Patents by Inventor Nicholas Whyte

Nicholas Whyte 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: 20070088678
    Abstract: Architecture is provided for performing multimedia searches and returning media galleries, and then prominently displaying the galleries to a user. The disclosed innovation generates a gallery classifier and then displays found galleries to the user in a new and informative user interface. In one aspect, a system is provided that facilitates searching data for gallery pages. The system includes a gallery classifier that receives web data associated with web pages, and identifies identifying a web page as a gallery page during a search operation. The system also includes a gallery user interface that presents a gallery page and associated content as part of the search process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Julia Farago, Nicholas Whyte, Ramez Naam
  • Publication number: 20070083611
    Abstract: A contextual multimedia advertisement system and associated methods are disclosed. The architecture includes a component that determines content of a multimedia item, and a distribution component that facilitates presentation of one or more advertisements associated with the content. Additionally or alternatively, advertisement presentation, selection and/or generation can be based on context information pertaining to the item and/or end user as well as ratings influenced by advertisers, among other things. The one or more identified advertisements can be presented with the item at valuable points therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Julia Farago, Nicholas Whyte, Ewa Dominowska
  • Publication number: 20070005571
    Abstract: An image query system, and associated method and computer program product are disclosed that enhance and accelerate image-based querying. To this end, the present invention presents a digital image query with implict and explicit associated metadata and retrieval of visually similar images or other pertinent information from a large collection of images stored on local, networked, or web-linked repositories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brett Brewer, Eric Watson, Randall Macbeth, Nicholas Whyte
  • Publication number: 20060294223
    Abstract: A web accelerator reduces web latency experienced when retrieving and displaying content. The web accelerator includes an interceptor component, a resolver component, a predictor component and a tracer component. The interceptor component captures web requests. The web requests are tracked by the tracer component, which logs the web requests to generate a statistical model that reflects web browsing activity. The predictor component utilizes the statistical model to predict subsequent web requests, and the resolver component resolves hostnames specified in the subsequent web requests and pre-loads content specified in the subsequent web requests when there is a strong likelihood that a user is interested in the content specified in the subsequent web requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dane Glasgow, Jay Jacobs, Neel Murarka, Nicholas Whyte
  • Publication number: 20050055492
    Abstract: A method and system of reclaiming storage space in data storage systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a high water mark of a data container is adjusted after data in the data container is compacted. As a result, unused space in the data container can be reclaimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sujatha Muthulingam, Alex Tsukerman, Vishwanath Karra, Nicholas Whyte