Patents by Inventor Gordon Hardy
Gordon Hardy 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: 10817613Abstract: Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S. J. Kohlmeier
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Patent number: 10776501Abstract: A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services can include invoking a service to receive an entity determination based on the content and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object. The entity determination and corresponding entity container can be assigned as a marker to content being clipped. The marker can be used to enable access and actions that can be taken with respect to the clipping or the structured information augmenting the clipping.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S. J. Kohlmeier, Ian William Mikutel
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Patent number: 9811645Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Tianyu Xie, Scott Kurtzebom, Gordon Hardy, Sanjay Garg, Chad Shurtz, Karvell Li, Robert Donner
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Publication number: 20160034672Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Tianyu Xie, Scott Kurtzebom, Gordon Hardy, Sanjay Garg, Chad Shurtz, Karvell Li, Robert Donner
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Patent number: 9158900Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Tianyu Xie, Scott Kurtzebom, Gordon Hardy, Sanjay Garg, Chad Shurtz, Karvell Li, Robert Donner
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Publication number: 20150193605Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20150193607Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20150193606Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20150193897Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20150186625Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20150046493Abstract: Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S.J. Kohlmeier
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Publication number: 20150046827Abstract: A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services can include invoking a service to receive an entity determination based on the content and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object. The entity determination and corresponding entity container can be assigned as a marker to content being clipped. The marker can be used to enable access and actions that can be taken with respect to the clipping or the structured information augmenting the clipping.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S.J. Kohlmeier, Ian William Mikutel
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Publication number: 20150012447Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20150007340Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Patent number: 8832851Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
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Publication number: 20140068783Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Tianyu Xie, Scott Kurtzebom, Gordon Hardy, Sanjay Garg, Chad Shurtz, Karvell Li, Robert Donner
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Patent number: 8555402Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Tianyu Xie, Scott Kurtzeborn, Gordon Hardy, Sanjay Garg, Chad Shurtz, Karvell Li, Robert Donner
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Publication number: 20130198855Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for licensing applications using a preferred authorization process dynamically identified based on conditions associated with an initiation of an application. Authorization is then attempted using the preferred authorization process. In some examples, the preferred authorization process is selected from at least a keyless authorization process and a key-based authorization process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Akselrod, Tianyu Xie, Scott Kurtzebom, Gordon Hardy, Sanjay Garg, Chad Shurtz, Karvell Li, Robert Donner
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Patent number: 7788540Abstract: Computing environments, each executing at least one software program, are monitored for failures occurring during execution of the software program. Information associated with the failure, such as an identification of the software program and a failure type describing the failure, is recorded. The failure information is quantified to report the number of times the software program has failed or the number of times a particular failure has occurred. The quantified data may provide help in prioritizing what program or what failures merit investigation and resolution. Reports may be received from failing computing systems stopped at a state following the occurrence of the failure. In response, hold information is checked to determine whether to instruct the failing computing system to hold a state existing upon the occurrence of the failure.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Loren Merriman, Gordon Hardy, Curtis Anderson, Alan T. B. Brown, Richard Wright, Jared Wilson, Xun Zhang
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Patent number: 7673178Abstract: Break and optional hold preserves a state of a computing environment on which a software program has failed. Being able to examine the status of the environment existing upon the occurrence of the failure, including the condition of various processes and values facilitates resolution of the cause of the failure. Upon occurrence of a failure during the execution of a first software program in a first computing environment, execution of the first software program breaks. A first state of the first computing environment existing upon the breaking in execution of the first software program is then held. A failure notification is generated to signal the failure to a monitoring system. The monitoring system accesses hold information to determine whether the first computing environment should hold its current state and whether one or more other computing environments interacting with the first computing environment should also hold their states.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Loren Merriman, Gordon Hardy, Curtis Anderson, Michael Robinson, Dipak Boyed, Christopher Callahan