Patents by Inventor Mike A. Foster

Mike A. Foster 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).

  • System and method for resolving conflicts detected during a synchronization
    Patent number: 7584186
    Abstract: A system and method is described for resolving a conflict detected while synchronizing a first data object in a first store associated with a mobile device and a second data object in a second store associated with a server. Once the conflict is detected, properties of the first data object are compared with corresponding properties of the second data object. If the properties and the corresponding properties that differ are designated as mergeable properties, the properties and the corresponding properties are merged. Merging the properties involves sending a preferred state associated with each of the properties and the corresponding properties to the mobile device and the server for updating the first data object and second data object, respectively, when an initial state for the properties and the corresponding properties is different than the preferred state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James S. L. Chen, Stephen D. Flanagin, Mike A. Foster, Steven Miles, Brian Moore
  • System and method for resolving conflicts detected during a synchronization session
    Patent number: 6993522
    Abstract: A system and method is described for resolving a conflict detected while synchronizing a first data object in a first store associated with a mobile device and a second data object in a second store associated with a server. Once the conflict is detected, properties of the first data object are compared with corresponding properties of the second data object. If the properties and the corresponding properties that differ are designated as mergeable properties, the properties and the corresponding properties are merged. Merging the properties involves sending a preferred state associated with each of the properties and the corresponding properties to the mobile device and the server for updating the first data object and second data object, respectively, when an initial state for the properties and the corresponding properties is different than the preferred state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James S. L. Chen, Stephen D. Flanagin, Mike A. Foster, Steven Miles, Brian Moore
  • System and method for resolving conflicts detected during a synchronization session
    Publication number: 20030055825
    Abstract: A system and method is described for resolving a conflict detected while synchronizing a first data object in a first store associated with a mobile device and a second data object in a second store associated with a server. Once the conflict is detected, properties of the first data object are compared with corresponding properties of the second data object. If the properties and the corresponding properties that differ are designated as mergeable properties, the properties and the corresponding properties are merged. Merging the properties involves sending a preferred state associated with each of the properties and the corresponding properties to the mobile device and the server for updating the first data object and second data object, respectively, when an initial state for the properties and the corresponding properties is different than the preferred state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James S.L. Chen, Stephen D. Flanagin, Mike A. Foster, Steven Miles, Brian Moore