Patents by Inventor Kenneth Wolfe
Kenneth Wolfe 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).
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Patent number: 9317839Abstract: Linking data items describing a person into a single, unified contact entry without merging the data items. The data items include, for example, contact data, social network data, and other data describing the person. The contact entry is a single representation of the person that, in some embodiments, combines a plurality of personas of the person without merging the underlying data items. Metadata representing one or more contact entries is capable of being shared across a plurality of devices and applications such that a user is presented with a consistent contact list on different devices and from within different applications. In some embodiments, the user annotates one or more of the contact entries with notes or other data that is stored with the metadata.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chani Ayn Doggett, Gregory Alan Howard, Rebecca Anne Muraira, James Chun-Yuan Lee, Kenneth Wolfe, Naud Frijlink, Christer Garbis
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Patent number: 8880598Abstract: Architecture for a session lock and lobby feature in a distributed conferencing framework for a conferencing session. Under a lock scenario, once a user enters the session, the session can be locked to prevent other individuals from entering, even if the individuals were invited to the session. Locking can be accomplished manually by a session participant and/or automatically based on criteria. The lobby feature allows a session participant to be aware of users in the lobby and pending access to the session by providing notification and/or identification of the user attempting to gain access. The session leader can selectively allow access to the session. The architecture facilitates lock and lobby features in multiple identical, leaderless, conference servers which together form a distributed conferencing system. The lock and lobby features can employ media session protocols such as session initiation protocol (SIP) and centralized conference control protocol (C3P).Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dhigha D. Sekaran, Kenneth Wolfe, Doug Wyatt
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Patent number: 8300557Abstract: Architecture that facilitates management and control of sidebar sessions (or breakout rooms) in a distributed conferencing environment. Distributed frontends (or MCUs) are provided for multi-party access into a main conferencing session. In one implementation, the main session can then be partitioned to provide one or more sidebar sessions for side conferencing. The sidebar sessions can all be contained on a single MCU or distributed across multiple MCUs. The leader of the main session can then freely roam among the sidebar sessions of a single MCU or among the sessions on the distributed MCUs. The protocol can be SIP-based, and also or alternatively use C3P commands for creating (or adding) a sidebar session, modifying the sidebar, moving users to and from a sidebar, and deleting the sidebar session.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dhigha D. Sekaran, Kenneth Wolfe, Doug Wyatt
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Publication number: 20120089644Abstract: Linking data items describing a person into a single, unified contact entry without merging the data items. The data items include, for example, contact data, social network data, and other data describing the person. The contact entry is a single representation of the person that, in some embodiments, combines a plurality of personas of the person without merging the underlying data items. Metadata representing one or more contact entries is capable of being shared across a plurality of devices and applications such that a user is presented with a consistent contact list on different devices and from within different applications. In some embodiments, the user annotates one or more of the contact entries with notes or other data that is stored with the metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Chani Ayn Doggett, Gregory Alan Howard, Rebecca Anne Muraira, James Chun-Yuan Lee, Kenneth Wolfe, Naud Frijlink, Christer Garbis
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Patent number: 7664870Abstract: A method for providing a low fidelity alternative until a high fidelity experience becomes available is provided. Upon detecting a need to download data, a download manager determines a download priority for downloading the data. The download priority specifies an amount of a low fidelity representation of data to download prior to downloading a high fidelity representation of the same data and any remaining low fidelity representation of the data simultaneously. The download manager then downloads, for example, from a content server, the low fidelity representation of the data and the high fidelity representation of the data according to the determined download priority, thus allowing the low fidelity representation of the data to be used until the high fidelity representation of the data is downloaded and becomes available.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Diane Baek, Peter W. Blois, Andrew Shebanow, Kenneth Wolfe
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Publication number: 20080267095Abstract: Architecture that facilitates management and control of sidebar sessions (or breakout rooms) in a distributed conferencing environment. Distributed frontends (or MCUs) are provided for multi-party access into a main conferencing session. In one implementation, the main session can then be partitioned to provide one or more sidebar sessions for side conferencing. The sidebar sessions can all be contained on a single MCU or distributed across multiple MCUs. The leader of the main session can then freely roam among the sidebar sessions of a single MCU or among the sessions on the distributed MCUs. The protocol can be SIP-based, and also or alternatively use C3P commands for creating (or adding) a sidebar session, modifying the sidebar, moving users to and from a sidebar, and deleting the sidebar session.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dhigha D. Sekaran, Kenneth Wolfe, Doug Wyatt
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Publication number: 20080256182Abstract: Architecture for a session lock and lobby feature in a distributed conferencing framework for a conferencing session. Under a lock scenario, once a user enters the session, the session can be locked to prevent other individuals from entering, even if the individuals were invited to the session. Locking can be accomplished manually by a session participant and/or automatically based on criteria. The lobby feature allows a session participant to be aware of users in the lobby and pending access to the session by providing notification and/or identification of the user attempting to gain access to the session. The session leader can selectively allow access to the session. The architecture facilitates lock and lobby features in multiple identical, leaderless, conference servers which together form a distributed conferencing system. The lock and lobby features can employ media session protocols such as session initiation protocol (SIP) and centralized conference control protocol (C3P).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dhigha D. Sekaran, Kenneth Wolfe, Doug Wyatt
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Patent number: 7364679Abstract: A method of venting a rotational mold at a predetermined condition by actuating an actuating venting assembly pierces the shell of the molded article and introduces a passageway to relieve pressure during the molding cycle. The actuating venting assembly enables a tactical methodology for venting such molds.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: David Wolfe Design IncInventors: David Kenneth Wolfe, Douglas Edward Pryor
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Patent number: 7114944Abstract: A method of venting a rotational mold at a predetermined condition by actuating an actuating venting assembly pierces the shell of the molded article and introduces a passageway to relieve pressure during the molding cycle. The actuating venting assembly enables a tactical methodology for venting such molds.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: David Wolfe Design, IncInventors: David Kenneth Wolfe, Douglas Edward Pryor
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Publication number: 20060195507Abstract: A method for providing a low fidelity alternative until a high fidelity experience becomes available is provided. Upon detecting a need to download data, a download manager determines a download priority for downloading the data. The download priority specifies an amount of a low fidelity representation of data to download prior to downloading a high fidelity representation of the same data and any remaining low fidelity representation of the data simultaneously. The download manager then downloads, for example, from a content server, the low fidelity representation of the data and the high fidelity representation of the data according to the determined download priority, thus allowing the low fidelity representation of the data to be used until the high fidelity representation of the data is downloaded and becomes available.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2005Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Diane Baek, Peter Blois, Andrew Shebanow, Kenneth Wolfe
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Publication number: 20030233396Abstract: A method and arrangement for providing buffering and real time storage of high-speed data stream from internetwork of Wide Area Networks (WAN), Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN), and/or Local Area Networks (LAN) is disclosed. The exemplary apparatus comprises one or more parallel bus interfaces from Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLD) to buffer memory. The network data stream is directed through the CPLD where data compression takes place. The compressed data is stored (buffered) in memory buffers. Each memory buffer is associated with a hard disk drive via a PCI-X bus I/O controller. When the memory buffer is filled, input from the data network is directed to another RDRAM memory buffer. The content of each filled memory buffer is written to the hard disk drive associated with that buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2003Publication date: December 18, 2003Applicant: Digital Software CorporationInventor: Paul Kenneth Wolfe
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Patent number: D675274Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Inventor: Christopher Kenneth Wolfe