Patents by Inventor Simon Peter Clarke
Simon Peter Clarke 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: 11455459Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Patent number: 10769115Abstract: The concepts relate to data handling, and more specifically to data handling scenarios where data is revised on one computer and stored on another computer. One example can obtain a set of blobs relating to revisions of a file. The example can determine a target size of datastore blobs. In an instance where a total size of the set of blobs is less than the target size, this example can aggregate the set of blobs into an individual datastore blob. Otherwise, the example can identify new or edited individual blobs of the set and aggregate the new or edited individual blobs into first datastore blobs. The example can also aggregate other individual blobs of the set into second datastore blobs.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Simon Peter Clarke, David Oliver, Andrew Watson, Ming-wei Wang, Steven Rayson
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Publication number: 20200057800Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Beckett BAILOR, Ethan Joseph BERNSTEIN, Mark Rolland KNIGHT, Christopher James ANTOS, Andrew Richard SIMONDS, Brian Michael JONES, Simon Peter CLARKE, Edgar Mark SUNDERLAND, David Benjamin ROBINS, Miko Arnab Sakhya SINGHA BOSE
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Patent number: 10394941Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Publication number: 20190146953Abstract: The concepts relate to data handling, and more specifically to data handling scenarios where data is revised on one computer and stored on another computer. One example can obtain a set of blobs relating to revisions of a file. The example can determine a target size of datastore blobs. In an instance where a total size of the set of blobs is less than the target size, this example can aggregate the set of blobs into an individual datastore blob. Otherwise, the example can identify new or edited individual blobs of the set and aggregate the new or edited individual blobs into first datastore blobs. The example can also aggregate other individual blobs of the set into second datastore blobs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Mitesh Pankaj PATEL, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha BOSE, Simon Peter CLARKE, David OLIVER, Andrew WATSON, Ming-wei WANG, Steven RAYSON
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Patent number: 10157186Abstract: The concepts relate to data handling, and more specifically to data handling scenarios where data is revised on one computer and stored on another computer. One example can obtain a set of blobs relating to revisions of a file. The example can determine a target size of datastore blobs. In an instance where a total size of the set of blobs is less than the target size, this example can aggregate the set of blobs into an individual datastore blob. Otherwise, the example can identify new or edited individual blobs of the set and aggregate the new or edited individual blobs into first datastore blobs. The example can also aggregate other individual blobs of the set into second datastore blobs.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Simon Peter Clarke, David Oliver, Andrew Watson, Ming-wei Wang, Steven Rayson
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Patent number: 9547635Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Publication number: 20160364199Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Patent number: 8990150Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Publication number: 20150067467Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Publication number: 20150026143Abstract: The concepts relate to data handling, and more specifically to data handling scenarios where data is revised on one computer and stored on another computer. One example can obtain a set of blobs relating to revisions of a file. The example can determine a target size of datastore blobs. In an instance where a total size of the set of blobs is less than the target size, this example can aggregate the set of blobs into an individual datastore blob. Otherwise, the example can identify new or edited individual blobs of the set and aggregate the new or edited individual blobs into first datastore blobs. The example can also aggregate other individual blobs of the set into second datastore blobs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Mitesh Pankaj PATEL, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha BOSE, Simon Peter CLARKE, David OLIVER, Andrew WATSON, Ming-wei WANG, Steven RAYSON
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Patent number: 8825594Abstract: Example systems and methods are directed at maintaining and retrieving presence metadata. One example method includes receiving a request from a first client to edit a document file, and sending short-term check out metadata to the first client to begin an editing session. The method also includes writing the transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache, wherein the presence of another transition ID in the cache indicates that a document has switched from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode. An example system includes a processing unit operative to receive a document, the document including short-term check out metadata indicating an editing session has begun, ping a cache to determine if another transition ID is stored in the cache, and send a transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache to switch from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan, Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Christopher J. Antos, Mark Rolland Knight, Andrew G. Carlson, Don Adam Hedgpeth, Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Andrew Sean Watson, Jonathan B. Bailor, Elena Petrova
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Patent number: 8744999Abstract: As changes are made to a document, each change may be assigned an extended identifier comprising a globally unique identifier (GUID) component and an integer component. Upon determining that the same GUID component is used in identifiers for multiple changes, the GUID component may be mapped to a range of indices. Each index of the range of indices may then be used to represent the same GUID component in each extended identifier.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Simon Peter Clarke, David Charles Oliver, Brent James Van Minnen, Miko Arnab S Bose
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Patent number: 8572030Abstract: Embodiments are provided for synchronizing file partitions utilizing a server storage model in a client-server computer network. Edits to content of an electronic document may be received at a client computer. The content may be included in a first partition of a file stored on a server computer. The first partition may include a first stream which includes the electronic document content. The file may include multiple partitions with each partition including one or more streams. The client computer may generate metadata in a second partition of the file. The metadata may be associated with the edits to the electronic document content in the first partition. The second partition may then be individually synchronized with the server computer to store the metadata. The first partition may then be individually synchronized with the server computer to store the edits made to the electronic document content.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab S. Bose, Xuelei Sun
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Publication number: 20130198155Abstract: As changes are made to a document, each change may be assigned an extended identifier comprising a globally unique identifier (GUID) component and an integer component. Upon determining that the same GUID component is used in identifiers for multiple changes, the GUID component may be mapped to a range of indices. Each index of the range of indices may then be used to represent the same GUID component in each extended identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Simon Peter Clarke, David Oliver, Brent James Van Minnen, Miko Arnab S. Bose
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Patent number: 8429753Abstract: Examples are related to systems and methods for controlling access to document files on a document server. One example system includes document files stored on a document server, at least one of the document files referencing a file lock, and a document access processing module. The example document access processing module includes a file sharing processing module that determines a coauthoring status of a software application of a client computer requesting access to the document file, and a file lock processing module that stores one or more file locks and that controls the setting and resetting of file locks. The example document access processing module uses the coauthoring status of the software application and the file lock status of a document file to determine whether a software application is permitted to have write access to the document file.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan, Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Christopher J. Antos, Mark Rolland Knight, Andrew G. Carlson, Don Adam Hedgpeth, Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Andrew Sean Watson, Jonathan B. Bailor, Elena Petrova
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Patent number: 8352418Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Publication number: 20120278276Abstract: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mark Rolland Knight, Christopher James Antos, Andrew Richard Simonds, Brian Michael Jones, Simon Peter Clarke, Edgar Mark Sunderland, David Benjamin Robins, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose
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Patent number: 8301588Abstract: A storage system according to one embodiment for managing a first file includes a blob storage and a handler. The blob storage may be configured to store data related to the first file temporarily. The handler may be configured to store in the blob storage any data related to the first file and received from an application. The handler also may be configured to transfer at least a portion of the data from the blob storage to persistent storage in response to a commit instruction received from an application or generated by the handler. The handler also may be configured to retrieve any portion of the data stored in the blob storage and to send the same to a requesting application in response to an access request.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Naresh Kannan, Simon Peter Clarke, Simon Skaria, Miko Arnab Sakya Singha Bose, Andrew Sean Watson, Mitesh Pankaj Patel
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Publication number: 20120254315Abstract: Example systems and methods are directed at maintaining and retrieving presence metadata. One example method includes receiving a request from a first client to edit a document file, and sending short-term check out metadata to the first client to begin an editing session. The method also includes writing the transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache, wherein the presence of another transition ID in the cache indicates that a document has switched from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode. An example system includes a processing unit operative to receive a document, the document including short-term check out metadata indicating an editing session has begun, ping a cache to determine if another transition ID is stored in the cache, and send a transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache to switch from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan, Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Christopher J. Antos, Mark Rolland Knight, Andrew G. Carlson, Don Adam Hedgpeth, Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Andrew Sean Watson, Jonathan B. Bailor, Elena Petrova