Patents by Inventor Stephen P. DiAcetis

Stephen P. DiAcetis 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: 9129089
    Abstract: A digital rights management license provides access to a decryption key that can be used to decrypt an encrypted digital content item. The digital rights management license also includes a policy that defines circumstances in which the decryption key is allowed to decrypt encrypted content data for the purpose of creating a persistently-unencrypted version of the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen P. DiAcetis
  • Patent number: 9125022
    Abstract: Embodiments infer position information using captured content items. A computing device such as a mobile computing or a cloud service analyzes one or more content items to generate information describing the content items. For content items that include photographs, for example, the photographs are processed to identify faces, objects, places, text, etc. The generated information is compared to reference content items (e.g., image comparison), user data (e.g., calendar data, contact information, etc.), and/or public data (e.g., address information, event information, etc.) to identify at least one match. Location information associated with the matched reference content items, user data, and/or public data is obtained. A position is determined for the content items based on the location information obtained from the matched reference content item, user data, and/or public data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen P. DiAcetis, Jyh-Han Lin
  • Publication number: 20150245180
    Abstract: The description relates to mobile device location. One example can access stored survey data relating to a venue. The stored survey data can include internal data from inside the venue and external data from outside the venue. The example can obtain current sensing data at a location proximate to the venue. The example can determine whether the location is inside the venue or outside the venue by comparing the stored survey data and the current sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jyh-Han LIN, Chih-Wei WANG, Stephen P. DiAcetis
  • Patent number: 8756433
    Abstract: A content license associated with unencrypted digital content is generated, the content license including both an identifier of the unencrypted digital content and a content policy. At a user device, a determination is made as to whether the content license corresponds to particular unencrypted digital content. Use of the particular unencrypted digital content by the computing device is permitted in accordance with the content policy if the content license corresponds to the particular unencrypted digital content. However, use of the particular unencrypted digital content by the computing device based on the content license is prohibited if the content license does not correspond to the particular unencrypted digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark E. Paley, Stephen P. DiAcetis, Clifford P. Strom, Kedarnath A. Dubhashi
  • Publication number: 20130342401
    Abstract: Embodiments adjust device error radiuses associated with inferred device positions produced by positioning systems. Inferred beacon positions and associated beacon radiuses are accessed for beacons in a beacon fingerprint from an observing computing device. The beacon radiuses are associated with a pre-defined confidence level (e.g., an in-circle percentage). A Kalman filter is applied to at least one of the beacons using the inferred beacon positions and the beacon radiuses associated therewith to infer a device position for the computing device and to compute a device error radius for the inferred device position. The computed device error radius is adjusted as a function of the quantity of beacons input to the Kalman filter to achieve the pre-defined confidence level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jyh-Han Lin, Yong Song, Stephen P. DiAcetis, Julia Maureen Letchner
  • Publication number: 20130143603
    Abstract: Embodiments infer position information using captured content items. A computing device such as a mobile computing or a cloud service analyzes one or more content items to generate information describing the content items. For content items that include photographs, for example, the photographs are processed to identify faces, objects, places, text, etc. The generated information is compared to reference content items (e.g., image comparison), user data (e.g., calendar data, contact information, etc.), and/or public data (e.g., address information, event information, etc.) to identify at least one match. Location information associated with the matched reference content items, user data, and/or public data is obtained. A position is determined for the content items based on the location information obtained from the matched reference content item, user data, and/or public data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen P. DiAcetis, Jyh-Han Lin
  • Publication number: 20110173454
    Abstract: A content license associated with unencrypted digital content is generated, the content license including both an identifier of the unencrypted digital content and a content policy. At a user device, a determination is made as to whether the content license corresponds to particular unencrypted digital content. Use of the particular unencrypted digital content by the computing device is permitted in accordance with the content policy if the content license corresponds to the particular unencrypted digital content. However, use of the particular unencrypted digital content by the computing device based on the content license is prohibited if the content license does not correspond to the particular unencrypted digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark E. Paley, Stephen P. DiAcetis, Clifford P. Strom, Kedarnath A. Dubhashi
  • Publication number: 20110167499
    Abstract: This document describes policies for digital rights management that enable distribution of full-function versions of applications that, while fully functional, have functions limited by an associated policy. A policy may be replaced or updated, thereby enabling use of previously limited functions without distribution of another version of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Clifford P. Strom, Stephen P. DiAcetis, Mark E. Paley
  • Patent number: 7805375
    Abstract: A digital license is migrated from a source platform to a target platform. At the source platform, a migration image is produced to include the license and corresponding data therein, and the license is deleted from such source platform. At the target platform, permission is requested from a centralized migration service to migrate the license in the migration image to the target platform. The migration service determines whether to permit migration of the license based on predetermined migration policy. Upon receiving the requested permission as a response from the migration service, the migration image is applied to the target platform by un-tying the license from the source platform and re-tying the license to the target platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Fox, Clifford P. Strom, Matthew J. Bordenet, Michael Y. Siu, Stephen P. DiAcetis
  • Publication number: 20100191969
    Abstract: A digital rights management license provides access to a decryption key that can be used to decrypt an encrypted digital content item. The digital rights management license also includes a policy that defines circumstances in which the decryption key is allowed to decrypt encrypted content data for the purpose of creating a persistently-unencrypted version of the content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Stephen P. DiAcetis