Patents by Inventor Garrett R. Vargas

Garrett R. Vargas 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).

  • Publication number: 20020099871
    Abstract: A SIM Manager is disclosed that accesses functionality contained within a GSM-type telephone SIM by combining functionality of a plurality of asynchronous RIL functions into a single synchronous application programming interface. A first dynamic link library receives a function call for performing a selected function from an application operating in a GSM-type telephone device. The first dynamic link library is preferably a stub dynamic link library to which applications link, links to the application and initiates a process thread corresponding to the received function call, thereby blocking all subsequently received calls until the received function call for the selected function is complete. A second dynamic link library contains at least one application programming interface corresponding to the selected function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Garrett R. Vargas, Alan W. Shen
  • Patent number: 6370566
    Abstract: The present invention includes a mobile device which provides the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device itself. The mobile device creates an object representative of the meeting request and assigns the object a global identification number which uniquely identifies the object to other devices which encounter the object. In addition, the mobile device in accordance with one aspect of the present invention provides a property in the object which is indicative of whether the meeting request has already been transmitted. In this way, other devices which encounter the meeting request are capable of identifying it as a unique meeting request, and of determining whether the meeting request has already been transmitted, in order to alleviate the problem of duplicate meeting request transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Discolo, Scott Skorupa, Salim Alam, Garrett R. Vargas, Dave Whitney, Bryce Ulrich, John I. Ferrell
  • Publication number: 20010054072
    Abstract: The present invention includes a mobile device which provides the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device itself. The mobile device creates an object representative of the meeting request and assigns the object a global identification number which uniquely identifies the object to other devices which encounter the object. In addition, the mobile device in accordance with one aspect of the present invention provides a property in the object which is indicative of whether the meeting request has already been transmitted. In this way, other devices which encounter the meeting request are capable of identifying it as a unique meeting request, and of determining whether the meeting request has already been transmitted, in order to alleviate the problem of duplicate meeting request transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: ANTHONY DISCOLO, SCOTT SKORUPA, SALIM ALAM, GARRETT R. VARGAS, DAVE WHITNEY, BRYCE ULRICH, JOHN I FERRELL
  • Patent number: 6208996
    Abstract: A system is provided for maintaining a notification database in a mobile device. A notification scheduling program is run at a predetermined time. The notification scheduling program is configured to obtain information indicative of a plurality of notifications to be presented in the future. The notifications which are to be presented within a predetermined time period are entered in the notification database. The notification scheduling program is scheduled to run in response to expiration of the predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ido Ben-Shachar, Scott A. Skorupa, Garrett R. Vargas, John I. Ferrell
  • Patent number: 5748512
    Abstract: An adjusting keyboard for a small, touch screen display for a personal digital assistant provides a system and method for selecting a character for entry when a key of the keyboard is struck off center. The system and method of the adjusting keyboard select the next character for entry from the keyboard based on the occurrence frequency of a predetermined number of previously entered characters and the distance the user has contacted the touch screen keyboard from the center points of proximate keys including the key actually contacted. Contact by the user within 0.2 of the key length from the center point of a key is considered a direct hit, and the character represented by that key is entered. For touch contacts beyond 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Garrett R. Vargas