Patents by Inventor John Mark Miller

John Mark Miller 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: 20090167787
    Abstract: A system (and corresponding method) that can enhance a user experience by augmenting real-world experiences with virtual world data to is provided. The augmented reality system discloses various techniques to personalize real-world experiences by overlaying or interspersing virtual capabilities (and data) with real world situations. The innovation can also filter, rank, modify or ignore virtual-world information based upon a particular real-world class, user identity or context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven N. Bathiche, Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, John Mark Miller, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Boyd Cannon Multerer, James M. Alkove, Zachary Lewis Russell, Eric P. Wilfrid, Bret P. O'Rourke, Oliver R. Roup
  • Publication number: 20090171902
    Abstract: A system that can automatically capture life experiences of a user across a number of senses or perceptions is provided. Once the data is captured, it can be annotated and saved for subsequent playback. The innovation also enables the data to be synchronized to for playback, for example, audio can be time-synced to a corresponding video with a corresponding smell, etc. Still further, the innovation provides for controls that enable a user to adjust or select granularity for capture as well as playback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew B. MacLaurin, William T. Flora, Steven N. Bathiche, Boyd Cannon Multerer, John Mark Miller, Bret P. O'Rourke
  • Publication number: 20090088142
    Abstract: Personalization data such as settings and/or state is migrated across devices including mobile phones. Device personalizations are pushed to a cloud service or other mechanism for backup and subsequent transmission to other devices. The personalization data can later be employed to configure one or more other devices in the same manner as a first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Baribault, Larry A. Morris, John Mark Miller
  • Publication number: 20090089569
    Abstract: A system that facilitates different levels of operating system (OS) boot so as to provide users with rapid access to certain mobile device functionalities, security, applications, etc. is provided. An OS can be loaded in phases or stages commensurate with policies, preferences, actions, context, etc. Similarly, a particular OS or group of OSs can be loaded to address a particular scenario or requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory P. Baribault, Larry A. Morris, Shai Guday, John Mark Miller
  • Publication number: 20090005079
    Abstract: A system for dynamic content delivery is provided. The system includes a control component to determine location, preferences, and state of a user. A delivery component dynamically selects and provides content to the user as a function of the user's location, preferences, and state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin T. Shields, William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric P. Wilfrid, Nigel S. Keam, Steven N. Bathiche, Oliver R. Roup, Zachary L. Russell, Jon Marcus Randall Whitten
  • Publication number: 20090006369
    Abstract: A system that facilitates data presentation and management is provided. The system includes at least one database to store a corpus of data relating to one or more topics and a summarizer component to automatically determine a subset of the data over the corpus of data relating to at least one of the topic(s), wherein the subset forms a summary of at least one topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shai Guday, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, James Morris Alkove, Andrew David Wilson
  • Publication number: 20090006225
    Abstract: A system to facilitate royalty tracking is provided. The system includes at least one tag to identify a portion of a creative work. A distribution component tracks the portion of the creative work and a crediting component reports usage of the creative work when the portion is detected in a larger body of work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boyd Cannon Multerer, William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric Peter Wilfrid, Nigel Stuart Keam, Steven N. Bathiche, Oliver Roup, James Morris Alkove, Zachary Lewis Russell, Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Andrew David Wilson
  • Patent number: 6311058
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system by which information content data is delivered to a mobile device. The web content is divided into data and script information. The script information is used to operate on the data to render the data in a predetermined format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dave Wecker, Vinay Deo, John Mark Miller, David Tuniman, Michael J. O'Leary
  • Patent number: 6289464
    Abstract: A system and method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device includes powering a wireless receiver only from a battery of the portable computing device. Receiving wireless information and storing the wireless information in memory of the wireless receiver. The wireless receiver wakes up a processor of the portable computing device when the wireless information fills a threshold of the memory available in the wireless receiver. The wireless information is then transferred from the memory of the wireless receiver to the memory of the portable computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dave Wecker, John Mark Miller, Michael J. O'Leary, David Tuniman, Vinay Deo, Don Kadyk, Dennis Cronin