Patents by Inventor Kenneth Fern

Kenneth Fern 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: 20140282248
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced views of information management applications. In an implementation, a suitable computing system or systems presents a link to a dynamic menu within a perspective of an active module of various modules in an information management application. In response to an indication of interest generated with respect to the link, the computing system presents the dynamic menu which includes various dynamic icons. Each of the icons provides update information and a link associated with a corresponding module of the various modules in the information management application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Brendan J. Reeves, Jason A. Cook, Kenneth Fern, Michael Anthony Faoro, Joseph P. McLaughlin, Jonathan David Friedman, Jasdeep Singh Chugh
  • Patent number: 8495155
    Abstract: Techniques are described that enable enterprise management of public instant message (IM) communications. When a user requests a connection with a public IM service, the connection request is redirected to a gateway server that is associated with a domain specified in the user's user ID. The gateway server acts as a pass through server between the user's IM client application and the public IM service. The gateway server may be configured to log IM communications in which the user participates. The gateway server may also be configured to control whether or not the user is able to participate in point-to-point communications through the user's IM client application. An enterprise routing server may also be implemented in a geo-distributed enterprise to route a redirected public IM connection request to an enterprise IM gateway server based on a geographic location associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan W. Battle, Kenneth Fern, Peter Ollodart, Austina M. De Bonte, Yikang Xu, Christer Lundin
  • Publication number: 20100162362
    Abstract: Techniques are described that enable enterprise management of public instant message (IM) communications. When a user requests a connection with a public IM service, the connection request is redirected to a gateway server that is associated with a domain specified in the user's user ID. The gateway server acts as a pass through server between the user's IM client application and the public IM service. The gateway server may be configured to log IM communications in which the user participates. The gateway server may also be configured to control whether or not the user is able to participate in point-to-point communications through the user's IM client application. An enterprise routing server may also be implemented in a geo-distributed enterprise to route a redirected public IM connection request to an enterprise IM gateway server based on a geographic location associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan W. Battle, Kenneth Fern, Peter Ollodart, Austina M. De Bonte, Yikang Xu, Christer Lundin
  • Patent number: 7673001
    Abstract: Techniques are described that enable enterprise management of public instant message (IM) communications. When a user requests a connection with a public IM service, the connection request is redirected to a gateway server that is associated with a domain specified in the user's user ID. The gateway server acts as a pass through server between the user's IM client application and the public IM service. The gateway server may be configured to log IM communications in which the user participates. The gateway server may also be configured to control whether or not the user is able to participate in point-to-point communications through the user's IM client application. An enterprise routing server may also be implemented in a geo-distributed enterprise to route a redirected public IM connection request to an enterprise IM gateway server based on a geographic location associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan W. Battle, Kenneth Fern, Peter Ollodart, Austina De Bonte, Yikang Xu, Christer Lundin
  • Patent number: 7647430
    Abstract: A robust device messaging framework is disclosed that enables a user to send commands to a device. A provisioning service is used to provision unique device identities and maps user web identities to device identities. The provisioning service also limits device per day provisioning attempts to limit denial of service attacks. A command service allows remote users to issue commands to a device, synchronize outgoing commands with incoming results, receive accurate feedback about whether a command was received, and maintain state information about the device. A device layer encrypts and stores device identities, authenticates itself with the command service, establishes a high-availability Internet connection to receive alerts that a command has issued, and reports results to the server-based command service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Norman N. Ng, Michael P. Hart, David M. Miller, Jonathan Wilkins, Kenneth Fern, Markham F. MacLin, Peter S. Ford, Scott D. Sanders, Walter VonKoch
  • Publication number: 20060161662
    Abstract: A robust device messaging framework is disclosed that enables a user to send commands to a device. A provisioning service is used to provision unique device identities and maps user web identities to device identities. The provisioning service also limits device per day provisioning attempts to limit denial of service attacks. A command service allows remote users to issue commands to a device, synchronize outgoing commands with incoming results, receive accurate feedback about whether a command was received, and maintain state information about the device. A device layer encrypts and stores device identities, authenticates itself with the command service, establishes a high-availability Internet connection to receive alerts that a command has issued, and reports results to the server-based command service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Ng, Michael Hart, David Miller, Jonathan Wilkins, Kenneth Fern, Markham MacLin, Peter Ford, Scott Sanders, Walter VonKoch