Patents by Inventor Geir O. Martinsen

Geir O. Martinsen 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: 20120011014
    Abstract: Media purchase techniques are described. In an implementation, an indication is received that an item of media was successfully purchased through a single transaction that includes rights for access to the item of media in different forms that are optimized, respectively, for different classes of computing devices. Responsive to the receipt of the indication, the item of media is permitted to be streamed to at least one of the computing devices to enable output of the item of media for playback as the item of media is streamed and storage of the item of media to local storage of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott D. Stacey, Praveen Kumar Vemparala, Geir O. Martinsen, Robert N. Pulliam, JR., Uchechukwu U. Adegbite, Mark D. Schwesinger, August W. Hill, Zachariah G. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20110314416
    Abstract: Collected media content data is described. In embodiments, browsing inputs are received from a client device when a user interacts with the client device to browse media content available via the Internet. Media content data associated with the media content that is displayed for viewing at the client device can be collected, and media items that are associated with the media content data can be determined. Identifiers of the media items that are correlated with the user can be stored, and the identifiers of the media items then communicated to a media content playback device that is associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chad C. Gibson, Geir O. Martinsen