Patents by Inventor Robert Marcus Girling

Robert Marcus Girling 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).

  • Patent number: 9521732
    Abstract: A wearable motion-signaling bag is provided. The bag includes a housing, one or more straps connected to the housing and shaped to be worn by a user; one or more motion sensors; one or more lights contacting at least one surface of the housing; one or more controls configured to be activated by the user; and a microcontroller operable to execute under programmable control and interfaced to one or more of the sensors, the controls, and the lights, the microcontroller configured to provide signals regarding the motion of the user through the lights based on sensed data from the motion sensors and commands from the capacitive controls. The bag can receive commands from a user device and provide the signals based on the commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Girling Kelly Design Group, LLC
    Inventors: Tucker Jensen Spofford, Benoit Francois Collette, Robert Marcus Girling, Gavin Morris Kelly, Sam Baker, Nicholas James Alto
  • Patent number: 9111085
    Abstract: A system and method for electronic personal identity verification is provided. A user is registered with an authentication service, which includes providing to the service a biometric signature associated with the user and information personally known to the user. Identification data that includes the biometric signature is sent from an identification device worn by the user to a user device associated with the user. An input personally known to the user is received into the user device. Encrypted credentials are sent from the user device to the authentication service. The received encrypted credentials are compared to the biometric signature and the information provided to the authentication service. A claims token is sent from the authentication service to the user device upon the encrypted credentials matching the biometric signature and the information provided to the authentication service. An application is accessed via a third party provider using the claims token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Girling Kelly Design Group, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Amy Darmour, Jeffrey Gelfuso, Robert Marcus Girling, Shyam Sujeewa Habarakada
  • Patent number: 6507858
    Abstract: Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections in an index structure. The binder document sections can be removed from the binder file and stored as external files, while their order in the binder document is retained. The index structure is updated when additional binder document sections are added to the binder file. Also, the index structure may be altered so as to change the order of binder document sections in the binder document, without altering the memory locations in which the binder document sections are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Heikki J. Kanerva, Srinivasa R. Koppolu, Richard J. Wolf, Robert Marcus Girling
  • Patent number: 6470363
    Abstract: Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections and the native file format of each section. The ordered sections can be viewed and edited through a viewport of a frame displayed by a binder program module. The binder program module can also dispatch the underlying application program modules that created each binder document section to spell check and grammar check the binder document sections as a single data processing task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Heikki J. Kanerva, Srinivasa R. Koppolu, Richard J. Wolf, Robert Marcus Girling
  • Patent number: 6393441
    Abstract: Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections and the native file format of each section. The binder program module can dispatch the underlying application program modules that created each binder document section to print the binder document sections as a single uninterrupted print job. In this manner, selected sections of a binder document can be printed as a single consecutively printed document without having other print jobs interrupting or intervening between printed sections of the binder document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Heikki J. Kanerva, Srinivasa R. Koppolu, Richard J. Wolf, Robert Marcus Girling
  • Patent number: 6092067
    Abstract: A system for selectively recording a data structure where one or more external program modules are registered. A group of important actions is selected corresponding to both internal program modules and registered external program modules. The system determines if an action associated with one of the internal program modules or one of the registered external program modules has occurred. If so, the system determines if the action is one of the important actions. If the action is an important action, then information associated with the important action is placed into data fields of a data structure. The data structure containing the information is stored in computer memory. The data structure is maintained within a central container or folder in memory, along with previously recorded data structures. The data structure can be automatically deleted after a predetermined threshold of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Marcus Girling, Jennifer Ruth Mead, Nicholas Paul Duane, Se-Wai Lee, David John Brennan, Eric Van Doren, Michael Gene Leu
  • Patent number: 6026416
    Abstract: Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections and the native file format of each section. The ordered sections can be viewed and edited through a viewport of a frame displayed by a binder program module. By selecting graphical images displayed in a selection area of the frame the content of a binder document section can be viewed and edited without viewing the content of other binder document sections. The graphical images can be icons or graphical images derived from the content of sections called thumbnail images. A thumbnail image can be derived from either the first page or from multiple pages of an individual section. The binder program module can also dispatch the underlying application program modules that created each binder document section to print, spell check, and grammar check the binder document sections as a single data processing task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: MicroSoft Corp.
    Inventors: Heikki J. Kanerva, Srinivasa R. Koppolu, Richard J. Wolf, Robert Marcus Girling