Patents by Inventor Matthew R. Ayers

Matthew R. Ayers 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: 11272017
    Abstract: Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Brian K. McNeil, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic
  • Patent number: 9762518
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide session-based filtering to filter messages in a cooperative manner between a client and a service provider. In at least some embodiments, a service provider can establish a messaging session with a client and deliver messages to the client. The client can implement various client-side techniques to filter some of the messages based on various client designated criteria. The service provider can obtain feedback from the client indicative of one or more of the delivered messages that have been filtered. The service provider can dynamically create a session-based list based on the feedback and use the list during the session to block messages on the server-side according to the client designated criteria. When the session concludes, the session-based list can be discarded. In this manner, message filtering can occur without persistent storage of state data for the filtering at the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Woley, Gaurav S. Anand, Rajeev Dutt, Matthew R. Ayers, Darren Louie, George Joy
  • Publication number: 20170134354
    Abstract: This document describes various techniques for distributing credentials based on hardware profiles. A resource access request including a hardware profile is transmitted to a remote entity having access to a previous hardware profile and a credential useful to access a resource is received if at least a portion of the hardware profile matches the previous hardware profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Rajeev Dutt, Eric Fleischman
  • Patent number: 9553858
    Abstract: This document describes various techniques for distributing credentials based on hardware profiles. A resource access request including a hardware profile is transmitted to a remote entity having access to a previous hardware profile and a credential useful to access a resource is received if at least a portion of the hardware profile matches the previous hardware profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Rajeev Dutt, Eric Fleischman
  • Publication number: 20160080302
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide session-based filtering to filter messages in a cooperative manner between a client and a service provider. In at least some embodiments, a service provider can establish a messaging session with a client and deliver messages to the client. The client can implement various client-side techniques to filter some of the messages based on various client designated criteria. The service provider can obtain feedback from the client indicative of one or more of the delivered messages that have been filtered. The service provider can dynamically create a session-based list based on the feedback and use the list during the session to block messages on the server-side according to the client designated criteria. When the session concludes, the session-based list can be discarded. In this manner, message filtering can occur without persistent storage of state data for the filtering at the service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Woley, Gaurav S. Anand, Rajeev Dutt, Matthew R. Ayers, Darren Louie, George Joy
  • Patent number: 9225538
    Abstract: Stateless application notifications are described that enable third parties to provide messages to client applications. A communication channel can be established between a notification service and an application. Upon request, the notification service can generate obfuscated routing data for the channel, which can be in the form of a channel handle or token. The routing data can be encrypted and digitally signed to obscure the content and format of the routing data from third parties. An application service possessing the obfuscated routing data can package a notification with the data and send the package to the notification service for delivery. The application service does so without knowing the channel particulars encoded by the obfuscated routing data. The notification service that produces the obfuscated routing data can decrypt and interpret the data, and deliver the notification on the channel to an appropriate endpoint application on behalf of the application service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: George Joy, Cheuk Wan William Lau, Darren Louie, Yosef Firstenberg, Ravikant Cherukuri, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand
  • Patent number: 9209993
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide session-based filtering to filter messages in a cooperative manner between a client and a service provider. In at least some embodiments, a service provider can establish a messaging session with a client and deliver messages to the client. The client can implement various client-side techniques to filter some of the messages based on various client designated criteria. The service provider can obtain feedback from the client indicative of one or more of the delivered messages that have been filtered. The service provider can dynamically create a session-based list based on the feedback and use the list during the session to block messages on the server-side according to the client designated criteria. When the session concludes, the session-based list can be discarded. In this manner, message filtering can occur without persistent storage of state data for the filtering at the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Woley, Gaurav S. Anand, Rajeev Dutt, Matthew R. Ayers, Darren Louie, George Joy
  • Patent number: 9124669
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable automatic cooperative logging of information associated with a connection between at least two computing devices. In some cases, a first computing device can automatically trigger logging on a second computing device upon detection of at least one scenario. Alternately or additionally, the second computing device can respond to the first computing device with additional and/or supplemental logging requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Darren Louie, Jeroen Vanturennout, Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Benjamin D. L. Stewart, Donovan P. Regan, George Joy, Matthew R. Ayers, Sachin Jagadish Patil, Basel Abdus Salam, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Kandarp Dinesh Jani
  • Publication number: 20150046829
    Abstract: Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Brian K. McNeil, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic
  • Patent number: 8893033
    Abstract: Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Brian K McNeil, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic
  • Publication number: 20140207855
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable automatic cooperative logging of information associated with a connection between at least two computing devices. In some cases, a first computing device can automatically trigger logging on a second computing device upon detection of at least one scenario. Alternately or additionally, the second computing device can respond to the first computing device with additional and/or supplemental logging requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Darren Louie, Jeroen Vanturennout, Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Benjamin D. L. Stewart, Donovan P. Regan, George Joy, Matthew R. Ayers, Sachin Jagadish Patil, Basel Abdus Salam, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Kandarp Dinesh Jani
  • Patent number: 8683263
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable automatic cooperative logging of information associated with a connection between at least two computing devices. In some cases, a first computing device can automatically trigger logging on a second computing device upon detection of at least one scenario. Alternately or additionally, the second computing device can respond to the first computing device with additional and/or supplemental logging requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darren Louie, Jeroen Vanturennout, Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Benjamin D. L. Stewart, Donovan P. Regan, George Joy, Matthew R. Ayers, Sachin Jagadish Patil, Basel Abdus Salam, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Kandarp Dinesh Jani
  • Publication number: 20140059664
    Abstract: This document describes various techniques for distributing credentials based on hardware profiles. A resource access request including a hardware profile is transmitted to a remote entity having access to a previous hardware profile and a credential useful to access a resource is received if at least a portion of the hardware profile matches the previous hardware profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Rajeev Dutt, Eric Fleischman
  • Patent number: 8621439
    Abstract: Modern application tracing techniques are described herein that enable dynamic logging of events declared in a static manifest. Various events for logging can be declared in a static manifest. The static manifest may then be compiled to translate the declared events into a library of corresponding functions that can be called by “modern” applications written using dynamic code. Calls made to these functions from dynamic code are converted to corresponding static events and forwarded to existing tracing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to handle logging of static events for “legacy” applications that use compiled code. In this manner, static functions that are compatible with tracing APIs can be created and called dynamically from dynamic code. This can occur without requiring administrative rights to install the code and while preserving existing features for legacy applications, such that a tracing log can include events from both modern applications and legacy applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael H. Krause, Zoran Dimov, Alex Bendetov, Haseeb Ahmed, Matthew R. Ayers
  • Patent number: 8572699
    Abstract: This document describes various techniques for distributing credentials based on hardware profiles. A resource access request including a hardware profile is transmitted to a remote entity having access to a previous hardware profile and a credential useful to access a resource is received if at least a portion of the hardware profile matches the previous hardware profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Rajeev Dutt, Eric Fleischman
  • Publication number: 20130067288
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable automatic cooperative logging of information associated with a connection between at least two computing devices. In some cases, a first computing device can automatically trigger logging on a second computing device upon detection of at least one scenario. Alternately or additionally, the second computing device can respond to the first computing device with additional and/or supplemental logging requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darren Louie, Jeroen Vanturennout, Gaurav S. Anand, Kevin Michael Woley, Benjamin D.L. Stewart, Donovan P. Regan, George Joy, Matthew R. Ayers
  • Publication number: 20130061046
    Abstract: Stateless application notifications are described that enable third parties to provide messages to client applications. A communication channel can be established between a notification service and an application. Upon request, the notification service can generate obfuscated routing data for the channel, which can be in the form of a channel handle or token. The routing data can be encrypted and digitally signed to obscure the content and format of the routing data from third parties. An application service possessing the obfuscated routing data can package a notification with the data and send the package to the notification service for delivery. The application service does so without knowing the channel particulars encoded by the obfuscated routing data. The notification service that produces the obfuscated routing data can decrypt and interpret the data, and deliver the notification on the channel to an appropriate endpoint application on behalf of the application service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: George Joy, Cheuk Wan William Lau, Darren Louie, Yosef Firstenberg, Ravikant Cherukuri, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand
  • Publication number: 20130061212
    Abstract: Modern application tracing techniques are described herein that enable dynamic logging of events declared in a static manifest. Various events for logging can be declared in a static manifest. The static manifest may then be compiled to translate the declared events into a library of corresponding functions that can be called by “modern” applications written using dynamic code. Calls made to these functions from dynamic code are converted to corresponding static events and forwarded to existing tracing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to handle logging of static events for “legacy” applications that use compiled code. In this manner, static functions that are compatible with tracing APIs can be created and called dynamically from dynamic code. This can occur without requiring administrative rights to install the code and while preserving existing features for legacy applications, such that a tracing log can include events from both modern applications and legacy applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael H. Krause, Zoran Dimov, Alex Bendetov, Haseeb Ahmed, Matthew R. Ayers
  • Publication number: 20120304117
    Abstract: Application notification tag techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Nazia Zaman, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic
  • Publication number: 20120304116
    Abstract: Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Brian K. McNeil, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic