolosky, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., David R. Treadwell, III
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Patent number: 8705746Abstract: A system that enables a cloud-based data repository to function as a secure ‘drop-box’ for data that corresponds to a user is provided. The ‘drop box’ can be facilitated through the use of cryptographic keying technologies. For instance, data that is ‘dropped’ by or on behalf of a particular user can be encrypted using a public key that corresponds to a user-specific private key. Thus, although the data resides within the large pool of ‘cloud-based’ data, it is protected since it can only be decrypted by using the private key, which is kept secret. The innovation can further facilitate user-centric secure storage by partitioning the cloud-based repository into multiple partitions, each of which corresponds to specific indexing criteria.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Raymond E Ozzie, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Alexander G. Gounares, Debi P. Mishra, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Publication number: 20140082174Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). An interface component can receive a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification. A hydrate component can create a web application independent of a network service based at least in part upon the serialized data, the web application has state within the network service.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Debi Prasad Mishra, Amit Mital, Gary W. Flake, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Alexander G. Gounares, Ira L. Snyder, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
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Patent number: 8656297Abstract: A computing device creates lightweight state files. The state files may include information relating to user processes, user-interface elements, and time points. When loaded, the state files restore the saved state. State files may be transferred to different computing devices thus making a computer state portable. A series of state files viewed as a stream showing changes in the system state over time.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael F. Koenig, Ira L. Snyder, Neil S. Fishman
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Publication number: 20130326381Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a digital art program, including user interfaces for user interaction with the digital art program. Described are interactive elements, tools, effects, features, commands and so forth for operating and experiencing the digital art program.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Charla Marie Pereira, Jeffrey Alan Herold, Gerard Zytnicki, Subha Bhattacharyay, Ira L. Snyder, JR.
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Patent number: 8601598Abstract: A system that enables a cloud-based data repository to function as a secure ‘drop-box’ for data that corresponds to a user is provided. The ‘drop box’ can be facilitated through the use of cryptographic keying technologies. For instance, data that is ‘dropped’ by or on behalf of a particular user can be encrypted using a public key that corresponds to a user-specific private key. Thus, although the data resides within the large pool of ‘cloud-based’ data, it is protected since it can only be decrypted by using the private key, which is kept secret. The innovation can further facilitate user-centric secure storage by partitioning the cloud-based repository into multiple partitions, each of which corresponds to specific indexing criteria.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raymond E Ozzie, William H. Gates, III, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Alexander G. Gounares, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Debi P. Mishra, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Patent number: 8595356Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). An interface component can receive a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification. A hydrate component can create a web application independent of a network service based at least in part upon the serialized data, the web application has state within the network service.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Gary W. Flake, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Alexander G. Gounares, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
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Patent number: 8474027Abstract: A user-centric or identity-centric resource licensing system that manages access to ‘cloud-based’ resources (e.g., applications and services) is provided. A ‘cloud’ refers to a collection of resources (e.g., hardware and/or software) provided and maintained by an off-site or off-premise party (e.g., third party), wherein the collection of resources can be accessed by an identified user via a network. In accordance with the user-centric licensing model, the resource license (and subscription) rights can migrate with a user without regard to physical location, device used, or other contextual factors (e.g., activity engaged). Effectively, the rights are mapped (and tracked) as a function of a user identity, which can be a core identity or an identity based upon activity engaged, role, capacity, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Lili Cheng, Nishant V. Dani, Daniel S. Glasser, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Patent number: 8402110Abstract: Remote provisioning of an IT network and/or associated services is provided. Hardware, software, service and/or expertise can be moved from on-premise to a remote location (e.g., central, distributed . . . ). Accordingly, at least a large degree computation can be moved to the center to exploit economies of scale, among other things. In such an architecture, computational resources (e.g., data storage, computation power, cache . . . ) can be pooled, and entities can subscribe to a particular level of resources related to a private entity IT network.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme, Lili Cheng, Nishant V. Dani, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Chandramohan A. Thekkath
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Patent number: 8341405Abstract: A system that can assist users to manage a personal active directory for all of their information maintained within a cloud-based environment is provided. The identity of a client that accesses data is monitored and recorded in a log. In turn, this information can be made available to the owner of the information in order to develop a desired access control list (ACL). Additionally, the system can employ a heuristic component that can automatically establish the ACL on the owner's behalf. As well, the system can track how information is being accessed (or attempted to be accessed) by other people therefore, giving the owner of the information the opportunity to restrict or allow access based upon any number of recorded factors (e.g., identity, context).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Lili Cheng, Daniel S. Glasser, Ira L Snyder, Jr., Melora Zaner-Godsey