Patents by Inventor Richard Lloyd Hughes

Richard Lloyd Hughes 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).

  • Information sharing between images
    Patent number: 8788529
    Abstract: A content-based image retrieval technique for sharing image information between images. In the present image information sharing technique digital photographs containing relevant comments and links to web pages are supplied by a set of authors. A user of the image information sharing technique takes a digital picture of something that interests them, such as, for example, a poster, a product, a painting, and uploads it to an image information sharing server. The image information sharing technique then matches the photo to an image in an image information sharing database. The comments and web links associated with the matched photo are subsequently sent to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corp.
    Inventors: Charles Lawrence Zitnick, III, Richard Lloyd Hughes
  • SEAMLESS DATA COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE
    Publication number: 20100173585
    Abstract: A method of providing a seamless data communication experience across a presence aware device and an additional presence aware device is disclosed. A data communication experience may be transferred from a presence aware device to an additional presence aware device when a user selects to switch to an additional presence aware device or leaves the presence of the presence aware device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Candace J. Button, Robert Warren Gruen, Richard Lloyd Hughes
  • INFORMATION SHARING BETWEEN IMAGES
    Publication number: 20080209010
    Abstract: A content-based image retrieval technique for sharing image information between images. In the present image information sharing technique digital photographs containing relevant comments and links to web pages are supplied by a set of authors. A user of the image information sharing technique takes a digital picture of something that interests them, such as, for example, a poster, a product, a painting, and uploads it to an image information sharing server. The image information sharing technique then matches the photo to an image in an image information sharing database. The comments and web links associated with the matched photo are subsequently sent to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Lawrence Zitnick III, Richard Lloyd Hughes