Patents by Inventor J. Neely

J. Neely 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: 20240118061
    Abstract: Shaped charge devices, systems, and related methods of use. A housing sheet is configurable to form at least part of a shaped charge enclosure enclosing a shaped charge and biasing an explosion in a desired direction. The housing sheet can include one or more incisions in at least one surface thereof. The housing sheet can have at least one connection mechanism integrally formed therein, and the housing sheet can be configurable to form a plurality of sizes of shaped charge housing portions. The housing sheet can also provide for forming a plurality of dimensions of the shaped charge enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin C. Galloway, Kelsay E. Neely, Aimee J. Valles, Robert J. Clark, Jesse L. Frederick
  • Patent number: 9961042
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Publication number: 20170085521
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Patent number: 9515971
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Patent number: 9444751
    Abstract: Routing technologies are disclosed. A described technology includes routing packets through a network based on backpressure scheduling; when a number of packets in a transmitter queue satisfies a first threshold, retaining copies of at least a portion of the packets; and once the number of packets in the transmitter queue satisfies a second threshold, transmitting the retained copies of the packets to perform the routing. Retaining the copies can include copying a packet from the transmitter queue into a duplicate buffer when the number of packets in the transmitter queue is below the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Majed Alresaini, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Michael J. Neely
  • Publication number: 20160196832
    Abstract: A system for enabling a person to speak privately in a confined space having a plurality of listening zones includes a sound-generating unit, a person-detecting unit configured to detect a first location of the person within the confined space and to generate a first signal containing information indicative of the first location, and a processor operatively coupled with the sound-generating unit and communicatively coupled with the person-detecting unit. The processor is configured to obtain the first signal from the person-detecting unit, to identify a first listening zone of the plurality of listening zones where the person is located based on the first signal, and to control the sound-generating unit to emit the sound into a second listening zone of the plurality of listening zones. The sound is configured to render a conversation had by the person in the first listening zone substantially inaudible from the second listening zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: John W. Maxon, John J. Neely III
  • Publication number: 20160142348
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Patent number: 9210556
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Publication number: 20140066109
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Patent number: 8649808
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Patent number: 8417949
    Abstract: A protocol for total email and collaborative software (e.g., Exchange-brand server) session security. By way of example, securing the traffic between two servers within the same organization or cross organizations is critical to maintaining privacy of electronic data and communications. For example, securing communications between two Exchange-brand servers is particularly useful for individuals and organizations that routinely send and receive confidential information via electronic mail. It is important for the receiving side (server) to authorize the sending side (client) to send the information; the sending side should authorize the receiving side to receive information to prevent unauthorized information disclosure. The novel system and/or protocol disclosed herein can provide a mutually authenticated, authorized, and encrypted channel between two servers both within the same organization and across disparate organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Samuel J. Neely, Trevor Freeman
  • Publication number: 20120197759
    Abstract: A system for calculating and collecting taxes across different tax jurisdictions. The system receives payment information from an online retailer and uses the information to determine if a sales or use tax is owed. If a tax is owed, the system calculates the amount owed and the proper taxing authority to which the tax must be remitted. Upon determining the appropriate tax to be levied, the system provides a tax invoice to an online purchaser and directs the associated tax payment to the appropriate taxing authority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Aaron J. Neely, Jonathan Ruden
  • Publication number: 20100093379
    Abstract: A unified messaging system allows the receipt and sending of different messages across devices is established by creating relationships that leverage the capabilities of different devices. A message server establishes a relationship with a mobile device. Through the relationship, the message server can use the mobile device to send different types of messages that the server computer cannot transmit. A relationship between a client and a server extends this capability to the client. Through these relationships, a client can retrieve mobile device messages as well as generate them. The generated mobile device messages are transmitted to the message server. The message server determines that the received messages are mobile device messages that the server cannot deliver and sends the mobile device messages to the user's mobile device. The mobile device receives the mobile device messages from the message server and transmits the mobile device message to recipient mobile devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel J. Neely, John Allen Atwood, Harvinder S. Bhela, Selvaraj Nalliah, David. P. Limont, Katy Chen, Omar Aftab, Juan Vicente Esteve Balducci
  • Patent number: 7533148
    Abstract: A method that enables multiple spam detection solutions to be deployed in a manageable and rational manner to determine if a message is spam is presented. A framework invokes anti-spam filters to analyze the message and return confidence levels of whether a message is spam. The framework evaluates the highest confidence level against a set of defined thresholds. If the highest confidence level is greater than the highest threshold set by the administrator, the action specified for the highest threshold is taken. The highest confidence level is also compared against all thresholds and the action associated with the nearest threshold that has been exceeded is taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce A. McMillan, Andrew J. Wallace, Neil K. Koorland, Qiang Wang, Simon P. Attwell, Samuel J. Neely
  • Patent number: 7447744
    Abstract: A method that determines if a sender's message is to be sent to a recipient is presented. A challenge module analyzes the message and sends a challenge message to the sender if the sender is not in the recipient's address store. The challenge message includes a pseudo unique token for the sender recipient pair such that the sender must respond differently to each challenge message for a particular message. In one embodiment, the challenge message requires the sender to obtain a certificate from a certificate authority or a set of authorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Wallace, Neil K. Koorland, Erik Hedberg, Qiang Wang, Samuel J. Neely, Max G. Morris, Saeed Noursalehi
  • Publication number: 20070026753
    Abstract: Differential basis weight nonwoven webs and a process for producing the webs is disclosed. In particular, the webs contain areas of higher basis weight and areas of lower basis weight. For instance, in one embodiment, the higher basis weight areas and the lower basis weight areas form alternating columns. The webs can be made according to a spunbond process or a meltblown process using a thermoplastic polymer or an air laid process using pulp fibers. The nonwoven webs are particularly well suited for use in diapers and other liquid absorbent products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: J. Neely, Darryl Clark, Kurtis Brown, Michael Morman
  • Patent number: 7171450
    Abstract: A method that enables multiple spam detection solutions to be deployed in a manageable and rational manner to determine if a message is spam is presented. A framework invokes one or more anti-spam filters to analyze the message and return a confidence level of whether a message is spam and that confidence level is added to a summary of confidence levels. The framework evaluates a summary of confidence levels against a set of defined thresholds. If the summary of confidence levels is greater than the highest threshold set by the administrator, the action specified for the highest threshold is taken. Otherwise, subsequent filters are used to evaluate the message until either the maximum threshold is exceeded or all filters have evaluated the message. After all filters have evaluated the message, the summary of confidence levels is compared against all thresholds and the action associated with that matching threshold is taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Wallace, Neil K. Koorland, Qiang Wang, Samuel J. Neely, Simon P. Atwell
  • Publication number: 20040249901
    Abstract: A method that determines if a sender's message is to be sent to a recipient is presented. A challenge module analyzes the message and sends a challenge message to the sender if the sender is not in the recipient's address store. The challenge message includes a pseudo unique token for the sender recipient pair such that the sender must respond differently to each challenge message for a particular message. In one embodiment, the challenge message requires the sender to obtain a certificate from a certificate authority or a set of authorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Wallace, Neil K. Koorland, Erik Hedberg, Qiang Wang, Samuel J. Neely, Max G. Morris, Saeed Noursalehi
  • Publication number: 20040139165
    Abstract: A method that enables multiple spam detection solutions to be deployed in a manageable and rational manner to determine if a message is spam is presented. A framework invokes anti-spam filters to analyze the message and return confidence levels of whether a message is spam. The framework evaluates the highest confidence level against a set of defined thresholds. If the highest confidence level is greater than the highest threshold set by the administrator, the action specified for the highest threshold is taken. The highest confidence level is also compared against all thresholds and the action associated with the nearest threshold that has been exceeded is taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce A. McMillan, Andrew J. Wallace, Neil K. Koorland, Qiang Wang, Simon P. Attwell, Samuel J. Neely
  • Publication number: 20040139160
    Abstract: A method that enables multiple spam detection solutions to be deployed in a manageable and rational manner to determine if a message is spam is presented. A framework invokes one or more anti-spam filters to analyze the message and return a confidence level of whether a message is spam and that confidence level is added to a summary of confidence levels. The framework evaluates a summary of confidence levels against a set of defined thresholds. If the summary of confidence levels is greater than the highest threshold set by the administrator, the action specified for the highest threshold is taken. Otherwise, subsequent filters are used to evaluate the message until either the maximum threshold is exceeded or all filters have evaluated the message. After all filters have evaluated the message, the summary of confidence levels is compared against all thresholds and the action associated with that matching threshold is taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Wallace, Neil K. Koorland, Qiang Wang, Samuel J. Neely, Simon P. Atwell