Patents by Inventor Steve James Pearce

Steve James Pearce 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: 20160170970
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor and a memory comprising code that, when executed on the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to receive an input user setting relating to relative volumes of the speech data in a preferred language and speech data in a non-preferred language when the speech data is played-out; and cause play-out of received speech data so that the volume of the played-out speech data is set in dependence on the user input and whether the received speech data is in the preferred language or the non-preferred language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jonas Nils Lindblom, Steve James Pearce, Christian Wendt
  • Patent number: 9350943
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: receiving at a first device a first video; receiving at the first device an indication that the first video was selected by a user of a second device from a set of pre-recorded videos; and causing the first video to be displayed, via a display, in conjunction with an indication that the first video was selected by the user of the second device from a set of pre-recorded videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James E. Pycock, Daniel James Chastney, Steve James Pearce, Amy Jiyun Kim, Soramist Chintanamanus, Antonio Pedro Pernambuco Rezende, Stephanie Mary McNee, Eldar A. Markov
  • Publication number: 20160080689
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: receiving at a first device a first video; receiving at the first device an indication that the first video was selected by a user of a second device from a set of pre-recorded videos; and causing the first video to be displayed, via a display, in conjunction with an indication that the first video was selected by the user of the second device from a set of pre-recorded videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: James E. Pycock, Daniel James Chastney, Steve James Pearce, Amy Jiyun Kim, Soramist Chintanamanus, Antonio Pedro Pernambuco Rezende, Stephanie Mary McNee, Eldar A. Markov
  • Publication number: 20150281157
    Abstract: A method implemented during a communication event between a plurality of user devices over a communication network, the method comprising: identifying a first co-operating element in a first message transmitted from one of said user devices; identifying a second co-operating element in a second message transmitted from one of said user devices; querying a memory to identify an action associated with the combination of the first and at least the second co-operating element; and transmitting a message to each of the plurality of user devices to cause delivery of the action using output means at the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Steve James Pearce, Mark Robert Swift, Soramist Chintanamanus
  • Patent number: D734344
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher James Clare, Baljinder Pal Rayit, Antonio Pedro Pernambuco Rezende, Lyra Xharra Loxha, Steve James Pearce, James Paul Faris