Patents by Inventor J Adrian Lannin
J Adrian Lannin 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: 9684610Abstract: Platform neutral device protocol techniques are described in which functionality to customize device interactions through communication busses is made accessible through platform independent script-based infrastructure. Functionality provided by an operating system to manipulate standard protocols of a communication bus used to interact with a connected device is exposed as script-based objects. Script-based protocol definition files associated with connected device may be employed to customize device protocols for the communications using the functionality exposed through the script-based objects. A computing device may acquire a protocol definition file for a particular device in various ways and host the protocol definition file via a suitable run-time platform. Requests for interaction with the particular device may then be handled using the custom protocols defined by the hosted protocol definition file.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael P. Fenelon, Frank Gorgenyi, Justin A. Hutchings, Guillermo Eduardo Guillen, Herman Richard Forrest, III, J. Adrian Lannin
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Publication number: 20170004096Abstract: Platform neutral device protocol techniques are described in which functionality to customize device interactions through communication busses is made accessible through platform independent script-based infrastructure. Functionality provided by an operating system to manipulate standard protocols of a communication bus used to interact with a connected device is exposed as script-based objects. Script-based protocol definition files associated with connected device may be employed to customize device protocols for the communications using the functionality exposed through the script-based objects. A computing device may acquire a protocol definition file for a particular device in various ways and host the protocol definition file via a suitable run-time platform. Requests for interaction with the particular device may then be handled using the custom protocols defined by the hosted protocol definition file.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael P. Fenelon, Frank Gorgenyi, Justin A. Hutchings, Guillermo Eduardo Guillen, Herman Richard Forrest, III, J. Adrian Lannin
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Patent number: 9411761Abstract: Platform neutral device protocol techniques are described in which functionality to customize device interactions through communication busses is made accessible through platform independent script-based infrastructure. Functionality provided by an operating system to manipulate standard protocols of a communication bus used to interact with a connected device is exposed as script-based objects. Script-based protocol definition files associated with connected device may be employed to customize device protocols for the communications using the functionality exposed through the script-based objects. A computing device may acquire a protocol definition file for a particular device in various ways and host the protocol definition file via a suitable run-time platform. Requests for interaction with the particular device may then be handled using the custom protocols defined by the hosted protocol definition file.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael P. Fenelon, Frank Gorgenyi, Justin Hutchings, Guillermo Eduardo Guillen, Herman Richard Forrest, J. Adrian Lannin
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Patent number: 9311109Abstract: Device association data for peripheral devices, which is data used to connect to the peripheral devices, is maintained and synchronized across multiple computing devices associated with a user account on a service. When a new peripheral device is associated with a computing device, device association data for the new peripheral device is added to the computing device. The device association data for the new peripheral device is also sent to the service, which provides the device association to the other computing devices from which the user logs into his or her account, and those other computing devices in turn automatically associate themselves with the peripheral device. Device use data describing how a user desires to use the peripheral device on one computing device, as well as changes to the device association data on one computing device, can similarly be synchronized across the multiple computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Justin A. Hutchings, Erik O. Peterson, Arun Babu Nagarajan, Kyle P. Wojtaszek, J. Adrian Lannin, Robert F. Hain, Esaias E. Greeff, Niket A. Sanghvi, Samuel David Adams, David W. Duhon
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Publication number: 20150254081Abstract: Device association data for peripheral devices, which is data used to connect to the peripheral devices, is maintained and synchronized across multiple computing devices associated with a user account on a service. When a new peripheral device is associated with a computing device, device association data for the new peripheral device is added to the computing device. The device association data for the new peripheral device is also sent to the service, which provides the device association to the other computing devices from which the user logs into his or her account, and those other computing devices in turn automatically associate themselves with the peripheral device. Device use data describing how a user desires to use the peripheral device on one computing device, as well as changes to the device association data on one computing device, can similarly be synchronized across the multiple computing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Justin A. Hutchings, Erik O. Peterson, Arun Babu Nagarajan, Kyle P. Wojtaszek, J. Adrian Lannin, Robert F. Hain, Esaias E. Greeff, Niket A. Sanghvi, Samuel David Adams, David W. Duhon
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Patent number: 9032106Abstract: Device association data for peripheral devices, which is data used to connect to the peripheral devices, is maintained and synchronized across multiple computing devices associated with a user account on a service. When a new peripheral device is associated with a computing device, device association data for the new peripheral device is added to the computing device. The device association data for the new peripheral device is also sent to the service, which provides the device association to the other computing devices from which the user logs into his or her account, and those other computing devices in turn automatically associate themselves with the peripheral device. Device use data describing how a user desires to use the peripheral device on one computing device, as well as changes to the device association data on one computing device, can similarly be synchronized across the multiple computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Justin A. Hutchings, Erik O. Peterson, Arun Babu Nagarajan, Kyle P. Wojtaszek, J. Adrian Lannin, Robert F. Hain, Esaias E. Greeff, Niket A. Sanghvi, Samuel David Adams, David W. Duhon
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Publication number: 20140359170Abstract: Device association data for peripheral devices, which is data used to connect to the peripheral devices, is maintained and synchronized across multiple computing devices associated with a user account on a service. When a new peripheral device is associated with a computing device, device association data for the new peripheral device is added to the computing device. The device association data for the new peripheral device is also sent to the service, which provides the device association to the other computing devices from which the user logs into his or her account, and those other computing devices in turn automatically associate themselves with the peripheral device. Device use data describing how a user desires to use the peripheral device on one computing device, as well as changes to the device association data on one computing device, can similarly be synchronized across the multiple computing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Justin A. Hutchings, Erik O. Peterson, Arun Babu Nagarajan, Kyle P. Wojtaszek, J. Adrian Lannin, Robert F. Hain, Esaias E. Greeff, Niket A. Sanghvi, Samuel David Adams, David W. Duhon
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Publication number: 20130346654Abstract: Platform neutral device protocol techniques are described in which functionality to customize device interactions through communication busses is made accessible through platform independent script-based infrastructure. Functionality provided by an operating system to manipulate standard protocols of a communication bus used to interact with a connected device is exposed as script-based objects. Script-based protocol definition files associated with connected device may be employed to customize device protocols for the communications using the functionality exposed through the script-based objects. A computing device may acquire a protocol definition file for a particular device in various ways and host the protocol definition file via a suitable run-time platform. Requests for interaction with the particular device may then be handled using the custom protocols defined by the hosted protocol definition file.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Michael P. Fenelon, Frank Gorgenyi, Justin Hutchings, Guillermo Eduardo Guillen, Herman Richard Forrest, III, J. Adrian Lannin
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Patent number: 8032661Abstract: In accordance with the automatic peripheral device sharing, a peripheral device that has been newly installed on a device is detected and is shared with one or more additional devices coupled to the device. A notification of the peripheral device is automatically published to the one or more additional devices. This notification includes an indication of how the one or more additional devices can access the peripheral device. Each of the one or more additional devices can receive this notification and determine whether the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input. For each of the one or more additional devices, the peripheral device is installed on that device only if the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert J Anderson, Lindsey R Noll, Frank Olivier, J Adrian Lannin, Shawn E Maloney, Steve Seixeiro, Jerry Koh, Daniel J Oliver
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Publication number: 20090222592Abstract: In accordance with the automatic peripheral device sharing, a peripheral device that has been newly installed on a device is detected and is shared with one or more additional devices coupled to the device. A notification of the peripheral device is automatically published to the one or more additional devices. This notification includes an indication of how the one or more additional devices can access the peripheral device. Each of the one or more additional devices can receive this notification and determine whether the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input. For each of the one or more additional devices, the peripheral device is installed on that device only if the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Robert J. Anderson, Lindsey R Noll, Frank Olivier, J. Adrian Lannin, Shawn E. Maloney, Steve Seixeiro, Jerry Koh, Daniel J. Oliver