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).

  • Patent number: 11209956
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, William Portnoy
  • Patent number: 10019834
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Fay, Mark Finch, Stephen Coy
  • Publication number: 20160103572
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, William Portnoy
  • Publication number: 20160093092
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Jonathan Fay, Mark Finch, Stephen Coy
  • Patent number: 9245020
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, Will Portnoy
  • Publication number: 20130159858
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, Will Portnoy
  • Publication number: 20110101214
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, C. James Morris, Stephen Coy, Evgeny Krylov, D. Westervelt Davis
  • Patent number: 7579589
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Stephen Coy, Stephen D. Kendig, C. James Morris, John A. Wright, Erkinjon G. Nazarov
  • Publication number: 20090189064
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Stephen Coy, Stephen D. Kendig, C. James Morris, John A. Wright, Erkinjon G. Nazarov
  • Patent number: 7399959
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, C. James Morris, Stephen Coy, Edward Bullister
  • Patent number: 7381944
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas B. Cameron, David B. Wheeler, Quan Shi, Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Stephen Coy, Gary A. Eiceman
  • Publication number: 20070283319
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: MZA Associates Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Coy, Gregory Gershanok, Ali Boroujerdi, Zane Dodson, Robert Praus
  • Publication number: 20070057939
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Georg Petschnigg, Ashesh Bakshi, Damien Berger, Matthew Kernek, Stephen Coy
  • Publication number: 20060222562
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, C. Morris, Stephen Coy, Edward Bullister
  • Publication number: 20050253061
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas Cameron, David Wheeler, Quan Shi, Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Stephen Coy