Patents Represented by Attorney Shook, Hardy and Bacon
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Patent number: 8255785Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a communication network having a plurality of communication devices capable of transferring content wirelessly. The communication network comprises at least two communication devices and a mediator. The first communication device receives streaming content. The second communication device receives content different from the content streaming to the first communication device. In turn, the mediator determines whether the streaming content should take precedence over the content different from the content streaming on the first communication device.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David W. Baumert, Flora P. Goldthwaite, Gregory L. Hendrickson, Jonathan Cluts
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Patent number: 8255827Abstract: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for interactively presenting features within the panes of a display area rendered in a GUI workspace are provided. Initially, a computing device memory is inspected to discover a profile that accommodates a user-visual pattern. When the profile is not discovered, a default page layout is retrieved and communicated to the display device for presentation within the display area. If the profile is discovered, commonly viewed screen locations, based upon a frequency of eye fixation upon each of the screen locations, are ordered. Contextually relevant features are selected for presentation within the display area. The selected features are ranked based on predetermined criteria and each associated with the commonly viewed screen locations by comparing the ranking with the ordering.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Manish Malik
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Patent number: 8251434Abstract: A vehicle door construction having a 360° grab handle includes a fastener cover that conceals a fastener hole in an A-surface of the vehicle door and which provides a buckling path for the 360° grab handle. An L-shaped cover and a fastener hole configuration is provided in the lateral A-surface to reduce stiffness in the region and to absorb side impact loads.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ian Brewster Hall, Srinivas Sanikommu, John Pinkerton
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Patent number: 8255262Abstract: The assessment of security risks associated with linear corridors, such as transportation corridors and utilities corridors, is provided. Initially, a site is selected for evaluation. Survey data and context sensitive information, such as demographic information, environmental information, corridor asset information, and the like, is collected for the site. Linear corridors are identified within the data, and critical assets within each linear corridor are also identified. Security risks associated with linear corridors may then be assessed using the survey data and context sensitive information. In addition, mitigation strategies, response strategies, and recovery strategies may be developed for the security risks assessed for the linear corridors.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: HNTB Holdings LtdInventors: Jeffrey L. Siegel, Charles H. Quandel, W. Robert Moore, Douglas Wayne Morrison, Glen Arthur Herman, Robert J. Marros, Michael Richard Ostrom
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Patent number: 8251629Abstract: A medication dispenser provides automation to the steps of locating and acquiring medications to be administered to a patient. The medication dispenser includes an enclosure providing a secure environment for storing medications in multiple sized medication-storage bins. The medication storage bins are hung in storage racks located within the enclosure. A robot system is also provided within the enclosure for moving bins between the storage racks and a medication dispensing area. The medication dispensing area includes doors configured to open to define an opening for passing a selected bin through the enclosure. In some embodiments, the doors provide a variable-sized opening and, in some instances, the opening matches the size of a bin containing medications selected for dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Edward J. Schifman, William A Bedore
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Patent number: 8251440Abstract: The multi-segmented headliner for a vehicle includes an elongated intermediate segment, an elongated first side segment, and an elongated second side segment. In one configuration the segments are separate and form the complete headliner on assembly inside the roof of the vehicle. In another configuration the segments are joined together in a single piece, with the side segments being movable relative to the intermediate segment. Both configurations permit the replacement of the headliner of a van or sport utility by moving the headliner either in separate segments, or folded if a single piece, through the opening defined by the rear door or liftgate of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Lara Daniv Zarewych, Jeffrey T. Baxter
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Patent number: 8250769Abstract: A distance indicating mechanism can be used in combination with a bow sight to quickly determine distances to targets from an elevated position. The distance indicating mechanism has a generally circular, fluid-filled tubular device with one or more adjustable indicators located thereon. The indicators are positionable to correspond with the fluid level in the tubular device to indicate the orientation of the mechanism when aiming at a known distance. Each indicator generally corresponds to a sight pin of a bow site that indicates a corresponding linear distance for which an arrow will be at a desired vertical position when shot by a bow operator.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Jerrmatt, LLCInventor: Jerry Edmundson
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Patent number: 8255873Abstract: A media and method for detecting third-party content in web pages is provided. Computer software operates on a server or a client-side computer to identify and analyze third-party links and contents in web pages to determine if a third-party content sill exists, is available, has changed, or disrupts a web browser. A third-party link or content can be removed, changed, or replaced. A user can be notified or given an option to handle changed third-party content. The server may remove the third-party link or content by changing an HTML file for the web page. The client-side computer may remove the third-party link or content by dynamically changing the rendered web page before it is displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ari Lazier, Hugh Williams, Nick Whyte
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Patent number: 8250092Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems directed to receiving search queries, retrieving documents, computing the number of categories to present for a given query, computing the number of results to show in each category, computing an ordering of categories, and for all the result pages beyond the first page employing user interface elements that optionally allow the user to quickly zoom in on a specific category and get more results belonging to that category.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rakesh Agrawal, Samuel Ieong
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Patent number: 8250481Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for presenting aspects of change associated with a geographic area that has been captured by high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Matthew Nicholas Klaric, Curtis Herbert Davis, Grant Jason Scott, Chi-Ren Shyu, Brian Christopher Claywell
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Patent number: 8250053Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for enhancing a search result snippet that is associated with a URL. Potentially descriptive terms of the URL are identified by reconciling multiple sources of terms related to the URL. One aspect includes comparing search terms of historically relevant queries to anchor text for the URL. The search result snippet might be intelligently enhanced by causing common terms to be visibly distinguished when the snippet is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Nicholas Eric Craswell, Nitin Agrawal, Amir J. Padovitz, Song Zhou
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Patent number: 8248944Abstract: Computerized methods, systems, and computer-storage media for establishing and managing a transmission control protocol (TCP)-based tunnel (“tunnel”) are provided. The tunnel spans between a data center and a private enterprise network and connects endpoints, of a service application, that reside in each location. During communication, the endpoints transmit data packets over one or more channels (e.g., higher-level channel and lower-level channel) that comprise the tunnel. Each of the channels supports reliability mechanisms (e.g., congestion-control mechanism and loss-recovery mechanism) integrally running thereon, for ensuring complete data-packet delivery. To prevent unwarranted performance degradation caused by duplicative efforts of reliability mechanisms, a fabric controller is employed to selectively disable one or more of the reliability mechanisms individually.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Deepak Bansal, Hasan Alkhatib
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Patent number: 8250518Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for defining a default handler software application in response to an event at a computer. An event, for example, a user opening a file with a specific extension or accessing a uniform resource locator (URL) with a specific protocol, may trigger the operating system to instantiate a user-level default handler program associated with the event type and the specific user. Users may define user-level default handlers through a centralized user interface maintained by the operating system. During the application installation process, an application may register lists of supported events that the application is capable of handling.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Edward B. Averett, Giles Edward Van der Bogert, Jerry K. Koh, Michael G. Sheldon, Zeke B. Odins-Lucas
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Patent number: 8250469Abstract: Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for document layout extraction are described. In embodiments, textual data in an electronic format is received and the textual data is converted from the electronic format to an independent interface format, the independent interface format including coordinates to one or more structural elements of the textual data. Further, in embodiments, a structure and layout analysis of the textual data is performed to generate a set of structure and layout information. Still further, in embodiments, the textual data and the set of structure and layout information is stored in an enriched interface format, the enriched interface format providing for search and navigation of the textual data.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Oren Trutner, Sasa Tomasevic, Aleksandar Uzelac, Dejan Lukacevic
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Patent number: 8244750Abstract: An inversion of the basic format of searching is provided herein. Instead of receiving a search query and providing web page results, a search engine receives a web page identifier as search input from an end user, determines related search queries for the associated web page, and provides the related search queries to the end user issuing the search. Related search queries for web pages may also be used to refine search engines performing the basic form of searching by facilitating the determination of web pages to index and the ranking of web pages as search results to user queries. Additionally, related search queries may be used in advertising revenue generation and sharing.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Krishna Chaitanya Gade, Srinath Reddy Aaleti, Nicholas Eric Craswell, Amit Prakash, Hugh Evan Williams
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Patent number: 8244812Abstract: A system, a method and computer-readable media for initiating the hosting of email for an Internet domain name. A secure communication channel is established with an entity requesting email hosting services. After verifying that the requesting entity is authorized to control the domain name, information describing email accounts with the domain name is received, and email services are provided for the email accounts.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Arnold Blinn, Cynthia Hagan, Don Gillett
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Patent number: 8243997Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for detecting change in a geographic area. One embodiment includes receiving a set of remotely sensed imagery that depicts the geographic area, automatically identifying changes in physical features of the geographic area by comparing, without user intervention, the set of remotely sensed imagery to a dataset of previously stored remotely sensed imagery that also depicts the geographic area, and deriving a change-quality measurement associated with the set of remotely sensed imagery, wherein the change-quality measurement quantifies a suitability of comparison of the set of remotely sensed imagery to the previously stored remotely sensed imagery.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Curtis Herbert Davis, Brian Christopher Claywell, James Michael Keller, Matthew Nicholas Klaric, Grant Jason Scott, Chi-Ren Shyu
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Patent number: 8244700Abstract: Systems and methods for performing an updating process to an in-memory index are provided. Upon receiving notice of document modifications covered by an inverted index associated with a search engine, in the form of an update file, a representation of the modification is published onto various index serving machines. Each index serving machine receiving the update file determines if the modifications are applicable to the index serving machine. If an index serving machine determines that it contains mapping information corresponding to the modified documents, the index serving machine utilizes the update file and associated mapping information to update an in-memory index. In embodiments, the in-memory index is used to provide results to user queries in tandem with the inverted index. In some embodiments, an extra in-memory index is maintained that is revised with constantly incoming metadata updates and the existing in-memory index is periodically swapped with the revised in-memory index.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Pratibha Permandla, Yinzhe Yu, Guarav Sareen, Abhas Kumar
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Patent number: 8244701Abstract: Systems and methods for applying user behavior data to improve search query result ranking are provided. Upon receiving an update file indicating that recent, significant user behavior data is available for a document associated with an inverted index, the update file is published periodically and frequently to an index server. After filtering out the relevant update information from the update file, the index server extracts identifiers of the documents having the associated user behavior data. The update file and the identifier of the documents are utilized to update an in-memory index containing representations of metadata indicative of the user behavior. The in-memory index is continuously updated and utilized to serve search query results in response to user search queries. Search query results from the in-memory index are ranked using the user behavior data prior to serving. Thus, results associated with recent, significant user-behavior metadata receive prominent placement on the search results page.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Walter Sun, Jay Kumar Goyal, Pratibha Permandla, Yinzhe Yu, Jingfeng Li
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Patent number: 8244740Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate providing suggested sites in accordance with target sites are provided. Web-browsed data is locally stored on a user device and uploaded to a suggestion engine. Additional web-browsed data is communicated to the suggestion engine via a suggested site request that provides a request for suggested sites related to a target site. In embodiments, the web-browsed data contained in the suggested site request includes data not previously uploaded to the suggestion engine. The suggestion engine utilizes the web-browsed data uploaded to the suggestion engine and the web-browsed data communicated via the suggested site request to provide suggested sites in association with the target site.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Richard J. Gruenhagen, Andrew P. Oakley, Maxim V. Stepin, Christopher A. Meyers, Srinath R. Aaleti, Jason A. Bolla, Nikolay A. Glushnev