Patents by Inventor Jean Pierre De Vries
Jean Pierre De Vries 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: 10206065Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20180160268Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 9883343Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20170086026Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 9554250Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Inventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20160255476Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 9179261Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20140206400Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 8682302Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 8483670Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20130095859Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 8275361Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20100227594Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20100151842Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2010Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 7668537Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 7437683Abstract: An apparatus and method for presenting electronic documents to users in the form of immersive reading pages. Immersive reading pages mimic the presentation that is provided by printed paper documents. There are no traditional user interface features displayed to the user, yet the user has access to the enhanced functionality that can be provided by computer-implemented documents. In an illustrative embodiment, the user has access to intrabook (or inside-the-book), interbook (or outside-the-book) navigational features, and content interactive features, such as highlighting, annotating, drawing or looking up definitions or synonyms of words in the document. Enhanced functionality is transparently associated with elements on the immersive reading page such that the immersive reading page is without visible indicators of the association. A training mode for permitting the user to learn the transparent association behind the immersive reading pages provides visual guides to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John L. Beezer, William Hill, Leroy B. Keely, Darryl E. Rubin, David M. Silver, Susan D. Woolf, Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 7363008Abstract: The invention provides methods for autonomous detection and adaptation with respect to an interfering signal on a frequency channel to assist a wireless device on a wireless network in choosing an appropriate frequency channel. According to embodiments, a method determines an appropriate channel by first detecting whether there is an interfering signal on a frequency channel over the wireless network, then retrieving data from the interfering signal to retrieve protocol identification information. Prior to determining whether to transmit over the frequency channel, the method calls for determining whether the identified protocol of the interfering signal is a predetermined protocol.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amer Hassan, Paramvir Bahl, Jean Pierre de Vries
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Patent number: 6968179Abstract: An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people. The information service processes this people and place data to identify those of the listed people that are in the user's vicinity, and provide notifications and user-initiated search results informing the user such as via the user's personal communications/computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2000Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Patent number: 6928428Abstract: For distributed querying of confidential information, a querying data structure is constructed from the confidential information on the computer at which the confidential information resides. The querying data structure opaquely encapsulates queries on the confidential information as a set of query hashes and answer pairs. The querying data structure is distributed to other computers where the distributed query processing is to be performed. The query is performed on such other computers by hashing the query terms, using the resulting query hash as a look up index to the associated answer in the querying data structure, and acting on the answer. A strictly one-way hash is used to prevent recovery of the original inputs to the query hashes in the query data structure by reverse hash.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2000Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
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Publication number: 20020184153Abstract: The present invention involves a new system and process for allowing automatic disclosure of at least one common interest between at least two entities while keeping non-common interests undisclosed or secret from other entities. Further, unlike conventional schemes for disclosing or sharing common interests, such disclosure or non-disclosure of interests is accomplished in accordance with the present invention without the use of a third party, mediation, or trusted agent type application or process for comparing shared or common interests. Consequently, in accordance with the present invention, there is no database, application, process, etc. that is external to any entity to which the interests of that entity is disclosed or revealed for the purposes of determining whether any of the entities interests match those of any other entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventor: Jean Pierre De Vries