Patents by Inventor Keith K. Lau

Keith K. Lau 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).

  • Methods and systems for end-user extensible electronic mail
    Patent number: 7461129
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a full-featured, individually customized email system by allowing end-users of an electronic mail system to extend standard electronic mail protocol for the creation of user-defined commands that are recognizable and executable by an electronic mail system and that can alter processing performed after a server accepts a piece of electronic mail. Routine events are raised during the communication of information and processing of data that give rise to the execution of registered commands. The commands are registered in an event-binding database and include standard commands and user-defined commands that are executed according to priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Milan M. Shah, Keith K. Lau, Jeffrey C. Stamerjohn
  • Media data protection with secure installer
    Patent number: 7451490
    Abstract: A data protection portion includes the file alteration checking portion. One aspect of the file alteration checking portion relates to a media including game content and a data protection portion. In one version, the data protection portion protects the game content from modification by determining whether the game content has been modified. If the game content has been modified, then the installation of the game content within the apparatus fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher M. Pirich, Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Jonathan E. Lange, Tracy Sharpe, Keith K. Lau
  • Methods and systems for end-users extensible electronic mail
    Patent number: 6999993
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a full-featured, individually customized email system by allowing end-users of an electronic mail system to extend standard electronic mail protocol for the creation of user-defined commands that are recognizable and executable by an electronic mail system and that can alter processing performed after a server accepts a piece of electronic mail. Routine events are raised during the communication of information and processing of data that give rise to the execution of registered commands. The commands are registered in an event-binding database and include standard commands and user-defined commands that are executed according to priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Milan M. Shah, Keith K. Lau, Jeffrey C. Stamerjohn
  • Managing access to content
    Publication number: 20040009815
    Abstract: Content access management allows a content request to be received from a device. In response to the content request, both an identifier of a source of the content and one or more keys that allow the device to decrypt the content are sent to the device. The device is then able to retrieve, as it desires, the content from the source and decrypt and use the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Banjamin O. Zotto, Steven D. Lamb, Boyd C. Multerer, Michio Nikaido, Keith K. Lau, Brent E. Curtis, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Van C. Van