Patents by Inventor David Blyth

David Blyth 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: 9253127
    Abstract: A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Gourevitch, Wilbert De Graaf, David Blyth
  • Publication number: 20140372548
    Abstract: A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Gregory Gourevitch, Wilbert De Graaf, David Blyth
  • Patent number: 8805943
    Abstract: A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Gourevitch, Wilbert De Graaf, David Blyth
  • Publication number: 20130238719
    Abstract: A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Gourevitch, Wilbert De Graaf, David Blyth
  • Patent number: 5465846
    Abstract: A bag dispensing system has numerous thin plastic bags weakly attached together to form a bag pack, and a rack for supporting the bag pack and dispensing individual bags. Each bag has a tear-away release means which includes at least one centrally located opening for receiving a support finger of the rack, and is separated from an upper edge of the bag by a tear through portion. At least one pressure point is located adjacent the tear through portion. Each bag has a pair of opposed handles, each of which includes a flap-free opening for receiving a side support rod of the rack. The bag pack has successive overlying layers of thermoplastic film which form successive outside bag surface to outside bag surface contacts alternating with inside bag surface to inside bag surface contacts. Each layer of the bag pack is weakly joined to both adjacent layers without adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
    Inventors: David Blyth, David Granovsky, Greg Ledger, Bruce Smith