Patents by Inventor Paul L. Kollmorgen

Paul L. Kollmorgen 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).

  • Method and system for authoring a soundscape for a media application
    Patent number: 7039478
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for allowing a sound designer to design and implement interactive soundscapes based on existing waveform audio files, MIDI files, or audio streams. This is accomplished by using a set of tools consisting of an authoring tool for creating specifications of interactive soundscapes visually without having to write complex code, and a graph builder object that recreates the authored soundscape and interacts with it in real-time according to its specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Ledoux, Vinayak A Bhalerao, Paul L Kollmorgen, Robin L Goldstein
  • Handling collisions during synchronization of data between client and server computers
    Patent number: 7032033
    Abstract: Data stored on a server are synchronized with corresponding data on a plurality of client computers. To facilitate synchronization of the data, the data for a class of nodes on the server are provided with a version identifier (a serial number) that is incremented each time the data are modified on the server. During synchronization, the version identifier for the data stored on the client is transferred to the server, and the nodes stored on the client are updated by downloading nodes modified on the server since the last synchronization. Data on the client that have been modified are then uploaded to the server. Collisions between nodes of the data that have been modified on two different clients are detected, and a user is given an opportunity to resolve a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Ledoux, Paul L. Kollmorgen
  • Method and system for authoring a soundscape for a media application
    Publication number: 20040225389
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for allowing a sound designer to design and implement interactive soundscapes based on existing waveform audio files, MIDI files, or audio streams. This is accomplished by using a set of tools consisting of an authoring tool for creating specifications of interactive soundscapes visually without having to write complex code, and a graph builder object that recreates the authored soundscape and interacts with it in real-time according to its specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Ledoux, Vinayak A. Bhalerao, Paul L. Kollmorgen, Robin L. Goldstein
  • Method and system for authoring a soundscape for a media application
    Patent number: 6757573
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for allowing a sound designer to design and implement interactive soundscapes based on existing waveform audio files, MIDI files, or audio streams. This is accomplished by using a set of tools consisting of an authoring tool for creating specifications of interactive soundscapes visually without having to write complex code, and a graph builder object that recreates the authored soundscape and interacts with it in real-time according to its specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Ledoux, Vinayak A. Bhalerao, Paul L. Kollmorgen, Robin L. Goldstein