Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Michael Paul

Jeffrey Michael Paul 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).

  • Patent number: 7949625
    Abstract: Automated assistance is provided for managing rules and/or guidelines regarding the usage of branded content for a project, e.g., an advertising campaign, event, signage, decoration, and the like. One or more queries regarding the project are presented to the user. Based on the user's responses to the queries, branded content that is approved for the project's intended use(s) is automatically identified and made available to the user. The determination of which digitized content (media objects) to provide to the user is based at least in part on brand rules and/or guidelines that can be relatively static or dynamically updated by the current user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Corbis Corporation
    Inventors: Hans Alhden Brough, Jeffrey Michael Paul, Jonathan Frederick Schupp
  • Patent number: 7716661
    Abstract: A method and system for updating an OS of an embedded device. The embedded device provides its current OS version information to a mobile operation network via a SMS message. The embedded device can provide its current OS version information to a mobile operation network in response to a request from a mobile operator network that has implemented the SyncML specifications promulgated by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). The mobile operator network interacts with the datacenter to provide the embedded devices's current OS version and get the address of the image update. The mobile operator service sends the address to the embedded device via another SMS message. The embedded device downloads the image update using the RF link via a global packet radio service (GPRS) connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Paul, Yuguo Liu, Donghoon Park, Raymond Robert O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20080086439
    Abstract: Automated assistance is provided for managing rules and/or guidelines regarding the usage of branded content for a project, e.g., an advertising campaign, event, signage, decoration, and the like. One or more queries regarding the project are presented to the user. Based on the user's responses to the queries, branded content that is approved for the project's intended use(s) is automatically identified and made available to the user. The determination of which digitized content (media objects) to provide to the user is based at least in part on brand rules and/or guidelines that can be relatively static or dynamically updated by the current user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: Corbis Corporation
    Inventors: Hans Alhden Brough, Jeffrey Michael Paul, Jonathan Frederick Schupp