Patents by Inventor Geoffrey E. Pease

Geoffrey E. Pease 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).

  • Architecture and system for location awareness
    Patent number: 7536695
    Abstract: A location service and method provides a location aware computing device that is extensible by allowing different types of location awareness providers operate with the service. The method includes receiving a request for a location context, acquiring data associated with a current location from one or more location detection devices, reconciling the acquired data for any inconsistencies concerning the current location by applying either or both of a hierarchical and a metric process, and generating a location object accessible to applications. The service includes a location management component configured to route location data, a fuser engine configured to receive one or more location reports generated from the location data, reconcile conflicts between the location reports and generate a location object, and one or more location application programming interfaces (APIs) coupled to the location management component to transmit the location object from the fuser engine to an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Warren Vincent Barkley, Timothy M. Moore, Geoffrey E. Pease, Steven A. N. Shafer, Florin Teodorescu, Yinghua Yao, Madhurima Pawar, John C. Krumm
  • Architecture and system for location awareness
    Publication number: 20040193707
    Abstract: A location service and method provides a location aware computing device that is extensible by allowing different types of location awareness providers operate with the service. The method includes receiving a request for a location context, acquiring data associated with a current location from one or more location detection devices, reconciling the acquired data for any inconsistencies concerning the current location by applying either or both of a hierarchical and a metric process, and generating a location object accessible to applications. The service includes a location management component configured to route location data, a fuser engine configured to receive one or more location reports generated from the location data, reconcile conflicts between the location reports and generate a location object, and one or more location application programming interfaces (APIs) coupled to the location management component to transmit the location object from the fuser engine to an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Warren Vincent Barkley, Timothy M. Moore, Geoffrey E. Pease, Steven A.N. Shafer, Florin Teodorescu, Yinghua Yao, Madhurima Pawar, John C. Krumm