Patents by Inventor Robert N. Pulliam, JR.

Robert N. Pulliam, JR. 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: 20120011014
    Abstract: Media purchase techniques are described. In an implementation, an indication is received that an item of media was successfully purchased through a single transaction that includes rights for access to the item of media in different forms that are optimized, respectively, for different classes of computing devices. Responsive to the receipt of the indication, the item of media is permitted to be streamed to at least one of the computing devices to enable output of the item of media for playback as the item of media is streamed and storage of the item of media to local storage of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott D. Stacey, Praveen Kumar Vemparala, Geir O. Martinsen, Robert N. Pulliam, JR., Uchechukwu U. Adegbite, Mark D. Schwesinger, August W. Hill, Zachariah G. Johnson