Patents by Inventor Stan Dale Pennington

Stan Dale Pennington 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).

  • Compliance interface for compliant applications
    Patent number: 8230451
    Abstract: A compliance interface is disclosed that takes in queries from applications which may want to know if they are compliant with associated polices stored on a computing system. The interface can then interpret these queries and provide notifications and instructions to the applications. Notifications may give notice of how a policy may impact an application, and instructions may tell an application how to behave in order to stay compliant with the policies. In one aspect, the interface exposes policies set forth by parents. Via a management control panel, parents can set or alter various policies, stored in a settings store, to protect children from contact with undesirable content. The interface interprets these policies to ensure that applications, such as those provided by third party vendors, are compliant with the wishes set forth in the parents' policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Culbreth, Keumars A. Ahdieh, II, Peter M. Wiest, Roderick M. Toll, Roger H. Wynn, Stan Dale Pennington, Timothy Arthur Gill
  • COMPLIANCE INTERFACE FOR COMPLIANT APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20100333117
    Abstract: A compliance interface is disclosed that takes in queries from applications which may want to know if they are compliant with associated polices stored on a computing system. The interface can then interpret these queries and provide notifications and instructions to the applications. Notifications may give notice of how a policy may impact an application, and instructions may tell an application how to behave in order to stay compliant with the policies. In one aspect, the interface exposes policies set forth by parents. Via a management control panel, parents can set or alter various policies, stored in a settings store, to protect children from contact with undesirable content. The interface interprets these policies to ensure that applications, such as those provided by third party vendors, are compliant with the wishes set forth in the parents' policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron Culbreth, Keumars A. Ahdieh, II, Peter M. Wiest, Roderick M. Toll, Roger H. Wynn, Stan Dale Pennington, Timothy Arthur Gill
  • Compliance interface for compliant applications
    Patent number: 7802267
    Abstract: A compliance interface is disclosed that takes in queries from applications which may want to know if they are compliant with associated polices stored on a computing system. The interface can then interpret these queries and provide notifications and instructions to the applications. Notifications may give notice of how a policy may impact an application, and instructions may tell an application how to behave in order to stay compliant with the policies. In one aspect, the interface exposes policies set forth by parents. Via a management control panel, parents can set or alter various policies, stored in a settings store, to protect children from contact with undesirable content. The interface interprets these policies to ensure that applications, such as those provided by third party vendors, are compliant with the wishes set forth in the parents' policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Culbreth, Keumars A. Ahdieh, II, Peter M. Wiest, Roderick M. Toll, Roger H. Wynn, Stan Dale Pennington, Timothy Arthur Gill