Patents by Inventor Peter Blois

Peter Blois 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 providing users a lower fidelity alternative until a higher fidelity experience is available
    Publication number: 20060195507
    Abstract: A method for providing a low fidelity alternative until a high fidelity experience becomes available is provided. Upon detecting a need to download data, a download manager determines a download priority for downloading the data. The download priority specifies an amount of a low fidelity representation of data to download prior to downloading a high fidelity representation of the same data and any remaining low fidelity representation of the data simultaneously. The download manager then downloads, for example, from a content server, the low fidelity representation of the data and the high fidelity representation of the data according to the determined download priority, thus allowing the low fidelity representation of the data to be used until the high fidelity representation of the data is downloaded and becomes available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Diane Baek, Peter Blois, Andrew Shebanow, Kenneth Wolfe