Patents by Inventor Stephen C. Rowe
Stephen C. Rowe 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).
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Publication number: 20230205659Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for leveraging telemetry data representing usage of a component installed on a group of sampled computing devices to confidently infer the quality of a user experience and/or the behavior of the component (e.g., an operating system) on a larger group of unsampled computing devices. The system is configured to use a propensity score matching approach to identify a sampled computing device that best represents an unsampled computing device using configuration data that is collected from both the sampled and unsampled computing devices. The quality of the user experience and/or the behavior of the component may be captured by a metric of interest (e.g., a QoS value). Accordingly, the system is configured to use the known metric of interest, determined from the telemetry data collected for the sampled computing device, to determine or predict the metric of interest for the unsampled computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Connie YANG, Eamon Guthrie Cosgrove MILLMAN, Xiaoyu CHAI, Soheil SADEGHI, Omari CARTER-THORPE, Igor Borisov PEEV, Steven Marcel Elza WILSSENS, Tomas Aleksas MERECKIS, Alexander S. WEIL, Stephen C. ROWE
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Patent number: 9563487Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to describe, independent of a programming language, one or more interfaces associated with an operating system. Alternately or additionally, a compiler associated with a specific programming language can be configured to map the independent interface description(s) to the specific programming language. In some embodiments, an application can be configured to programmatically determine one or more interfaces of the operating system.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.Inventors: Brent E. Rector, Elliot H. Omiya, Jerry J. Dunietz, Martyn S. Lovell, Ales Holecek, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, James F. Springfield, Noel R. Cross, Tassaduq H. Basu, Patrick H. Dussud, Raja Krishnaswamy, Steven Edward Lucco
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Patent number: 9043305Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Lawrence W. Osterman, Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, Tassaduq H. Basu, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Wei Zeng, Neeraj N. Wadhwa, Shakeel I. Solkar, Michael Aksionkin
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Publication number: 20150074128Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Lawrence W. Osterman, Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, Tassaduq H. Basu, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Wei Zeng, Neeraj N. Wadhwa, Shakeel I. Solkar, Michael Aksionkin
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Patent number: 8914350Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lawrence W. Osterman, Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, Tassaduq H. Basu, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Wei Zeng, Neeraj N. Wadhwa, Shakeel I. Solkar, Michael Aksionkin
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Publication number: 20140325534Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to describe, independent of a programming language, one or more interfaces associated with an operating system. Alternately or additionally, a compiler associated with a specific programming language can be configured to map the independent interface description(s) to the specific programming language. In some embodiments, an application can be configured to programmatically determine one or more interfaces of the operating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Brent E. Rector, Elliot H. Omiya, Jerry J. Dunietz, Martyn S. Lovell, Ales Holecek, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, James F. Springfield, Noel R. Cross, Tassaduq H. Basu, Patrick H. Dussud, Raja Krishnaswamy, Steven Edward Lucco
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Patent number: 8776094Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to describe, independent of a programming language, one or more interfaces associated with an operating system. Alternately or additionally, a compiler associated with a specific programming language can be configured to map the independent interface description(s) to the specific programming language. In some embodiments, an application can be configured to programmatically determine one or more interfaces of the operating system.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brent E. Rector, Elliot H. Omiya, Jerry J. Dunietz, Martyn S. Lovell, Ales Holecek, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, James F. Springfield, Noel R. Cross, Tassaduq H. Basu, Patrick H. Dussud, Raja Krishnaswamy, Steven Edward Lucco
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Publication number: 20140149437Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lawrence W. Osterman, Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, Tassaduq H. Basu, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Wei Zeng, Neeraj N. Wadhwa, Shakeel I. Solkar, Michael Aksionkin
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Patent number: 8700730Abstract: Disparate devices in an audio/video ecosystem may be connected and managed by having multiple crossbar connections at nodes in a node and leaf network. The leaves of the network may be various audio and video devices, with receivers, personal computers, and other devices comprising the nodes, which have at least some crossbar switching ability. When the nodes are connected, some or all of the devices attached to all of the nodes may be made available at each interface for control and display. Each node may act as a crossbar, allowing a user at each interface to enjoy the services of any device, regardless of the node to which the device is attached.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Stephen C. Rowe
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Patent number: 8433697Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lawrence W. Osterman, Harold L. Pierson, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, Tassaduq H. Basu, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Wei Zeng, Neeraj N. Wadhwa, Shakeel I. Solkar, Michael Aksionkin
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Publication number: 20130066899Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lawrence W. Osterman, Harold L. Pierson, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, Tassaduq H. Basu, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Wei Zeng, Neeraj N. Wadhwa, Shakeel I. Solkar, Michael Aksionkin
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Publication number: 20130042258Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ability to describe, independent of a programming language, one or more interfaces associated with an operating system. Alternately or additionally, a compiler associated with a specific programming language can be configured to map the independent interface description(s) to the specific programming language. In some embodiments, an application can be configured to programmatically determine one or more interfaces of the operating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brent E. Rector, Elliot H. Omiya, Jerry J. Dunietz, Martyn S. Lovell, Ales Holecek, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe, James F. Springfield, Noel R. Cross, Tassaduq H. Basu, Patrick H. Dussud, Raja Krishnaswamy, Steven Edward Lucco
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Patent number: 8031891Abstract: Media may be dynamically rendered by receiving signals from one or more types of sensors sensing in an area, and obtaining from the signals information about one or more locations of furniture, or one or more locations of persons or heads or ears thereof, or identities of one or more persons in common with other data such as time of day, season, or other external metadata. Audio and/or video data may be rendered based on the locations or identities. The identity of a person can be automatically obtained and used to automatically select a rendering profile which is then used to render digital audio and/or video media. A dynamically changing spatial location of a head and/or or ears may be automatically determined and how an audio stream is rendered may be dynamically changed based on the spatial location.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steven J. Ball, Stephen C. Rowe
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Patent number: 7669082Abstract: Techniques for playing a media file in a multimedia application include launching a multimedia application as one process and automatically launching a pipeline of one or more media processing components as one or more isolated processes. In this manner, any untrustworthy components can be executed in an isolated process that is separate from the execution process of the multimedia application, thereby improving fault tolerance and hang resistance.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Inventors: Sumedh N. Barde, Kirt A. Debique, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Patrick N. Nelson, Gurpratap Virdi, Stephen C. Rowe
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Patent number: 7627227Abstract: Described herein is an implementation that facilitates the reverse presentation of an encoded digital media stream. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Glenn F. Evans, Stephen C. Rowe, Robin C. B. Speed, Gary J. Sullivan
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Publication number: 20080256539Abstract: Techniques for playing a media file in a multimedia application include launching a multimedia application as one process and automatically launching a pipeline of one or more media processing components as one or more isolated processes. In this manner, any untrustworthy components can be executed in an isolated process that is separate from the execution process of the multimedia application, thereby improving fault tolerance and hang resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sumedh N. Barde, Kirt A. Debique, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Patrick N. Nelson, Gurpratap Virdi, Stephen C. Rowe
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Patent number: 7259779Abstract: Assessment of de-interlaced video quality is determined automatically by de-interlacing interlaced video content using a reference de-interlacer and a test de-interlacer. The reference de-interlacer produces a result of known quality and the test de-interlacer is one which is being assessed. The result from each de-interlacer is compared to reference video content to derive a signal-to-noise ratio for each relative to the reference video content. The difference in the signal-to-noise ratios is compared against a predefined threshold. If the difference is within the range defined by the threshold, the test de-interlacer is determined to produce an acceptable product.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragos C Avadanei, Stephen C Rowe, Stephen J Estrop, Gary J Sullivan
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Patent number: 7037490Abstract: An apparatus is provided for applying to a surface of mammalian tissue including soft, living tissue an initially fluent material and then activating the material by exposure to an energy source. The material may be a liquid capable of polymerization to a non-fluent state by exposure to actinic light. The device, and methods that may be practiced in association with the device, enable a wide range of medical conditions to be treated including, for example, the application of a barrier to soft tissue to prevent post-surgical adhesions.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Genzyme CorporationInventors: Stephen C. Rowe, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Stephen J. Herman, Vae Sun, Michael F. Lang, George E. Selecman, Frederick F. Ahari
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Patent number: 6960340Abstract: An apparatus is provided for applying to a surface of mammalian tissue including soft, living tissue an initially fluent material and then activating the material by exposure to an energy source. The material may be a liquid capable of polymerization to a non-fluent state by exposure to actinic light. The device, and methods that may be practiced in association with the device, enable a wide range of medical conditions to be treated including, for example, the application of a barrier to soft tissue to prevent post-surgical adhesions.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Focal, IncInventors: Stephen C. Rowe, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Stephen J. Herman, Vae Sun, Michael F. Lang, George E. Selecman, Frederick F. Ahari
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Patent number: 6939557Abstract: The invention features articles for delivery of a biologically active substance, methods for making such articles, and methods for treating an animal using the articles.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Azopax Therapeutics LLCInventors: Stephen C. Rowe, Kalvin Yim, Beadle P. Retnarajan, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Durga Annavajula