Patents by Inventor Stephen Coy
Stephen Coy 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: 11209956Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, William Portnoy
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Patent number: 10019834Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable media that allow real-time rendering while navigating virtually about or through a digital 3-D volumetric model. Examples provide techniques to facilitate real-time rendering while navigating through and around the 3-D volumetric model that can have many thousands of particles, where the particles can have emissive, occlusive, and translucent properties. Such complex particles of the 3-D volumetric model are presorted along predefined viewing directions in order to enable real-time rendering from when a navigation control has been entered. Presorting of data may be performed at a processing device(s) located across a public or private network from a user's device on which the real-time rendering is performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Fay, Mark Finch, Stephen Coy
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Publication number: 20160103572Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, William Portnoy
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Publication number: 20160093092Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable media that allow real-time rendering while navigating virtually about or through a digital 3-D volumetric model. Examples provide techniques to facilitate real-time rendering while navigating through and around the 3-D volumetric model that can have many thousands of particles, where the particles can have emissive, occlusive, and translucent properties. Such complex particles of the 3-D volumetric model are presorted along predefined viewing directions in order to enable real-time rendering from when a navigation control has been entered. Presorting of data may be performed at a processing device(s) located across a public or private network from a user's device on which the real-time rendering is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Jonathan Fay, Mark Finch, Stephen Coy
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Patent number: 9245020Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, Will Portnoy
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Publication number: 20130159858Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, Will Portnoy
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Publication number: 20110101214Abstract: A sample analysis apparatus and system including an ion inlet, an ion detector and an ion focusing assembly for converging a plurality of ion streams from the ion inlet into at least one focused ion stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, C. James Morris, Stephen Coy, Evgeny Krylov, D. Westervelt Davis
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Patent number: 7579589Abstract: An ultra compact ion mobility based analyzer in a multilayered chip assembly employing various features such as a ion flow generator to propel ions through an ion mobility based filter and, thereby, reduce analyzer size, cost, and power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Sionex CorporationInventors: Raanan A. Miller, Stephen Coy, Stephen D. Kendig, C. James Morris, John A. Wright, Erkinjon G. Nazarov
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Publication number: 20090189064Abstract: An ultra compact ion mobility based analyzer in a multilayered chip assembly employing various features such as a ion flow generator to propel ions through an ion mobility based filter and, thereby, reduce analyzer size, cost, and power requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2006Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATIONInventors: Raanan A. Miller, Stephen Coy, Stephen D. Kendig, C. James Morris, John A. Wright, Erkinjon G. Nazarov
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Patent number: 7399959Abstract: The invention provides, in various embodiments, systems and methods relating to enhancing the filtering and detection capability of ion mobility based systems by various techniques to counteract a charge buildup in the ion mobility based system.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Sionex CorporationInventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, C. James Morris, Stephen Coy, Edward Bullister
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Systems and methods for ion species analysis with enhanced condition control and data interpretation
Patent number: 7381944Abstract: The invention relates generally to ion mobility based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, to sample detection using enhanced condition control and data interpretation.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Sionex CorporationInventors: Douglas B. Cameron, David B. Wheeler, Quan Shi, Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Stephen Coy, Gary A. Eiceman -
Publication number: 20070283319Abstract: Reliable signaling between outputs and inputs is provided. Inputs and outputs are allowed to be mutable and thus can change. The change of an output affects inputs connected to it. Thus, when write access is requested for an output, a notification is sent to inputs connected to it. The change may be made and then write access may be released signaling that the change is completed. A notification that the change has been completed is then sent from the output to the inputs. This allows a user to know when exactly the change occurred and ended.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: MZA Associates CorporationInventors: Stephen Coy, Gregory Gershanok, Ali Boroujerdi, Zane Dodson, Robert Praus
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Publication number: 20070057939Abstract: A system combines 2D and 3D modeling in rendering shapes and includes: a 3D modeling factory to generate a 3D model of selected shape parameters or features; a front face factory to generate 2D text and text effects, and some 2D shape effects; a ground plane factory to generate effects that are rendered on a ground plane of a shape; and a rasterizer/compositing engine to combine 2D and 3D effects generated by the front face factory, ground plan factory, and the 3D modeling factory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Georg Petschnigg, Ashesh Bakshi, Damien Berger, Matthew Kernek, Stephen Coy
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Publication number: 20060222562Abstract: The invention provides, in various embodiments, systems and methods relating to enhancing the filtering and detection capability of ion mobility based systems by various techniques to counteract a charge buildup in the ion mobility based system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2005Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATIONInventors: Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, C. Morris, Stephen Coy, Edward Bullister
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Systems and methods for ion species analysis with enhanced condition control and data interpretation
Publication number: 20050253061Abstract: The invention relates generally to ion mobility based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, to sample detection using enhanced condition control and data interpretation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATIONInventors: Douglas Cameron, David Wheeler, Quan Shi, Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Stephen Coy