Patents by Inventor Michael Patten

Michael Patten 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: 20070033109
    Abstract: Enabling the automatic identification of participants to a common event to enable data sharing between the participants. An event identifier embedded in the content data associates the content data with an event. A content data service maintains a list of event identifiers and a list of participants associated with each event. Each of the participants communicates with the content data service to identify the other participants. The participants communicate with each other to share content data from the common event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Patten, Ian Mercer
  • Publication number: 20060271855
    Abstract: Managing digital video files on a computer. A media file system object stores metadata representative of a video clip defined from a video file to be managed. A shell interface associated with an operating system of the computer exposes the object to enable management of the video clip directly via the operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Patten, Christopher Hugill, Ian Mercer, Randolph Oakley, Richard Qian
  • Publication number: 20060084283
    Abstract: A silicon nitride layer is deposited on a substrate within a processing region by introducing a silicon containing precursor into the processing region, exhausting gases in the processing region including the silicon containing precursor while uniformly, gradually reducing a pressure of the processing region, introducing a nitrogen containing precursor into the processing region, and exhausting gases in the processing region including the nitrogen containing precursor while uniformly, gradually reducing a pressure of the processing region. During the steps of exhausting, the slope of the pressure decrease with respect to time is substantially constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Ajit Paranjpe, Kangzhan Zhang, Brendan McDougall, Wayne Vereb, Michael Patten, Alan Goldman, Somnath Nag
  • Publication number: 20050188923
    Abstract: A substrate carrier for a parallel wafer processing reactor supports a plurality of substrates. The substrate carrier includes a plurality of susceptors, which may be thermal plates or annular rings that are arranged horizontally in a vertical stack. The substrates are mounted between pairs of susceptors on two or more supports provided around the outer periphery of the susceptors. The number of substrates mounted between each pair of susceptors may the same or different but is two or more between at least one pair of susceptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Cook, Ronald Stevens, Peter Schwartz, Cesar Tejamo, Vebjorn Nilsen, Gabriel Ormonde, Ajit Paranjpe, Somnath Nag, Michael Patten
  • Publication number: 20040054920
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to encoding and encrypting digital content, and distributing the encoded digital content to end users. A content provider creates or chooses a digital rights profile that is unique to a license server. The digital content is encoded and encrypted with the digital rights profile as portions of a streaming digital content are immediately received. The encoded digital profile is sent to an end user for rendering. The end user must have a license from the license server to decrypt the encoded digital content. Either the end user has a pre-existing license to decrypt, or must order a license to decrypt the received encoded and encrypted digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Mei L. Wilson, Krishnamurthy Ganesan, Richard W. Saunders, Pratul Dublish, Brian D. Crites, Michael Patten, James M. Alkove