Patents by Inventor Bharat Shyam
Bharat Shyam 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: 8065673Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
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Patent number: 7640213Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing an automated and dynamically responsive infrastructure to support online subscription services. The system includes one or more components to coordinate and manage a plurality of services offered by multiple service providers. This can include automatically creating and managing billing accounts for customers subscribing to such services. At least one engine is provided to process multiple rules in response to subscription events that occur in connection with the services in order to facilitate service delivery. At least one rating processor is provided to process multiple rating rules in response to subscription events for currency and non-currency resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philip Peter Reunert, Jun Yin, Brett Adam Tanzer, Naveen Kachroo, Bharat Shyam, Darren Mitchell, Michael T. Daly, Todd D. Ostermeir, James Francis Gilsinan, IV, David John Brennan, Carol R. Rall, Ram Viswanathan, Murali R. Krishnan
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Patent number: 7493613Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2005Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
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Publication number: 20090024522Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing an automated and dynamically responsive infrastructure to support online subscription services. The system includes one or more components to coordinate and manage a plurality of services offered by multiple service providers. This can include automatically creating and managing billing accounts for customers subscribing to such services. At least one engine is provided to process multiple rules in response to subscription events that occur in connection with the services in order to facilitate service delivery. At least one rating processor is provided to process multiple rating rules in response to subscription events for currency and non-currency resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Philip Peter Reunert, Jun Yin, Brett Adam Tanzer, Naveen Kachroo, Bharat Shyam, Darren Mitchell, Michael T. Daly, Todd D. Ostermeir, James Francis Gilsinan, IV, David John Brennan, Carol R. Rall, Ram Viswanathan, Murali R. Krishnan
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Patent number: 7418426Abstract: The subject innovation relates to a system and/or methodology that provides an automated and dynamically responsive infrastructure to support online subscription services. The system coordinates and manages services offered by service providers. This can include automatically creating and managing billing accounts for customers. At least one engine is provided to process multiple rules in response to subscription events that occur in connection with the services to facilitate service delivery. At least one rating processor is provided to process multiple rating rules in response to subscription events.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philip Peter Reunert, Jun Yin, Brett Adam Tanzer, Naveen Kachroo, Bharat Shyam, Darren Mitchell, Michael T. Daly, Todd D. Ostermeir, James Francis Gilsinan, David John Brennan, Carol R. Rall, Ram Viswanathan, Murali R. Krishnan
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Patent number: 7216292Abstract: A system and method is provided for learning data values over time as they are entered by a user on a form such as a web page form. An Internet web browser can be modified to suggest previously used data values for any form field that is the same as or similar to a previously used form field. Application programs that use the web browser can gain access to previously used form field values even if they have no knowledge of the field names. Software in a web browser associates field names across different Universal Resource Locators (URLs), so that when a user enters a value into a field (e.g., username) at a first web site, that same value can be automatically suggested when the user displays a different form on a different web site that uses the same field name.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Erik J. Snapper, Julian P. Jiggins, Bharat Shyam, Hadi Partovi, Eric R. Berman, Steven J. Freedman, James E. Allard, Frank Z. Chang, Stephen P. Proteau, Clint C. Jorgenson
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Publication number: 20060070023Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2005Publication date: March 30, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
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Publication number: 20050144099Abstract: The present invention involves a system and method that facilitate a purchasing experience in part by consolidating any number of purchases and their respective charge amounts until the purchases or charge amounts reach a threshold level. The threshold level can be based in part on resources used (consumed or purchased) or on the corresponding monetary value. The threshold level can be determined based at least in part on several factors such as the type of resource being purchased, the volume of resources purchased at a time or over a period of time, customer's payment history, customer's usage history, feedback received from the customer's payment provider, the type of payment vehicle (e.g., credit card, stored value card), time of the purchase, etc. When the threshold is reached, payment is requested asynchronously. The customer's account can be suspended or cancelled if payment cannot be secured within a desired amount of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2003Publication date: June 30, 2005Inventors: Indrojit Deb, Stuart Marshall, Xingheng Wang, John Gallelli, Rangaprasad Narasimhan, Newton Sanches, Jun Yin, David Brennan, Bharat Shyam
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Publication number: 20040221289Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2004Publication date: November 4, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
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Patent number: 6745224Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1996Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
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Patent number: 5845084Abstract: Data requests (e.g., for a hyper text markup language document) made from a client application on a client computer connected to a computer network (e.g., the Internet) are often large. The data received by a client application is often received at a very slow rate due to network congestion and other factors. In addition, the data received may have references to embedded graphical images. If the data received does not contain the display dimensions of the embedded graphical images, then the data cannot be properly displayed until the dimensions of the embedded graphical images are known. When a data request is made, the data transfer rate is monitored. When the receive data transfer rate is slow, and the data contains an embedded graphical image of unknown dimensions, a small placeholder image is automatically displayed for the user instead of the actual data.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John P. Cordell, Benjamin W. Slivka, Christopher M. Franklin, Arthur E. Blume, Bharat Shyam